Invoked for the healing of throat diseases, St. Blaise wrote:
“Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this Holy Sacrament [the Eucharist]. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.”
St Blaise
Physician, Bishop, Martyr
Patron of Throat Diseases
and the Wool Trade
Feast Day – Feb 3
At first he was a doctor who … Attended human life … And then he ministered to souls … In spiritual strife … A bishop in Armenia … St. Blaise acquired fame … By many healings he performed … In God’s most holy name … Especially the little child … Who nearly choked to death … And through St Blaise’s prayers returned … To free and normal breath … And that is why one day each year … His saintliness we note … And ask his prayers to guard us from … Diseases of the throat … And even more important to … St Blaise’s great renown … Is all the torture he endured … To earn his martyr’s crown.
Protect our throats, St Blaise, from all … Those sicknesses today … And from the utterance of words … That we should never say … Lend wisdom to our voice, St Blaise … And pray that we may be … Forever steadfast in our faith … For God eternally.
From Poem Portraits of the Saints by James J Metcalfe (1956)
St Blaise, ora pro nobis!
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