17 September 2015, The Tablet

175 years – 50 great catholics / Leo Cushley on Margaret Sinclair


 
To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best Tomorrow, people from all across Scotland – and beyond – will gather in St Patrick’s Church in Edinburgh’s Cowgate for the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Venerable Margaret Sinclair.Many will come seeking heavenly favours from Margaret. After all, we need to pray for a miracle to pave the way for her beatification. Even more will come, I suspect, to learn from her earthly example. Born in 1990, Margaret belongs to the modern world – the world of mass industry, the movie theatre and the passing fancies of high-street fashion. Leaving school at 14, she became an aprentice
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