There is also a statue on a spire of Milan Cathedral, the city where in the past, the Christmas cake is not never ate one piece, reserving always a part of our saint's day. (It still sells for the Milano "panettone san Biagio, which would be advanced during the holiday season). San Biagio it is venerated in both East and West, and his party has spread the rite of "blessing of the throat", with the rest two crossed candles (or the anointing with blessed oil) always invoking her intercession. The application connects to a tradition that the Bishop Biagio would miraculously freed a child from a thorn or bone stuck in his throat.
Bishop, then. Ruled, it is believed, the community of Sebaste in Armenia in the Roman Empire when it grants the freedom of worship for Christians in 313 under Constantine and Licinius, both "Augusta", that emperor (and even in-laws: Licinius married a sister of Constantine). Licinius ruled the East, and therefore has as one of his subjects also Biagio. But the martyr who died around the year 316, ie after the end of the persecutions. Why? There
way of light. The fact appears to be due to the conflict broke out between the two emperors-in-law in 314 and continued with brief truces and new struggles until 325, when Constantine Licinius will strangle to Thessalonica (Thessaloniki). The conflict causes some local persecution in the East - perhaps the work of overzealous governors, writes the historian Eusebius of Caesarea in the same fourth century - with the destruction of churches, Christian convictions for forced labor, murder of bishops, including Basil of Amasea in the Black Sea region
Biagio For the traditional tales, following models often these works, which they particularly want to stimulate piety and devotion of the Christians, are full of miraculous events, but at the same time uncontrollable. Biagio's body was buried in his cathedral of Sebaste, but in 732 a part of the remains is loaded by some Armenian Christians to Rome. A sudden storm cut off but their trip to Maratea (Potenza): and here the faithful receive the relics of the saint in a church, which later became the present church, on the height now called Monte San Biagio, on whose summit was built in 1963, the great statue of the Redeemer, 21 meters high.
Since 1863 he assumed the name of the town called Monte San Biagio first Monticello (province of Latina) and placed on the southwest side of Bald Mountain. Many other places in our country are named after him: San Biagio della Cima (Imperia), San Biagio di Callalta (Treviso), San Biagio Platani (Agrigento), San Biagio Saracinisco (Frosinone) and San Biase (Chieti). But then we find also in France, Spain, Switzerland and the Americas ... It has come a long street, the Armenian bishop whose life we \u200b\u200bknow so little.
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