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Elizabeth Prout (pictured) has been approved by the Pope for the title of venerable
A Victorian nun known as the Mother Teresa of Manchester is on course to become Britain s second saint of modern times as the Pope approves her for the title of venerable .
Elizabeth Prout, who died 155 years ago, has been hailed by Vatican theologians as a figure who lived a life of heroic virtue .
Now the nun has taken another key step on the road to canonisation, as a Vatican bulletin announced yesterday that the Pope had approved Mother Elizabeth for the title of venerable .
She is remembered as an activist who opened a chain of schools for poor children and homes for destitute women across the industrialised North West, and is considered to have been ahead of her time in teaching women skills to earn their own living.