Why is st blaise the patron saint of throats

Click to enlarge

St. Blaise

In the Latin Church, we celebrate St. Blaise Feast Day on February third. Getting your throat blessed on the Feast of St. Blaise is a beautiful tradition to invoke his intercession for the protection against ailments of the throat and other illnesses.

He is the Patron Saint of throat ailments.

Blaise (BLASIUS), Saint, bishop and martyr.—The ninth-century martyrologies of Europe in their lists, which are accompanied by historical notices, give on February 15 the name of St.

Blasius, Bishop of Sebaste and martyr.

When was saint blaise canonized

The Greek synaxaria mention him under February 11. In the oldest known recension of the so-called martyrology of St. Jerome the name of St. Blasius does not appear; it is only in the later, enlarged catalogues that he is mentioned.

The historical notices concerning him in the above-mentioned martyrologies and synaxaria rest on the legendary Acts. All the statements agree that St. Blasius was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and most of the accounts place his martyrdom in the reign of Licinius (about 316).

As these reports may

when is st blaise feast day

when is st blaise feast day 2024