Pope Leo XIV approves a miracle involving a baby born in 2007 in Rhode Island and puts 19th century Spanish priest Father Salvador Valera Parra on a path to potential sainthood. Valera Parra was a

Pope Leo XIV declared the 2007 recovery of an ailing premature baby at a Rhode Island hospital a miracle, crediting a physician’s prayer with saving the baby’s life, the Vatican announced. Little Tyquan Hall,

The official decree signed on June 20 said that a baby born in 2007 was inexplicably healed after a doctor prayed to a 19th century Spanish priest, Father Salvador Valera Parra.