Celidonius is the traditional name ascribed to the "man born blind" whom Jesus healed

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 in the Gospel of John

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 . This tradition

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 is attested in both Eastern

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 and Western Christianity

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.

One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founding of the Christian church at Nîmes in Gaul

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 (present-day France).

Saint Demetrius of Rostov, in his Great Synaxarion, also mentions that the blind man's name was Celidonius.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church

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, the account of the healing of Celidonius is recounted on the Sunday of the Blind Man, the Sixth Sunday of Pascha

Easter

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 (Easter). Many hymns concerning the healing and its significance are found in the Pentecostarion

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, a liturgical book

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 used during the Paschal season.