Accounts of the saint say he devoted his early life to the study of Philosophy and became a physician; he would go from healing the body's ailments to that of the souls. Devoting his life to Christ, he was eventually appointed to the bishopric of Sebaste in Armenia. Following the edict of Licinius, the governor of Cappadocia and lesser Armenia began to persecute Christians. Blaise was scourged and beheaded for the faith in 316. His iconography is typified by the holding of two crossed candles.
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