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13-year-old Filipina who loved the Eucharist begins official path to sainthood

April 10, 2024

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CWN Editor's Note: The diocesan phase of the canonization cause of the Servant of God Niña Ruíz-Abad was inaugurated on April 7 at the cathedral in Laoag City, Philippines.

Ruíz-Abad, known for her devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and died of a heart attack in 1993 at the age of 13.

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