Margaret Sinclair was declared "Venerable" by Pope Paul VI on 6 February 1978, the centenary year of the restoration of Scotland's Roman Catholic hierarchy. The cause for her canonisation has persisted and, on 1 June 1982, Pope John Paul II stated: "Margaret could well be described as one of God's little ones, who through her very simplicity, was touched by God with the strength of real holiness of life, whether as a child, a young woman, an apprentice, a factory worker, a member of a Trade Union or a professed Sister of religion'".