06/16/2025
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My friend, Catholic singer Danielle Rose, shared this miraculous story. You can read the entire story at babybrian.org. I put a little excerpt below. I’ll include a link in my story and highlights-child loss. Brian would be 43 years old today!
“Brian Thomas Gallagher was born to a faithful Catholic family on a military base at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1982. He lived for less than an hour due to complications during delivery. His parents, Shawn and Mary Pat (Ruhlman) Gallagher, requested baptism from the Catholic chaplain who was notified. Though no baptismal certificate was filed and they did not witness the baptism, it was their explicit desire and request.
Knowing Fort Knox would not be their long-term home, the Gallaghers chose to bury Brian in Highmore, South Dakota, near Shawn’s extended family. In 2019, as they made plans for their eventual burial at the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, SD, they decided to have Brian’s body reinterred there so they could one day be buried beside him.
During the disinterment process, a backhoe tine pierced the original casket. In opening the casket to move Brian’s body to a new casket, the funeral director discovered that his remains showed no signs of decomposition whatsoever—37 years after burial. His body was entirely intact: lifelike in color and form, with supple skin, fully intact facial features, no drying, wrinkling, odor, mold, mildew or disfigurement. His body tolerated gentle handling without skin slippage or hair loss. His blanket and gown were removed, washed, and replaced, and his body was gently cleaned and re-dressed—unthinkable in typical exhumation cases after such time. In the words of the Funeral Director, ‘His body was still flexible for an embalmed infant—enough that we were easily able to remove his clothes to wash them.’”
May this miraculous story bring comfort to all parents who have lost a child from miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss, especially without the Sacrament of Baptism, but had the baptism of desire.
Baby Brian, pray for us!
You are a child of the Risen Lord!