'My sister loved to party and turned her life around' - the nun on the way to sainthood

'My sister loved to party and turned her life around' - the nun on the way to sainthood2 days agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleElaine McGeeandGerry Bradley,BBC News NIBBCSr Clare's sister, Shauna Gill, said her family took comfort from the large crowd attending the retreatShe was a self-confessed wild child who ultimately swapped partying for prayer.Clare Crockett's ambition was once for fame and fortune as a Hollywood actress.But she would end up in a totally different role - first a nun and now, 10 years to the day after her death in an earthquake, a would-be saint.Her sister, Shauna Gill, said she "belongs to the world now", as thousands attend a Catholic retreat named after the nun.Home Of The MotherSr Clare Crockett was killed in an earthquake in Ecuador in 2016Sister Clare Crockett was born in Northern Ireland's second city of Londonderry in 1982, a year after Bobby Sands and nine other republican prisoners died on hunger strike and a time of great political upheaval.As a young girl, she witnessed a British soldier being blown up.A mural of Sr Clare is painted in the Brandywell area of Derry to mark the 10th anniversary of her deathBut it was a chance trip to Spain in 2000 that would change her life forever."I thought I was going to Spain to party," she said before her death."I thought we were going to a place called Ibiza."But partying would be replaced by prayer when she ended up at a pilgrimage in a small place called Priego, in the Cuenca region of central Spain.It was there that she described feeling God's presence for the first time - and decided to turn her back on the party scene.On Good Friday in 2000, she kissed the feet of a statue depicting the crucifixion of Jesus."I felt it was my sins that nailed our Lord to the cross and I just started crying," she said.How does someone become a saint?She entered the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother in 2001 at the age of 18 and...