Blessing of the Throats Honoring the Feast of St. Blaise

Blessing of Throats: A priest will bless attendees throats following 12:00pm Mass on February 3, the Feast of St. Blaise, patron saint of throats.

A physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey), St. Blaise was martyred for the faith. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on February 3; in the Eastern Churches on February 11.

The first reference we have to him, is in manuscripts of the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, a court Physician of the very end of the 5^th or the beginning of the 6^thcentury.

There, his aid is invoked in treating objects stuck in the throat.