Saint Blaise
Feast of Saint Blaise 2024
St. Blaise was a physician who became a bishop. He was greatly loved by the faithful and they flocked to him because of his great knowledge and spiritual direction. St. Blaise was arrested during the last of the great Roman persecutions of the Church. On his journey he was met by a mother who pleaded with the saint to save her son who was choking on a fish bone. St. Blaise miraculously saved the boy from death. While he was in prison, he was brought candles and food by his loving devotees. After his martyrdom the miracles and devotion to this saint spread far and wide throughout the Church.
The blessing of throats is a sacramental to help cure any problems of the throat, along with any other afflictions. By the invocative blessing of throats, it does not place us in the realm of the divine, but it calls down God’s aid on the individual.
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