A three-month-old baby has defied the odds and made a miraculous recovery from a life-threatening heart condition – after her father placed a relic on her bed.

Caitlin Dooley was born on May 12 and was put on life support for 25 days as she struggled to stay alive.

When her heart function dripped to a low of 33 per cent her parents Kieran and Sandra, from Ireland, feared her only hope was a transplant.

Then “something clicked” and she started to make an amazing recovery.

Her father now says her dramatic turn around coincided with Padre Pio’s relic being put in her hospital bed.