MEMORIAL: FEBRUARY 3
St. Blaise was a bishop and doctor in Armenia in the 4th century. Many people came to St. Blaise for healing miracles. He saved a little boy’s life who had a fishbone stuck in his throat by blessing him.
This “blessing of the throat” is celebrated today, his feast day, by a priest, deacon or lay minister touching two candles to a person’s throat, blessing them by saying, “Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
