St Blaise  (A.D.316)
St Blaise was born of rich and noble parents, receiving a christian education and being made a bishop while still quite young, in Sebastea, Armenia.
We have very little facts about this great saint.

During the persecution of Licinius, he withdrew by divine direction to a cave in the mountains which was frequented only by wild beasts. These he healed when they were sick or wounded, and they used to come around him to receive his blessing. Hunters, who had been sent to secure animals for the amphitheatre, found the saint surrounded by the beasts, and, though greatly amazed, they seized him and took him to Argricolaus governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia. 

On their way they met a poor woman whose pig had been carried off by a wolf; at the command of St Blaise, the wolf restored the pig unhurt. The incident is worth mentioning because of a ceremony which arose in connection with it. On another occasion a woman brought to him a little boy who was at the point of death owing to a fishbone in his throat, and the saint healed him.

On account of this and other similar cures St Blaise has been invoked during many centuries past for all kinds of throat trouble.
The governor ordered him to be scourged and deprived of food, but the woman whose pig had been restored brought provisions to him and also candles to dispel the darkness of his gloomy prison. 
Then Licinius tortured him by tearing his flesh with iron combs, and afterwards had him beheaded.
Through his intercession many have been cured of throat diseases or protected from them.
LORD, HEAR YOUR PEOPLE THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF ST BLAISE. HELP US TO ENJOY PEACE IN THIS LIFE AND FIND A LASTING REFUGE IN THE NEXT. AMEN