Faustina is the name of several prominent women in history. Two notable women of the Roman Empire, a mother and daughter, both wives of emperors, were named Annia Galeria Faustina, and are normally distinguished as "elder" and "younger":
Saint Faustina, Painted 'The Divine Mercy', Nun of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland
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125/130 - 175) was the younger daughter of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder, wife of his successor Marcus Aurelius, and mother of twins Commodus and Antoninus, and Lucilla.
Faustina went with Aurelius on his campaign to the north (170-174) and then to the East, where she died (175).
Aurelius consecrated her and founded a new alimenta (charity) in her name: the second Puellae Faustinianae (a first one of that name was founded by Antoninus Pius in rememberance of Faustina the Elder).
She died in 175 or 176 (so Clinton, Fasti rom.) at Halala, near Mount Taurus, in Cappadocia, whither she had accompanied Aurelius.
Charitable schools for orphan girls (hence called Faustinianae) were founded in her honor, like those established by her father Antoninus in honor of his wife, the elder Faustina.
Her statue was placed in the temple of Venus, and she was numbered among the tutelary deities of Rome.
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