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Icon nb 43
Size : 25 x 32 cm.
Pine board
Gilded halo . Egg tempera.
Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, he saved a boy who had swallowed a fishbone that could not be removed. This is the origin, in the West, of the "Blessing of the Necks of Saint Blaise" against all throat infections. He died martyr in 316.
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