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44-501: The villages of Ehrenstetten, Kirchhofen, Norsingen, Offnadingen, and Scherzingen were properties of Saint Blaise Abbey, Black Forest until 1806, when they were mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden . They were assigned to the district of Staufen im Breisgau until 1936, when they were reassigned to the district of Freiburg im Breisgau . As part of the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform  [ de ] , they were assigned to

88-465: A field of red . These images refer to the regional history of viticulture , particularly on the slopes of the Batzenberg  [ de ] , Kirchberg and Ölberg. The right image displays a blue stag, standing and facing to the left, upon a field of yellow. The stag is taken from the coat of arms of Saint Blaise Abbey, whose tincture was also used for Ehrenkirchen's, but spread around to abide by

132-611: A certain bond with the Emperor, there seems to have been no question of St Blaise's having the status of a " Reichskloster " . From the mid-13th century the Vögte (protective lordship) were Habsburg which this drew St. Blaise increasingly into the Austrian sphere of influence. The ties to the Empire remained, however: the abbey was named between 1422 and 1521 in the lists of imperial territories and

176-483: A fire, and the remains of the building were demolished. A new primary school was built on the land, and most of the extensive grounds were sold off for housing. There is a 14th-century wall painting of St Blaise in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames , located by the marketplace, marking the significance of the wool trade in the economic expansion of the market town in the 14th and 15th centuries. In England in

220-518: A long beard and a bishop's mitre and staff. In this form, the effigy of Blaise remained on Dubrovnik's state seal and coinage until the Napoleonic era. Croatians all around the world celebrate the feast of Sveti Vlaho every year. In Cornwall the town of St Blazey and the civil parish of St Blaise are derived from his name, where the parish church is still dedicated to Saint Blaise. The council of Oxford in 1222 forbade all work on his feast day. There

264-494: A special prayer is required. In iconography , Blaise is represented holding two crossed candles in his hand (the Blessing of St. Blaise), or in a cave surrounded by wild beasts, as he was found by the hunters of the governor. He is often shown with the instruments of his martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular, and

308-586: A stop in Norsingen. Saint Blaise Abbey, Black Forest Saint Blaise Abbey ( German : Kloster Sankt Blasien ) was a Benedictine monastery in the village of St. Blasien in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The early history of the abbey is obscure. Its predecessor in the 9th century is supposed to have been a cell of Rheinau Abbey , known as cella alba (the "white cell"), but

352-530: A vision in 971 to warn the inhabitants of an impending attack by the Venetians , whose galleys had dropped anchor in Gruž and near Lokrum , ostensibly to resupply their water but furtively to spy out the city's defences. St. Blaise (Blasius) revealed their pernicious plan to Stojko, a canon of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Senate summoned Stojko, who told them in detail how St. Blaise had appeared before him as an old man with

396-743: Is a cathedral in any ecclesiastical or administrative sense). Dom properly denotes or means an important church (as the main church of a town or a city), not a cathedral (seat of a bishop), Kathedrale in German. The effects of another catastrophic fire in 1874 were only finally remedied in the 1980s. 47°45′36″N 8°07′48″E  /  47.76000°N 8.13000°E  / 47.76000; 8.13000 Saint Blaise Usually in January (date varies)( Armenian Apostolic ) Blaise of Sebaste ( Armenian : Սուրբ Վլասի , Surb Vlasi ; Greek : Ἅγιος Βλάσιος , Hágios Blásios ; Latin : Blasius martyred 316 AD)

440-670: Is a church dedicated to Saint Blaise in the Devon hamlet of Haccombe, near Newton Abbot , one at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight and another at Milton near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, one of the country's smallest churches. It is located next to Haccombe house which is the family home of the Carew family, descendants of the vice admiral on board the Mary Rose at the time of her sinking. This church, unusually, retains

484-604: Is as follows: Blaise, who had studied philosophy in his youth, was a doctor in Sebaste in Armenia, the city of his birth, who exercised his art with miraculous ability, good-will, and piety. When the bishop of the city died, he was chosen to succeed him, with the acclamation of all the people. His holiness was manifest through many miracles: from all around, people came to him to find cures for their spirit and their body; even wild animals came in herds to receive his blessing. In 316, Agricola,

