Bishop Salvatore R. Matano of Rochester, N.Y., blesses the throat of Kiersten Ryan, a seventh-grader at St. Mary School in Canandaigua, following a Mass for Catholic school students Feb. 3, the feast of St. Blaise, at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester. The blessing invokes the intercession of the fourth-century bishop and martyr credited with saving the life of a boy who was choking on a fish bone. (CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier)