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topicnews · July 19, 2025

Pope Leo XIV explains a miracle in a hospital in Rhode Island, says dying baby was saved by a prayer

Pope Leo XIV explains a miracle in a hospital in Rhode Island, says dying baby was saved by a prayer


Pope Leo XIV explained the recovery of a sick premature baby in a hospital in Rhode Island as a miracle from 2007, which has known the prayer of a doctor with rescue the baby's baby, the Vatican said.

Little Tyquan Hall, which was born over an emergency caesarean section, suffered from oxygen withdrawal, was pale, cyanotic and hardly had a pulse – and the doctors did not expect to survive, according to the diocese of Almeria.

In a desperate request, the doctor Dr. Juan Sanchez, prayed for the miraculous intercession of the patronage of the region, Valera Parra, Valera Parra, Wjar of the region.


Pope Leo XIV. Pool/AFP via Getty Images

A few minutes after the loyal prayer, the child's heart began to beat normally without medical intervention.

Despite the scientifically inexplicable recovery, Tyquan was expected to have serious neurological damage due to the serious lack of oxygen in his first hours of his life.

However, Tyquan grew up strongly and met all of his development milestones – including the speaking at 18 months and 2 years, said Wjar.

The miracle for example declared by Pope Leo shows that Father Valera Parra could be on the way to holiness.

Reverend Timothy Reilly from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence celebrated the official explanation.

“We are pleased that this recognition will move the cause of the sixation and canonization for the venerable servant of God Salvador Valera Parra,” said Reilly in a statement reported by Wjar.


Close up of the feet of a baby.
Although the Little Tyquan Hall had hardly a pulse and oxygen was withdrawn in the first few hours of his life, it became a healthy boy. Seventy o'clock – stile.adobe.com

“The cool thing is, the more you think about the miracle, Father Valera lives in the 19th century. He never came to the USA. We have no knowledge of him that he comes here. I never came to Rhode Island,” said Reilly.

“And yet because the doctor called his name in the situation in the name of this little baby in the situation in the situation, he decided to intervene and ask God for a miracle,” concluded the reverend after the outlet.

Valera Parra lived in Spain from 1816 to 1889. He was a modest diocesan priest who had no miracles or great deeds in his life.

The first American Pope also caused the cause of the first thousand-year-old Holy Preliminary Carlos Acutis, a non-profit British 15-year-old who died of leukemia in 2007 and was exhibited in a glass grave in Assisi, Italy.