BELLEROSE — As Janet Miranda lay bleeding on the sidewalk after a fall near her home on Oct. 29, two uniformed first responders arrived to render aid, but they weren’t firefighters or paramedics. Still, Miranda was familiar with their attire. 

These rescuers wore the uniform of St. Gregory the Great Catholic Academy, her home parish’s school, where her daughter and two granddaughters attended.

Christian Fiorillo and Colin Winn — both 13-year-old eighth graders — were on their way home from school when they saw Miranda stumble on 241st Street.

Neither boy had first aid training, but their school and their families had already taught them the values of service and compassion. They used Miranda’s phone to call 911, then scrambled to a nearby deli, where they grabbed napkins for her bloody nose.

“Both boys stayed with me until the ambulance came,” Miranda wrote in an email to the school’s principal, Joseph Paniccia. “They were just wonderful. They are a credit to the school and their families.”

The boys reunited with Miranda on Tuesday, Jan. 7, for a special assembly at the school to receive recognition for their good deed. The event drew their middle school classmates, as well as some distinguished visitors.

Assemblyman David Weprin presented them with certificates of appreciation from the New York Legislature and noted that despite their ages, Colin and Christian “really are heroes.”

“If every student in the state of New York would do something like this on a daily basis, we would end a lot of problems,” the assemblyman said.

Before the event started, Miranda described the Oct. 29 spill that put her on the ground with a bloody nose and injured shoulder.

“I was about four houses from home,” she recalled. “The sidewalk was raised just a little bit — maybe an inch — and I tripped on it. I went face down. I broke my nose, and I tore my shoulder. It was just a mess.”

Miranda added that her nose “bled profusely.”

“I didn’t see any people around on the street, which is kind of terrifying,” she said. “But then, out of nowhere, these two kids came up from behind, and they just took over.”

Colin and Christian, buddies since nursery school at St. Gregory the Great, helped Miranda call 911 and then her daughter. Next, they ran around the corner to Jason’s Deli on Braddock Street, where they grabbed napkins to help staunch the bleeding. They stayed with Miranda until an ambulance arrived.

“I mean,” she added, “how do such little kids think to do this?”

An explanation came from Deacon Kevin McCormack, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Brooklyn.

“The reason St. Greg’s exists,” Deacon McCormack said, “is because parents and clergy and teachers and staff and our principal and our bishop have all said we want to be a place in which we can foster the ability for people to basically do the right thing.”

“You two guys didn’t say, ‘Oh, here’s an opportunity for us to be really great heroes.’ You said, ‘Oh my God, there’s a need. Let’s get it done,’ ” he explained. “I have no doubt in my mind that all of the students here would have reacted the very same way.”

Accompanying Miranda at the assembly were her daughter Kristin Reilly and granddaughter Maggie Reilly.

Colin’s mother, Suzanne O’Donoghue, and her parents, Kathy and Vin O’Donoghue, attended, as well. Also in attendance were Christian’s parents, Allan and Shantae Fiorillo.

After the assembly, Christian described seeing Miranda stumble and bleed.

“We were very nervous because we didn’t know what to do,” Christian said. “But then we realized that we just came from the deli, so we went back in to get the napkins.”

He added the recognition felt good, but helping Miranda felt even better. The experience reinforced the importance of doing the “right thing, even if you don’t know how.”

Although Colin and Christian have not yet been trained in first aid, they credit their school with teaching them the character needed in emergencies.

“At St. Greg’s, we’re taught to always help others,” Colin said. “The skills that I’ve gained from being here.

“I just took them into a real-life situation. It’s an example that other people can do.”