A Glasgow priest whose survival of a “flesh-eating bug” is said to have defied medical explanation has attributed his recovery to the intercession of Venerable Margaret Sinclair, an Edinburgh nun who died in 1925.

“For 32 years of priesthood, I’ve been preaching the Resurrection of Christ and this is a sign for me that I am doing something which is true and not wasted,” said Mgr Peter Smith, parish priest of St Paul’s in Whiteinch, in an interview with Flourish, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Glasgow.