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 * St. Blaise**


 * St. Blaise is the patron saint of wild animals, throat, choking, builders, veterinarians, infants, stone cutters, and wool workers.
 * Feast day on Feb. 3
 * Became the bishop of Sebaste
 * Born to a rich and noble family and was raised as a Christian.
 * was born sometime in the 4th century.
 * He was a physician at a young age, before he was the bishop
 * Governor Agricolaus, governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia condemned St. Blaise for upholding his Christian faith rather that apostatizing.
 * On the way to get persecuted, he talked to a wolf into releasing a pig that belonged to a poor woman. When St. Blaise was sentenced to be starved to death, the woman, in gratitude, sneaked into the prison with food and candles.
 * A legend includes a mother bringing her son (that was choking on a fish bone) to Bishop Blaise asking him to cure the throat.
 * After St. Blaise was tortured with an iron comb, he was beheaded.
 * St. Blaise has a book called // The Acts of St. Blaise //
 * Many altars were dedicated to St. Blaise including the Abbey of St. Blaise in southern Germany.
 * St. Blaise was venerated as one of the " Fourteen Holy Helpers," a group of Saints invoked as early as the 12th century in Germany and was honored on August 8.