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Pope declares baby’s survival at now-closed R.I. hospital a miracle

POPE LEO XIV says a baby's recovery from a premature birth at a Pawtucket hospital in 2007 was a miracle, Rhode Island's first Vatican-approved miracle. AP FILE PHOTO/GREGORIO BORGIA
POPE LEO XIV says a baby's recovery from a premature birth at a Pawtucket hospital in 2007 was a miracle, Rhode Island's first Vatican-approved miracle. AP FILE PHOTO/GREGORIO BORGIA

PROVIDENCE – Pope Leo XIV has deemed that a medical miracle happened in Rhode Island with the survival of an infant born in 2007 attributed to a 19th-century Spanish priest, according to recent report from the Catholic News Agency. It’s the first Vatican-approved miracle in the state. Pope Leo signed the decree on June 20,

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