page_title: Saint Blaise
section_title: The Acts of St. Blaise
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Blaise / The Acts of St. Blaise
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Saint Blaise on the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc in Olomouc (Czech Republic). Čeština: Socha Svatého Blažeje na sloupu nejsvětější trojice v Olomouci.
context_page_description: Blaise of Sebaste was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr.
  Blaise is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and throat disease. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February, in the Eastern Churches on 11 February. According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron combs, and beheaded.
context_section_description: The legendary Acts of St. Blaise were written 400 years after his death, and are apocryphal and, perhaps, fictional.
  The legend is as follows:
  Blaise, who had studied philosophy in his youth, was a doctor in Sebaste in Armenia, the city of his birth, who exercised his art with miraculous ability, good-will, and piety.  When the bishop of the city died, he was chosen to succeed him, with the acclamation of all the people.  His holiness was manifest through many miracles: from all around, people came to him to find cures for their spirit and their body; even wild animals came in herds to receive his blessing.  In 316, Agricola, the governor of Cappadocia and of Lesser Armenia, having arrived in Sebastia at the order of the emperor Licinius to kill the Christians, arrested the bishop.  As he was being led to jail, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet, and the child was cured straight away.  Regardless, the governor, unable to make Blaise renounce his faith, beat him with a stick, ripped his flesh with iron combs, and beheaded him.
caption: Statue of Saint Blaise at Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.
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