The feast creeps up quietly: on the last Sunday of January the statue of Saint Blaise is lowered from its niche, then come three days of prayers and the Candlemas blessing of candles, and on 3 February the procession sets out from the church of San Sebastiano. Back inside, people queue for the blessing of the throat, given with two crossed candles — Blaise being the saint invoked against ailments of the throat.
Records of the devotion go back to around 1535, when the townspeople took the martyred bishop as their protector — tradition says after an epidemic — alongside the Madonna Annunziata, patron of the town. The 2026 edition was held as usual on 3 February.
