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Pope offers hope Scots nun will be made saint
The Pope has said he will proceed with the beatification of a Scottish biscuit-factory worker if a miracle in her name can be ratified officially.Margaret Sinclair, from Edinburgh, who died of tuberculosis in 1925 aged 25, has had miracles such as making a blind woman see, helping an arthritic patient to walk and saving the life of Jimmy Savile when he was ill aged two, attributed to her.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, has revealed that, during a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, he asked about the possibility of Ms Sinclair being beatified.
• Scotland's Saint in Waiting: Monday, 24 March, BBC Radio Scotland, 11:30am.
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