Saint Blaise: Saint of the Wild Beasts

2021-10-11

Today, February 3rd, we celebrate the feast of Saint Blaise. This is another episode of The Saints that loved Animals, from The Cathedral of the Soul Animal Chaplaincy Program.The Universal Church remembers the life and witness of Saint Blaise, a 3rd-century Armenian bishop,[sPause sec=0.2 ePause] who endured terrifying torments, and surrendered his life rather than repudiate his Faith. It is said that Saint Blaise was renowned as a wonderworker, effecting miraculous cures. He was a physician, and bishop of S...

Today, February 3rd, we celebrate the feast of Saint Blaise.

This is another episode of The Saints that loved Animals, from The Cathedral of the Soul Animal Chaplaincy Program.

The Universal Church remembers the life and witness of Saint Blaise, a 3rd-century Armenian bishop,[sPause sec=0.2 ePause] who endured terrifying torments, and surrendered his life rather than repudiate his Faith.

It is said that Saint Blaise was renowned as a wonderworker, effecting miraculous cures.
He was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historic Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) revered as a Christian saint and martyr.

Numerous miracles were attributed to him, including the cure of diseased beasts during his refuge, thus accounting for his also being the patron saint of wild animals.
In addition, at least one account of Saint Blaise identifies his pastoral care for the Christian faith and the animals of the wilderness.

Another story says that as Bishop Blaise was being taken to prison, he met an old woman whose pig had been stolen by a wolf. When ordered by the bishop, the wolf returned the pig to the woman – alive! While the bishop was in jail, it is believed that the same woman brought him two wax candles, to light the darkness of his cell.

He was venerated as the patron of those who sufferers from throat diseases. Saint Blaise is venerated as a saint in Catholic, Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

This legend hints at how the saints represent, in his Pious holiness, the restoration of a paradise lost and regained in Christ.

The ease and familiarity with which the Biblical Adam, shared with nature before the fall is recapitulated in Saint Blaise.

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