Divine Mercy Sunday · Yekshanbeh-ye Rahmat-e Elahi

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Australia (national) · Canada (federal) · Christianity · France · Germany (nationwide) · United Kingdom (England and Wales) · United States (federal)

Divine Mercy Sunday is the Second Sunday of Easter, which closes the octave of Easter. The devotion comes from the visions the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska recorded in the 1930s, and Pope John Paul II added the feast to the Catholic calendar in 2000, the year he canonised her. The image of the Divine Mercy, with its rays of red and pale light, is venerated on the day.