Case file · Apparition / miracle
Saint Blaise warns Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik tradition says that in 971 Saint Blaise appeared to the priest Stojko in the cathedral and warned that Venetian ships anchored off the city were planning a surprise attack.
971 CE · 42.64, 18.11 · status: legend
The account
Warned in time, the citizens prepared their defences and the Venetians sailed away. Blaise became the patron of the Republic of Ragusa, his figure was set on its walls and coins, and his feast on 3 February is still the city's great festival.
The sceptical view
The story is known from later chronicles of Ragusa and is a classic civic patron-saint legend.