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{{Short description|Traditional name of a figure in the Bible}}
{{For|the Spanish saints|Emeterius and Celedonius}}
[[Image:La_curacion_del_ciego_El_Greco_Dresde.jpg|thumb|''Healing the Man Born Blind'' by [[El Greco]], ca. 1570 ([[Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden|Staatliche Kunstsammlungen]], [[Dresden]]).]]

'''Celidonius''' is the traditional name ascribed to the [[Healing the blind at birth|man born blind]] whom [[Miracles of Jesus|Jesus healed]] in the [[Gospel of John]] {{bibleverse-nb||John|9:1-38}}. This [[Sacred Tradition|tradition]] is attested in both [[Eastern Christianity]] and in [[Catholicism]].

One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founding of the [[Diocese of Nîmes|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.<ref>Demetrius of Rostov, ''Great Synaxarion'', entry for January 4, "[[Synaxis]] of the [[Seventy Apostles]]"</ref>

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 [[Easter|Pascha]] (Easter).<ref>Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, [http://www.antiochian.org/sunday-blind-man Sunday of the Blind Man], accessed 15 May 2016</ref> Many hymns concerning the healing and its significance are found in the ''[[Pentecostarion]]'', a [[liturgical book]] used during the [[Paschal season]].

==See also==
*[[List of names for the Biblical nameless]]

==References==
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{{New Testament people}}
[[Category:People in the canonical gospels]]
[[Category:Eastern Christian liturgy]]
[[Category:Gospel of John]]
[[Category:Mythological blind people]]