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528-461: Is located in Ehrenkirchen's municipal area. Ehrenkirchen has five boroughs ( Ortsteile ): Ehrenstetten, Kirchhofen, Norsingen, Offnadingen, and Scherzingen. The municipal coat of arms for Ehrenkirchen displays two images inspired by aspects of the municipality and its history, impaled upon the same blazon . The left image is of wine grapes, in yellow , above a yellow three-pointed hill upon

572-492: Is mentioned in Þorláks saga helga , an Icelandic saga about Thorlak Thorhallsson , the patron saint of Iceland. St. Blaise Church, Sao Bras, Goa , India was a small Chapel built in 1541 by Croatian sailors and traders settled in the village. It was elevated to a Parish Church in 1563. The church is a replica of the one in Dubrovnik, dedicated to St. Blaise, the patron of the city. In Italy, Saint Blaise's remains rest at

616-580: Is said to have healed animals, who came to him on their own for his assistance, and in turn to have been helped by animals. In 316 the governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia , Agricola, began a persecution of him by order of the Emperor Licinius , and Blaise was seized. After his interrogation and a severe scourging, he was imprisoned and subsequently beheaded. The legendary Acts of St. Blaise were written 400 years after his death, and are apocryphal and, possibly, fictional. The legend narrative

660-474: Is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik and formerly the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa . At Dubrovnik, his feast is celebrated yearly on 3 February, when relics of the saint, his skull, a bit of bone from his throat and his right and left hands are paraded in reliquaries . The festivities begin the previous day, Candlemas , when white doves are released. Chroniclers of Dubrovnik such as Rastic and Ranjina attribute his veneration there to

704-632: The Bishops of Basle was shaken off quite early: a charter of the Emperor Henry V dated 8 January 1125 confirms that the abbey possessed imperial protection and free election of their Vogt . Nevertheless, the office afterwards became a possession of the Zähringer , and after their extinction in 1218, was held at Imperial will and gift under the Emperor Frederick II . While this may well have preserved

748-764: The Kolleg St. Blasien . The abbey church burnt down in 1768, and was rebuilt as a Neoclassical round church by the architect Pierre Michel d'Ixnard , with an enormous dome 46 metres across and 63 metres high (the third-largest in Europe north of the Alps ), during the years up to 1781 under the Prince-Abbot Martin Gerbert . It was consecrated in 1784. It remains as the Dom St Blasius , or "St Blaise's Cathedral" (so called because of its size and magnificence, not because it

792-586: The Latin Church , his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the Acta Sanctorum , he was martyred by being beaten, tortured with iron combs , and beheaded. The first reference to Blaise is the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus ( c.  AD 500 ) where his aid is invoked in treating patients with objects stuck in the throat. Marco Polo reported on

836-591: The Swabian Circle tried in vain in 1549 to claim St Blaise as an imperial abbey. The four imperial lordships which St Blaise's had acquired by the end of the 13th century — Blumegg, Bettmaringen, Gutenburg and Berauer Berg — in fact formed the nucleus of the reichsunmittelbar lordship of Bonndorf , constituted in 1609, from which the Prince-Abbots derived their status in the Holy Roman Empire . The abbey

880-482: The rule of tincture . The coat of arms was approved for official use by Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district office on 21 March 1977. The economy of Ehrenkirchen is based on tourism, viticulture, and an industrial sector that has been growing since the 1990s. Ehrenkirchen is connected to Germany's network of roadways by Bundesstraße 3 and to its railways by the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway , which has

924-599: The 18th and 19th centuries, Blaise was adopted as the mascot of woolworkers' pageants, particularly in Essex , Yorkshire , Wiltshire and Norwich . The popular enthusiasm for the saint is explained by the belief that Blaise had brought prosperity (as symbolised by the Woolsack ) to England by teaching the English to comb wool. According to the tradition as recorded in printed broadsheets , Blaise came from Jersey , Channel Islands . Jersey

