I wasn’t happy with myself this morning when I read in my copy of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, “According to a late and historically worthless, but widely distributed legend, St. Blasius was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and martyred under Licinius in the early 4th century.”[1] I never blessed throats until I came to Saint Mary’s—although Trinity Church, Michigan City, Indiana, had an Anglo-Catholic rector from the late 1940s until 1963, if I recall correctly. The parish had the right equipment.
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