MARGARET SINCLAIR, VIRGIN

MARGARET SINCLAIR, VIRGIN - 24 NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 24th of November

VENERABLE MARGARET SINCLAIR, VIRGIN

Margaret Sinclair was born in the Edinburgh's Cowgate in 1900, one of six children who grew up in poverty in a two room basement. Her father was a dustman. Margaret left school at 14, whereupon she worked as a French polisher and became a trade union activist.

In 1923 she entered a Convent of the Order of Poor Clares in London, becoming Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, where she helped the poor before dying of tuberculosis in 1925. She now lies in rest in her home parish of St Patrick's in the Cowgate.

"Margaret Sinclair is a wonderful example of an ordinary Scottish woman, close to our time, who lived the Gospel in the everyday, in a poor family home in Edinburgh, at school, in St Patrick's parish, in the world of industry and in the convent," said Monsignor Peter Smith of the Archdiocese of Glasgow.

In 1978 Pope Paul VI declared Margaret Sinclair to be "Venerable"

Information from:

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/35398/priest-attributes-miraculous-healing-to-venerable-margaret-sinclair

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