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968-624: The Armenian Order of Saint Blaise . In Italy he is known as San Biagio . In Spanish -speaking countries, he is known as San Blas, and has lent his name to many places (see San Blas ). Several places in Portugal and Brazil are also named after him, where he is called São Brás (see São Brás ). Many German churches, including the former Abbey of St. Blasius in the Black Forest and the church of Balve , are dedicated to Saint Blaise/Blasius. Saint Blaise ( Croatian : Sveti Vlaho or Sveti Blaž )

1012-666: The Basilica on Monte San Biagio , a mountain named in his honour, over the town of Maratea , Basilicata , shipwrecked there during Leo III the Isaurian 's iconoclastic persecutions, on their first journey out of Sebastea to Europe. In the small village of Sicilì in Campania , Saint Blaise’s feast day is celebrated on 3 February 3 but also on 14 May. Locals come to the shrine dedicated to him to show their respect and devotion but also to ask him for help with healing someone who has fallen ill where

1056-535: The West, there had been no group honouring St. Blaise prior to the eighth century. According to the Acts , while Blaise was being taken into custody, a distraught mother, whose only child was choking on a fish bone, threw herself at his feet and implored his intercession. Touched by her distress, he offered up his prayers, and the child was cured. Traditionally, Saint Blaise is invoked for protection against injuries and illnesses of

1100-502: The abbey received a grant of immunity from Emperor Henry IV , although it had connections to the family of the anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden . Between 1070 and 1073 there seem to have been contacts between St. Blaise and the active Cluniac abbey of Fruttuaria in Italy, which led to St. Blaise following the Fruttuarian reforms, introducing lay-brothers or "conversi" and probably even

1144-454: The abbeys of Alpirsbach (1099), Ettenheimmünster (1124) and Sulzburg ( ca 1125), and the priories of Weitenau ( ca 1100), Bürgeln (before 1130) and Sitzenkirch ( ca 1130). A list of prayer partnerships, drawn up about 1150, shows how extensive the connections were between St Blaise and other religious communities. During the course of the 12th century however the zeal of the monks cooled, as their attention became increasingly focussed on

1188-449: The acquisition, management and exploitation of their substantial estates, which by the 15th century extended across the whole of the Black Forest and included not only the abbey's priories named above, but also the nunnery at Gutnau and the livings of Niederrotweil, Schluchsee, Wettelbrunn, Achdorf, Hochemmingen, Todtnau, Efringen, Schönau, Wangen, Plochingen, Nassenbeuren and many others. The original Vogtei (protective lordship) of

1232-680: The capital of the region to which it is assigned. The municipal area is physically located in the Markgräflerland , along the Möhlin , a tributary of the Rhine . Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of 913 meters (2,995 ft) Normalnull (NN) at the top of the Stutzkopf to a low of 213 meters (699 ft) NN on the Möhlin. The Federally-protected Ölberg Ehrenstetten nature reserve

1276-411: The connections of Bradford to the woollen industry and the method that St Blaise was martyred, with the woolcomb. Due to reorganisation, the school closed down when Catholic middle schools were phased out, and the building was sold to Bradford Council to provide replacement accommodation for another local middle school which had burned down. Within a few months, St Blaise school was also severely damaged in

1320-512: The end of a morning Mass. The Blaise Castle Estate and the nearby Blaise Hamlet in Bristol derive their name from a thirteenth-century chapel dedicated to St Blaise, built on a site previously occupied by an Iron Age fort and a Roman temple. In Bradford, West Yorkshire a Catholic middle school named after St Blaise was operated by the Diocese of Leeds from 1961 to 1995. The name was chosen due to

1364-552: The governor of Cappadocia and of Lesser Armenia, having arrived in Sebastia at the order of the emperor Licinius to kill the Christians, arrested the bishop. As he was being led to jail, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet, and the child was cured straight away. Regardless, the governor, unable to make Blaise renounce his faith, beat him with a stick, ripped his flesh with iron combs, and beheaded him. As

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1408-404: The governor's men led Blaise back to Sebastea, on the way, they met a poor woman whose pig had been seized by a wolf. At the command of Blaise, the wolf restored the pig to its owner, alive and unhurt. When he had reached the capital and was thrown in prison to await execution, the old woman whose pig he had saved came to see him, bringing two fine wax candles to dispel the gloom of his dark cell. In

