Monday, February 05, 2007

February 3: St. Blaise Day...


Friday we celebrated Candlemas Day and and on Saturday we had our red vestements for St. Blaise Day.

San Biagio is a nice festa in Rome. For the throat blessing I always go to is visit his Armenian chuch on the Via Giulia in the centro storico.
When you enter this parish on this day you will see a cleric in the rear of the church at a table. You take some bread from the dish, leave some change as a donation and kneel for the blessing. It's a sure must if you're ever in Rome on a February 3.

2 comments:

T. Peregrinus said...

John, you know that cough I had in Europe? Well, it shot my lungs up so bad that it lasted up until St. Blaise's day. After the blessing, the cough pretty much left. I coughed a bit here and there, but not spasmodically, and by the day after, it was gone.

John Paul Sonnen said...

nice testimony, mate! miracles do happen, even in the land down under!