Saint Blaise, who is believed to have helped save Dubrovnik from the Venetians, is loved by the people of Dubrovnik who have been celebrating him for more than a thousand years, ever since 972.
The Festivity of Saint Blaise, which celebrates the city’s patron saint with a procession on February 3, became UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.
The exhibited sculpture of the Saint Blaise is a replica of the stone sculpture that was made about 1503 for a niche over the portal of the Rector’s Palace, believed to be made by the renowned Croatian Renaissance sculptor Ivan Duknović Dalmata.