WORK-GIRL AS SAINT
CANONISATION REQUESTED SCOTTISH MISSION TO ROME. Archbishop M'Donald, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St, Andrews and Edinburgh, lately went to Rome in connection with the movement, for the canonisation of Margaret Sinclair, an Edinburgh factory girl, who died of tuberculosis in 1925. , , , Evidence has been taken on oath from several persons as to the girl’s saintliness and as to cures and other mysterious effects which are said to have resulted from her powers of intercession, invoked through prayer. The_ documents were forwarded to the Vatican for examination gome time ago. , Margaret Sinclair was at one time engaged to a young ex-soldier. She broke off the engagement, and after her death the young man came forward to testify to her saintliness. The appeal for the canonisation —inclusion in the church’s list of saipts—is in the hands of a committee of Scottish Roman Catholics, who have charge of, relics of the dead girl. Her life has been translated into various languages, and her pfrave in the Mount Vernon Cemetery in Edinburgh attacts many visitors.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21531, 31 December 1931, Page 8
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