US President Joe Biden changed into moved to tears after a risk assembly with the priest who accomplished the closing rites for his son Beau Biden who died of mind most cancers in 2015. Father Frank O`Grady met Joe Biden because the US President toured Knock shrine in Co Mayo as a part of his very last day of engagements in Ireland.
The parish priest of Knock, Father Richard Gibbons, stated as in line with The Independent that the president changed into delivered to tears whilst he met the priest.
“He laughed, he cried, it simply sort of hit the man, you may simply see how deeply all of it felt and supposed to him. It changed into an top notch afternoon. I won`t overlook it, I can let you know that it changed into pretty some thing else,” Father Richard Gibbons stated.
Father Richard Gibbons stated that he changed into now no longer conscious that one of the monks withinside the parish had a private connection to the president.
“He spoke approximately his own circle of relatives and his connection together along with his faith, and additionally approximately his son Beau who died. And it simply so passed off, and this changed into sort of spontaneous, it simply so passed off that we have, operating on the shrine here, the chaplain who offers the closing rites, the closing anointing to his son withinside the United States,” Father Richard Gibbons stated.
“Just top notch, and I didn`t even recognise that, I didn`t recognise that till the president arrived,” Father Richard Gibbons stated on mastering of the connection.
“So he dispatched a Secret Service agent to move and discover him, I had his range so I contacted him immediately. And he were given the surprise of his existence to return back over you recognise, in order that changed into a wonderful, spontaneous element that passed off,” he added.
