So who is going to get their throat blessed today? Today we celebrate the feast day of Saint Blaise and he is the patron saint against throat diseases. He got this affiliation because he saved a young boy who was choking on a fish bone. So today people have their throats blessed, using the prayer below, to help fight off aliments of the throats. After being thrown into a lake to drown, Saint Blaise stood there and asked his persecutors to come out there to prove the power of their pagan gods, but they drowned. He as a bishop He died a violent death around the year 316. He is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
BLESSING
Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, may God deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
PRAYER
O glorious Saint Blase, who by thy martyrdom didst leave to the Church a precious witness to the faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to defend, without human respect, both by word and example, the truth of that same faith, which is so wickedly attacked and slandered in these our times. Thou who didst miraculously restore a little child when it was at the point of death by reason of an affliction of the throat, grant us thy mighty protection in like misfortunes; and, above all, obtain for us the grace of Christian mortification together with a faithful observance of the precepts of the Church, which may keep us from offending Almighty God. Amen.
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