Celidonius

Celidonius

Celidonius is the traditional name ascribed to the "man born blind" whom Jesus healed in the Gospel of John . This tradition is attested in both Eastern and Western Christianity.

One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founing of the Christian church at Nîmes in Gaul (present-day France).

Saint Demetrius of Rostov, in his "Great Synaxarion" also mentions that the blind man's name was Celidonius. [Demetrius of Rostov, "Great Synaxarion", entry for January 4, "Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles"]

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the account of the healing of Celidonius is recounted on the [http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=40 Sunday of the Blind Man] , the Sixth Sunday of Pascha (Easter). Many hymns concerning the healing and its significance are found in the "Pentecostarion", a liturgical book used during the Paschal season.

ee also

*List of names for the Biblical nameless

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