Healing the Man Born Blind by El Greco , ca. 1570 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen , Dresden ).Celidonius is the traditional name ascribed to the man born blind whom Jesus healed in the Gospel of John 9:1–38 . This tradition is attested in both Eastern Christianity and in Catholicism .
One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founding of the Christian church at Nîmes in Gaul (present-day France). For this reason, he is often confused with Sidonius of Aix .
Saint Demetrius of Rostov , in his Great Synaxarion , also mentions that the blind man's name was Celidonius.[ 1]
In the Eastern Orthodox Church , the account of the healing of Celidonius is recounted on the "Sunday of the Blind Man", the Sixth Sunday of Pascha (Easter).[ 2] Pentecostarion liturgical book used during the Paschal season .
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