Józef Andrasz


Józef Andrasz was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, writer, translator and editor. A member of the Society of Jesuits, he was a confessor of Saint Faustina Kowalska.

Career

Andrasz worked in the Apostleship of Prayer publishing house in Poland. He was responsible for the publication of 41 volumes in the series The Library of the Internal Life. They were mostly translations of great works on asceticism that he had worked on himself. He was also the editor-in-chief of the popular Catholic paper "The Messenger of the Heart if Jesus". He was also national manager of the Apostleship of Prayer and of Catholic Action for Family Consecration -.
While Saint Faustina Kowalska stayed with her order in Kraków, he became her confessor. She mentioned Andrasz many times in her Diary in terms such as follow:

Initiation of Divine Mercy

In 1943 Andrasz initiated public devotion to the Divine Mercy in the Divine Mercy Sanctuary. The same year, under his direction, a popular version of the Image of Divine Mercy since exhibited in the sanctuary, was painted by Adolf Hyła.