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Blessing Of Throats

Celebrating 100 years

BLESSING OF THROATS. A blessing given on or near February 3, the feast of Saint Blase. Saint Blase is credited with saving the life of a young boy who had a bone caught in his throat. On this occasion the Church invites the faithful to receive a blessing that "through the intercession of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr, we may be delivered from all diseases from the throat and every other disease in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."

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