Name Blaise

There are multiple origins and translations for the name Blaise:

1. Drived from the ancient Greek word (βλάστησις) [vlastithis] semantics - "growth".

2. Comes from the Latin word blaesus in a figurative sense - "lisping, stammering".

3. Latin form of the Armenian name Barseh and interpretation is - "furry, downy".

St Blaise the ninth-century martyrologies of Europe in their lists, which are accompanied by historical notices, give on 15 February the name of St. Blasius, Bishop of Sebaste (Armenia) and martyr. The Greek synaxaria mention him under 11 February. In the oldest known recension of the so-called martyrology of St. Jerome the name of St. Blasius does not appear; it is only in the later, enlarged catalogues that he is mentioned. The historical notices concerning him in the above-mentioned martyrologies and synaxaria rest on the legendary Acts. All the statements agree that St. Blasius was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and most of the acounts place his martyrdom in the reign of Licinius (about 316). As these reports may rest on old traditions which are bound up with the veneration of the Saint in the Church liturgy, they are not to be absolutely rejected.