1452-424: The line of development between that and the confirmed existence of St Blaise 's Abbey in the 11th century is unclear. At some point the new foundation would have had to become independent of Rheinau, in which process the shadowy Reginbert of Seldenbüren (died about 962), traditionally named as the founder, may have played some role. The first definite abbot of St Blaise however was Werner I (1045?–1069). On 8 June 1065

1496-581: The new district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald . Over 1973 and 1974, the five villages merged into a single municipality, Ehrenkirchen, whose name was a combination of the largest towns, Ehrenstetten and Kirchhofen. The municipality ( Gemeinde ) of Ehrenkirchen is located in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg , a state of the Federal Republic of Germany . It is 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) south of Freiburg im Breisgau ,

1540-646: The office of an "archpriest". There is a St Blaise's Well in Bromley , London where the water was considered to have medicinal virtues. St Blaise is also associated with Stretford in Lancashire . A Blessing of the Throats ceremony is held on February 3 at St Etheldreda's Church in London and in Balve , Germany . The blessing is performed in many Catholic parish churches, often at

1584-619: The place where "Messer Saint Blaise obtained the glorious crown of martyrdom", Sebastea. The shrine near the citadel mount was mentioned by William of Rubruck in 1253, although the ruins are no longer visible. It is said from being a healer of bodily ailments, Saint Blaise was to become an expert on souls, then he retired for a time to a cavern where he remained in prayer. As bishop of Sebastea, Blaise instructed people as much by his example as by his words, and his great virtues and his sanctity were attested by many miracles. People were said to flock to him for cures of bodily and spiritual ills. He

1628-581: The reformation of the abbey as a double monastery for both monks and nuns (the nuns are said to have re-settled to Berau Abbey by 1117). Bernold of Constance ( ca 1050–1100) in his histories counts St Blaise alongside Hirsau Abbey as leading Swabian reform monasteries. Other religious houses reformed by, or founded as priories of, St Blaise were: Muri Abbey (1082), Ochsenhausen Abbey (1093), Göttweig Abbey (1094), Stein am Rhein Abbey (before 1123) and Prüm Abbey (1132). It also had significant influence on

1672-527: The throat and from every other illness". Then the priest makes the sign of the cross over the faithful. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Blaise became one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages. His followers became widespread in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries and his legend is recounted in the 13th-century Legenda Aurea . Saint Blaise is the saint of the wild beast. He is patron of

1716-438: The throat tissues interfering with breathing during sleep. (Non-OSA sleep disorders are typically invoked with the intercession of St. Dymphna since these are more neurological in nature.) There are multiple relics of Blaise in a variety of churches and chapels, including multiple whole bodies, at least four heads and several jaws, at least eight arms, and so on: With a little research, we would find Saint Blaise armed with

1760-570: The throat. In many places, on the day of his feast the blessing of St. Blaise is given: two candles (sometimes lit), blessed on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord ( Candlemas ), are held in the form of a cross by a priest over the heads of the faithful or the people are touched on the throat with them. At the same time the following blessing is given: "Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of

1804-528: The wool trade in general. He may also be depicted with crossed candles . Such crossed candles are used for the blessing of throats on his feast day , which falls on 3 February, the day after Candlemas on the General Roman Calendar . Blaise is traditionally believed to intercede in cases of throat illnesses, especially for fish-bones stuck in the throat. He is also called upon to aid in protection against obstructive sleep apnea since this involves

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1848-513: Was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey ) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers . Blaise is a saint in the Catholic , Western Rite Orthodoxy , Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In

1892-533: Was certainly a centre of export of woollen goods (as witnessed by the name jersey for the woollen textile). However, this legend is probably the result of confusion with a different saint, Blasius of Caesarea ( Caesarea being also the Latin name of Jersey). Blaise (Icelandic: Blasíus ) was prominent in Iceland, in particular Southwestern Iceland, where he was known for his purported miracle-working powers. Saint Blaise

1936-563: Was dissolved in the course of secularisation in 1806 and the monastic premises were thereupon used as one of the earliest mechanised factories in Germany. The monks however, under the last Prince-Abbot Dr Berthold Rottler, found their way to St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal in Austria , where they settled in 1809. From 1934, the remaining buildings have been occupied by the well-known Jesuit college,

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