'He was crying, it really affected him, and then we said a prayer, said a decade of the rosary for his family.'
President Joe Biden reacts before a plaque with his son Beau's name as he visits Mayo Roscommon Hospice in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, April 14, 2023.President Biden was moved to tears after meeting the priest who gave his late son the last rites.The president was touring Knock Shrine, a Catholic pilgrimage site.
The chance meeting with Father Frank O'Grady surprised the president, who later said:"It was incredible to see him. It seemed like a sign,"The priest who accompanied Biden on a tour of the Knock Shrine pilgrimage site said the reunion brought the president to tears. President Joe Biden touches part of the original stonework from the apparition gable at the Knock Shrine as Father Richard Gibbons, parish priest of Knock Shrine, holds an umbrella in Knock, Ireland, Friday, April 14, 2023.O'Grady was previously assigned to work at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 aged 46.
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