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BLASIUS (or BLAisE), SAINT

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 43 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLASIUS (or BLAisE), SAINT ,
bishop
  of Sebaste or Sivas in
Asia
 
Minor
 , martyred under Diocletian on the 3rd of February 316. The Roman Catholic Church holds his festival on the 3rd of February, the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 11th. His flesh is said to have been torn with woolcombers' irons before he was beheaded, and this seems to be the only reason why he has always been regarded as the patron saint of woolcombers. In pre-Reformation England St Blaise was a very popular saint, and the council of
Oxford
  in 1222 forbade all
work
  on his festival. Owing to a miracle which he is alleged to have worked on a child suffering from a throat affection, who was brought to him on his way to execution, St Blaise's aid has always been held potent in throat and lung diseases. The woolcombers of England still celebrate St Blaise's day with a procession and general festivities. He forms one of a group of fourteen (i.e. twice seven) saints, who for their help in time of need have been associated as objects of particularly devoted
worship
  in Roman Catholic Germany since the middle of the 15th century.
See William Hone, Every Day Book, i. 210.


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