The cause of martyrs such as John Ogilvie lay dormant for many years until revived at the close of the 19 th Century and a process of investigating extensive historical evidence was opened by the Vatican, paving the way for the beatification of this man from Keith, by Pope Pius XI in 1929. Nothing much happened about the next step towards him being proclaimed a Saint until in the early 1960s the Cause of the English Martyrs, or at least 40 of them, began to revive with the appointment of an energetic young Jesuit, Fr Paolo Molinari, as Postural General in Rome. With his investigations came the possibility of re-opening the Cause of Ogilvie. Scots Jesuits Father James Quinn and Father Thomas Reilly, great supporters of the Ogilvie cause, were appointed to form a National Council composed of priests to investigate what devotion existed in Scotland to John Ogilvie, and armed with a consignment of 300,000 medals the committee set about promoting prayers for his Canonisation. Of course, to pave the way for sainthood a miracle would be needed. Father Reilly and Father John Fitzgibbon ran a large parish in Glasgow’s Easterhouse dedicated to Blessed John Ogilvie, and in their congregation was a docker called John Fagan who in 1965 was diagnosed as having stomach cancer. An operation removed part of his stomach but from X- rays afterwards doctors declared they had done all they could. The cancer cells remained and, they said, the tumour would return, which it did seven months later. It was decided that surgery would kill him. His wife Mary was told: “There is nothing more we can do for your husband. Take him home and be good to him.” His GP noted how the mass in his patient’s abdomen was growing ever bigger. Mr Fagan was in continuous pain. In January, 1967, Father Fitzgibbon administered the Last Rites and he gave a medal of Blessed John Ogilvie to Mrs Fagan, suggesting she pin it to her husband’s pyjamas. Parishioners prayed to Blessed John for him. In March, John Fagan was said to be hours away from death and the GP declared there was nothing more he could do. He expected to return the next day to sign the death certificate. The Legion of Mary and neighbours joined the Fagan family at the bedside to pray. After they had gone, Mrs Fagan kept a quiet vigil as John slipped in and out of consciousness. At six in the morning she woke and felt the room cold. She checked her husband’s pulse and heartbeat, there was neither. She slumped in her chair, heads in her hands, and dozed off. She was woken by a voice declaring “Mary, I’m hungry” . It took five years of intensive medical investigations, checking of all hospital and medical records, and examinations by the Church in Scotland and in Rome before it was officially confirmed that there was no natural explanation for John Fagan’s recovery. In October, 1975, the Congregation of Cardinals in Rome accepted that a miracle had taken place and in May, 1976, approval came for the Blessed John Ogilvie to be made a Saint.