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Margaret Sinclair was declared "Venerable" by the Catholic Church in 1978, two steps away from sainthood, but since then her cause for canonization has largely stalled.
Now Archbishop Leo Cushley, of the St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese, has started a new campaign to have Margaret, a one-time trade unionist, declared "Blessed" and then "Saint".
However, one ratified miracle is needed before she can be beatified and a second is required for the Pope to declare her a saint.
A miracle is said to prove that a person is in heaven and thus able to intercede with God on behalf of those seeking help on Earth.
Archbishop Cushley has appointed Father Joseph McAuley, a parish priest in Cumbernauld, to spearhead the campaign.
He said: "As my delegate Father McAuley will be working closely with me to promote Margaret's cause and to spread the message of this fascinating young woman.
"Margaret led an exemplary life as a lay person, who was very much a modern woman, a woman of her times, and who was also an exemplary religious sister albeit briefly before she died at the age of 25".
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No ratified miracle necessary. Sometimes you come across someone that is so genuinely wonderful that it's a flat out miracle that these people even exist at all.
Not that my voice counts in the above matter but still.