Years ago, I visited the fascinating walled city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It was there I learned more about St. Blaise. Although I’d had my throat blessed on his feast day, Feb. 3, a few times ...

How did St. Blaise get associated with otolaryngology? He lived in the early fourth century (300s). Not a lot is known about him. Tradition says he was a physician and then a bishop in Sebaste in ...

Every year on Feb. 3, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Blaise. Since he is the patron saint of those who suffer from throat ailments (and the doctors who treat them), many parishes around ...

During the feast of St. Blaise, celebrated every Feb. 3, Catholics line up after Mass to have their throats blessed in a ritual dating back hundreds of years. “It’s a tradition of the church ...

It was St. Blaise Day, when Catholics go to church to get their throats blessed. St. Blaise (San Blas in Mexico, Saint-Blaise in Canada) is the patron saint of throat ailments—everything from ...