Twins delivered by priest are thriving; ‘he saved my boys,’ father says

Father Jesús Mariscal, parochial vicar at St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Wash., poses July 9, 2024, with the twins he delivered in Sept. 2, 2023, outside the cathedral. As Father Mariscal was leaving the rectory, on his way to purchase doughnuts for a marriage preparation meeting, he saw a pregnant woman in distress in front of a statue of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception. (OSV News photo/Catholic Extension)

Last November, the Catholic Extension Society shared the heart-warming story about a priest who delivered twin babies outside St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Washington. A year later the twin boys are thriving.
As Father Jesús Mariscal was leaving the rectory on his way to purchase doughnuts for a marriage preparation meeting, he saw a woman in distress in front of a statue of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception.
She cried out to him, “I need help! I’m having a baby!”
He called 911, and through the guidance of the emergency operator, he delivered not one, but, to his complete shock, two baby boys. The second child was not breathing when he was born, and Father Mariscal resuscitated him.


The woman and twin boys were taken to the hospital. Father Mariscal was able to visit them at the hospital. The mother left the hospital a few hours after being admitted.

Grateful father raises twin boys​

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