The boy “suddenly recovered" after a physician invoked a 19th century Spanish priest in prayer, church officials announced.

Pope Leo XIV recently declared the healing a miracle attributable to the intercessory prayer to God by Don Salvador Valera ...

God “continues to work even in our little Ocean State,” said the Rev. Nathan J. Ricci, vice chancellor of the Diocese of ...

The first American pope recognized the miraculous saving of a premature baby at Rhode Island’s Memorial Hospital in 2007.

Following the conclusion of a lengthy investigative process, Pope Leo XIV declared the first miracle of his papacy, citing ...

Pope Leo XIV approves a miracle involving a baby born in 2007 in Rhode Island and puts 19th century Spanish priest Father ...

Pope Leo has declared the medical recovery of a newborn baby a miracle. See what church officials say happened that day in ...

The intercession of Venerable Salvador Valera Parra, a 19th-century Spanish diocesan priest, has been credited by Pope Leo ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, recently declared that a miracle happened in Rhode Island.

Pope Leo XIV declares the 2007 Rhode Island baby's recovery a miracle, crediting physician’s prayer to Father Valera Parra ...

Almost 20 years after he nearly died at birth, a little boy’s arrival at a Rhode Island hospital has been declared a miracle ...

The boy didn’t breathe for over an hour when he was born prematurely at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket on January 14, 2007.