Working Girl :
March 29th, 1900 - Born Edinburgh. daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Sinclair. one of a family of nine children.
April 11th, 1900 - Baptised Margaret Anne, at Church of St. Patrick, Edinburgh.
August, 1906 - At St. Anne's School, Edinburgh, under the care of the Sisters of Mercy.

May 8th, 1910 - Received first holy communion; confirmed same day at St. Patrick's. Daily communicant. Proud to wear badge of Handmaids of Blessed Sacrament.
August, 1914 - Began work as an apprentice french polisher. Skilled at her trade. Member:Sodality of Children of Mary. Trades Union member. Gained certificates in sewing, cooking. dressmaking. Atholl Crescent School of Domestic Economy. Worked in McVittie's Biscuit Factory.
July 22nd, 1923 - Entered Convent of Poor Clares Colettines. Notting Hill. London.
February 11th, 1924 - Received the habit as an Extern Sister: Sister Mary Frances of the Five Wounds. 

February 14th, 1925 - Religious Profession. For Margaret- "A heavenly experience."
April 9th. 1925 - Entered Warley Sanatorium, Essex, suffering from tuberculosis of the throat. Nursed by Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
November 24th, 1925 - Margaret died after a prolonged and painful illness. Buried "under a white veil of snow", Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

Servant of God :
December 22nd, 1927 - Remains of the Servant of God re-interred in marble tomb, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Edinburgh.
August, 1931 - Informative Process, Edinburgh, under presidency of Archbishop McDonald.
February 3rd, 1942 - Cause introduced to Sacred Congregation of Rites by Pope Pius XII. Margaret becomes "The Servant of God".
August lSth, 19S2 - Archbishop Gray presldes over Apostolic Process, Edinburgh, in presence of officials from Rome. Tribunal closes, 13th October, 19S2.
June 29th, 1965 - 0pening of National Margaret Sinclair Centre, Rosewell, Midlothian.
February 6th, 1978 - Pope Paul VI declares that Margaret practised the Christian virtues to a heroic degree. She is given the title:"The Venerable Margaret Sinclair".
October 25th, 2003 - Church of St. Patrick, Edinburgh. The Papal Nuncio blessed and dedicated the new shrine of the Venerable Margaret Sinclair, where Her remains have been entombed.

The devout and generous life of Sister Mary Frances of the Five Wounds, otherwise known as Margaret Sinclair, an extern sister in the Order of the Poor Clares, provides a striking contemporary example of evangelical heroism, not only for her sisters in religion but for ali the faithful whatever their state in life.
Whether we consider her in family life, or in school, as an ordinary working girl or as a sister in a Poor Clare convent, or finally as a patient in the sanatorium where she died, we are presented with a spectacle of outstanding holiness.
In the presence of the cardinals and others concerned, the Supreme Pontiff solemnly decreed that the Servant of God had in fact practised to a heroic degree the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and also the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, with other related virtues.
(From Decree of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints. 6th February, 1978.)

"l fully appreciate the aspirations of the Catholics of Scotland, and elsewhere, for that singular event to be realised, and I know that you are praying that it may come about."
(POPE JOHN PAUL II, Rosewell, lst June. 1982.)

O Lord Jesus Christ. who did endow your lowly and ever cheerful virgin, Margaret Sinclair, with a share in your sufferings and in your zeal for the salvation of men, grant that, through her glorification, we too may arrive at a share in your glory. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer
O God, who in the estimation of men has given us your Servant. Margaret Sinclair, as a model of holiness, especia1ly to youth, in a1l the temptations of modern life and work; grant us the request we make through her intercession as a sign of the favour she enjoys in your sight. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

A Child's Prayer
Margaret Sinclair, God's cheerful Servant on earth, help me to imitate the virtues which made you a great friend of Jesus and his Blessed Mother.
Please grant a sign that you are a saint in heaven by obtaining for me the favour which I now most earnestly request. (Here, te1l Margaret your request.)
Margaret Sinclair. Working Girl-Servant of God, pray for us. Amen.