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. This

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is attested in both Eastern Christianity and in

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

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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

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

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used during the Paschal season.

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