Overview

• On June 20, 2025, Pope Leo XIV formally declared the January 2007 recovery of Tyquan Hall a miracle, marking the first such approval of his pontificate.
• The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and diocesan officials conducted a two-phase inquiry from 2014 through June 2025 to vet the unexplained event.
• Physician Dr. Juan Sánchez-Esteban invoked the intercession of 19th-century priest Father Salvador Valera Parra, after which the newborn’s heartbeat returned spontaneously.
• Despite being born without a pulse and facing severe health risks, Tyquan Hall met normal developmental milestones and experienced no lasting impairments.
• With this recognition, Father Valera Parra’s cause for beatification advances, pending a second confirmed miracle required for canonization.