Because she is in the process of consideration for the altars, Blessed Ascensión Nicol y Goñi — whose full name is Blessed Maria Ascensión of the Heart of Jesus Nicol y Goñi — is not well-known. But she does appear on the Dominican Order’s supplemental calendar of saints and blesseds, so here’s an introduction. One reason St. John Paul II canonized so many saints was his desire to showcase more modern holiness…
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Because she is in the process of consideration for the altars, Blessed Ascensión Nicol y Goñi — whose full name is Blessed Maria Ascensión of the Heart of Jesus Nicol y Goñi — is not well-known. But she does appear on the Dominican Order’s supplemental calendar of saints and blesseds, so here’s an introduction. One reason St. John Paul II canonized so many saints was his desire to showcase more modern holiness…
