'It really affected him': US President Joe Biden broke down in tears after a chance meeting with the priest who performed the last rites on his son Beau.
Father Frank O'Grady performed his last rites.US President Joe Biden broke down in tears on Friday after a chance meeting at an Irish church with the priest who performed the last rites on his son Beau, a priest who accompanied Mr Biden during the visit said.
A plaque to US President Biden's late son Beau, is seen outside Mayo Roscommon Hospice and Palliative Care Center, in Ireland, on 14 April 2023.Father Richard Gibbons, who led Mr Biden on a tour of the Catholic shrine of Knock, said he had not known that one of his colleagues, ex-US Army chaplain Father Frank O'Grady, had performed the sacrament until the president arrived.Mr Biden has often said that Beau, a former Delaware attorney general, should be president instead of him.
"He laughed, he cried and it just kind of hit the man. You could just see how deeply it all felt and meant to him. It was an extraordinary afternoon." Mr O'Grady, an Irish priest who worked at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington DC, described his 10-minute meeting with Mr Biden, his son Hunter and the president's sister Valerie as a "nice chat."
"He was delighted to see me and I was delighted to see him. He gave me a big hug. Hunter gave me a big hug. It was like a reunion," Mr O'Grady told Irish state broadcaster RTE."His faith sustained him in the past at that difficult time and still does," Mr O'Grady said.Mr Biden, who is wrapping up a three-day trip to Ireland, later visited a nearby County Mayo hospice where he broke ground ahead of its construction in 2017.
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