Albert Petrocelli was a Brooklyn fire chief who was a first responder on September 11, 2001. He lost a son that day, Mark, who was in the World Trade Center when it was hit by a hijacked plane. In 2015, Petrocelli met the pope, who blessed Petrocelli’s rosaries and prayer cards in Mark’s memory.
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