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President Joe Biden has had a chance encounter in Mayo with the priest who performed the last rites on his son Beau who died from brain cancer.During a visit to Knock Shrine, the president met ex-US Army chaplain Fr Frank O'Grady who is now working at the shrine.Fr Richard Gibbons told BBC Radio's Ulster's Evening Extra programme he gave President Biden a tour of the basilica at Knock Shrine and said he spoke about his family, his faith and his son Beau.
"He [President Biden] was crying, it really affected him and then we said a prayer, said a decade of the rosary for his family.Image caption,Knock Shrine is a pilgrimage site for Catholics. In 1879 locals said they saw an apparition of Mary, Joseph, John the Evangelist, angels and an altar with a cross and a lamb .Mr Biden, who is being accompanied by his sister Valerie Biden Owens, has links to the County Mayo through his great grandfather Edward Blewitt.
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