Two bombs exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013, killing three people — one of them an 8-year-old boy — and wounding more than 130 others. Pandemonium erupted as spectators scattered and doctors on hand to treat runners jumped in to help people with battlefield-type injuries, including severed limbs. Nearly two-thirds of the 23,000 competitors had already completed the run, meaning several thousand were still on the course.
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Dear Mary, Queen of Angels,
send all of your protection to those in Boston today,
to the innocent, and full healing to all involved in this tragedy!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you!
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