St. Blaise

Feb. 2, the “Presentation of the Lord,” popularly called “Candlemas,” was one of them: people brought blessed candles home for use when the priest came to bring ...

While in prison, tradition holds that St. Agatha (headache), St. How did St. Blaise and his association with the throat, along with St. His cult grew in medieval Europe (which makes it harder to distinguish the documented from the undocumented in traditions about him): in Rhineland Germany, there arose the cult of the “Vierzehn Nothelfer” (the “14 Holy Helpers”), a group of saints associated with particular needs. Some say he was tortured in iron wool combs — metal combs used to straighten out sheep wool for spinning and for scraping skin off victims — before being beheaded.