On Friday, February 3, we welcome all parishioners to receive a blessing of the throat through the intercession of St. Blaise. The Blessings will be offered following all of the day’s Masses. St. Blaise was a physician, bishop, and martyr who was reputed to have miraculously cured a little boy who nearly died because of a fishbone in his throat. From the eighth century he has been invoked on behalf of the sick, especially those afflicted with illnesses of the throat.