This Friday, February 3, 2023, we will celebrate the Feast day of St. Blaise. St. Blaise is the patron saint of throat illness and we will be blessing throats following the 8:00 a.m. Mass.
St. Blaise was a bishio of Sebastea and a doctor. St. Blaise is believed to be a healer and eventually became a "physician of souls". In 316, he was arrested for being a Christian. On the way to the jail, a woman set her only son, who was chocking to death on a fish bone at his feet. Blaise cured the child.