The cause for the sainthood of Niña Ruiz Abad of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, is part of a wider effort to proclaim modern-day Filipino saints, models for Catholics in the 21st century.
Father Danny Pajarillaga, then a 29-year-old Catholic priest, recalled the first time he met a girl named Niña Ruiz Abad in 1993. Pajarillaga was serving in his first parish, Jesus Lord of Divine Mercy in Mapayapa Village 1, Quezon City, and he took notice of Abad, the child of a Catholic lawyer who was a devotee of the Divine Mercy.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has opened the long road to sainthood for the Ilocano girl who died of an incurable heart disease in 1993, reported the news service of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday evening, July 19. Once all the requirements have been fulfilled, the Catholic Church “canonizes” the person, which means he or she is included in the “canon” or roster of acknowledged saints. Canonization means the person can already be considered a model for the world’s nearly 1.4 billion Catholics, and the new saint can pray to God for the living.Abad, who was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at 10 years old, is remembered for her strong faith despite her illness.
“Niña’s life was a prayerful life full of reverence, worship, and intimate relationship with God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and to the Blessed Virgin Mary,” he added. Born on October 31, 1979, at Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City, she was baptized at Santo Domingo Church on March 15, 1980. CBCP News said Abad was the child of a lawyer couple from Sarrat, but her father died when she was three.
A witness to their life in Quezon City, Pajarillaga said Abad’s mother, fondly called “Attorney Abad” in their parish, “was an avid devotee of the Divine Mercy, a woman of few words but full of works of charity.”
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