Originally published at National Catholic Register
Hamilton told Australian media that the family had met the late cardinal when he visited Phoenix in December 2021 during a book tour.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney this week credited the apparently miraculous survival of an Arizona toddler to the intercession of Cardinal George Pell.
According to the newspaper The Australian, Archbishop Fisher said at a book event on March 26 that he had learned that an 18-month-old boy had been discharged from a hospital in Phoenix after going 52 minutes without breathing following a fall into a pool.
The boy, named Vincent, “stopped breathing for 52 minutes,” Archbishop Fisher said at the Australian launch of a new biography about Cardinal George Pell at Campion College near Parramatta.
“His parents prayed for the intercession of Cardinal Pell,” he continued. “The boy survived and came off life support free of any damage to brain or lungs or heart. He’s fine now and his doctors are calling it a miracle.”
The boy’s uncle, a Catholic priest, contacted Father Joseph Hamilton, Cardinal Pell’s former secretary in Rome, to ask for prayers during the approximate 10-day hospitalization.
Hamilton told The Australian that the family had met the late cardinal when he
