The president spoke to a crowd in his ancestral home of Ballina, Co Mayo, on the steps of a cathedral his great-great-great-grandfather helped build.
The chaplain who performed the sacrament for Beau Biden, now works at the Knock shrine in Co Mayo where the president paid a visit on Friday.Advertisement
"We had a nice chat for about 10 minutes. He was delighted to see me and I was delighted to see him," he said.Mr Biden was given a tour of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock - a Catholic pilgrimage site - by the Parish priest of Knock, Fr Richard Gibbons. After leaving Knock, Mr Biden travelled to Castlebar where he made a private visit to the Mayo Roscommon Hospice.
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