Pilgrimage to the hermitage of Sant Blai

This ancient pilgrimage has its origin in the popular belief that Sant Blai is the advocate of those who suffer from a sore throat.

Leave Campos in a southeasterly direction along the road that goes to the Colonia de Sant Jordi (PM-6040); at kilometre 4, we find a boundary cross that indicates the path on the left which, in another half kilometre, will leave us at the oratory of Sant Blai. Pilgrims have the habit of doing the 4.5 kilometers of the route with a yellow handkerchief around their necks, either on foot, by bicycle or on horseback.

When the pilgrims arrive at the oratory, mass is celebrated and the traditional anointing of oil on the neck is performed, as well as the blessing of rolls or herbal sweets. Then, there are children’s games, ball de bot and brotherhood lunch.

The oratory of Sant Blai is one of the oldest in Mallorca, as it is recorded in documentation of Pope Innocent IV in 1248. It is in the primitive Gothic style with a single nave with a rectangular floor plan, covered with a transept vault and eight adjoining chapels. From the fifteenth century onwards, several reforms were carried out. It has two portals: the main one and a side one that opens onto a courtyard with a foreign portal.

Attached to the chapel, there is a garden, which, between 1652 and 1845, was a cemetery. There are symbolic sculptures and plants of Mediterranean flora.

Joys in Sant Blai de Campos

Like. 1800

 

With respect and humility

we come to visit you;

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

Sebaste happy city,

Place of Birth

celebrate happily

your portentous life;

your name is honored

of every virtuous homo,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

In your youth

you already looked like a saint,

every step increasing

Your grace and virtue:

at the most florid age

you served God fervently,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

Being you to die

you asked the Lord

remedy for cannon pain,

and he granted it to you

for the one who trusts

come to invoke you,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

With your power so much

cure every sickness,

you perform miracles every day

giving health to every sick person.

Doctor of God sent

you can call yourselves,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

Campos may well bless

that happy day

in which saint so powerful

he chose as a patron;

so in you he has found

a father the most loving,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

From the middle of this plain

Keep our country

and our people defend

of sadness and bitterness,

of stone and storm,

of lightning and furious wind,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

Give comfort and refreshments

to our ancestors

who are buried here

in this holy cemetery,

who have taught us

to come and visit you,

Be our lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.

 

Give grace and health

to your benefactors,

Be their lawyer

Sant Blai, glorious martyr.