A Boston restaurant owner said she feels lucky after a pile of bricks fell from the fourth floor of her building Sunday morning — narrowly missing her as she returned from church.

"It was a miracle," said Claudia Spagnuolo, who owns La Famiglia Spagnuolo on Hanover Street in the North End. She told NBC10 Boston she'd just gotten a blessing from her priest when she heard a crash.

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"I crossed the street and I thought it was a car accident until a guy grabbed me, and when I went back, I looked up and it was my building!" Spagnuolo recalled.

Pieces of the building's façade broke off, striking the restaurant's sign and a nearby car, police said.

Spagnuolo believes the recent stretch of wet weather may have contributed

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