Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 3

Subject: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 3 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:44 am

Saints Celebrated on this Day

St. Blaise
St. Laurentinus
St. Ansgar
St. Anatolius
St. Berlinda
St. Werburg
St. Tigides and Remedius
St. Celerinus
St. Deodatus
St. Caellainn
St. Hadelin
Bl. John Nelson
St. Lawrence of Spoleto
St. Liafdag
St. Lupicinus and Felix
St. Margaret of England
Bl. Rabanus Maurus
St. Remedius
Bl. Odoric of Pordenone
St. Oliver
St. Philip of Vienne

Subject: Re: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 3 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:45 am

February 3, 2006
St. Blase
(d. 316)

We know more about the devotion to St. Blase by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself. His feast is observed as a holy day in the Eastern Church. The Council of Oxford, in 1222, prohibited servile labor in England on Blase’s...
We know more about the devotion to St. Blase by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself. His feast is observed as a holy day in the Eastern Church. The Council of Oxford, in 1222, prohibited servile labor in England on Blase’s feast day. The Germans and Slavs hold him in special honor and for decades many United States Catholics have sought the annual St. Blase blessing for their throats

We know that Bishop Blase was martyred in his episcopal city of Sebastea, Armenia, in 316. The legendary Acts of St. Blase were written 400 years later. According to them Blase was a good bishop, working hard to encourage the spiritual and physical health of his people. Although the Edict of Toleration (311), granting freedom of worship in the Roman Empire, was already five years old, persecution still raged in Armenia. Blase was apparently forced to flee to the back country. There he lived as a hermit in solitude and prayer, but made friends with the wild animals. One day a group of hunters seeking wild animals for the amphitheater stumbled upon Blase’s cave. They were first surprised and then frightened. The bishop was kneeling in prayer surrounded by patiently waiting wolves, lions and bears.
As the hunters hauled Blase off to prison, the legend has it, a mother came with her young son who had a fish bone lodged in his throat. At Blase’s command the child was able to cough up the bone.
Agricolaus, governor of Cappadocia, tried to persuade Blase to sacrifice to pagan idols. The first time Blase refused, he was beaten. The next time he was suspended from a tree and his flesh torn with iron combs or rakes. (English wool combers, who used similar iron combs, took Blase as their patron. They could easily appreciate the agony the saint underwent.) Finally he was beheaded.
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“Through the intercession of St. Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Blessing of St. Blase).
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