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Didymus the Blind

Didymus the blind was a celebrated head of the catechetical school at Alexandria.

Although he was a layman and had become blind at the age of 4, he memorized great sections of the scriptures and, by means of secretaries, dictated numerous exegetical works. Among those holding him in great esteem were Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, who made him head of the Alexandrian school; and Jerome, who acknowledged Didymus as his master.

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Jerome later retracted, however, when the issue of Origenism became the subject of a heated controversy that subsequently culminated in the second Council (553) of Constantinople, in which Didymus' works - but not his person - were condemned for teaching Origenist doctrine.

Because of this condemnation, most of his works were not copied during the Middle Ages and thus were lost.

The accidental discovery in 1941 at Toura, south of Cairo, of a group of papyrus codices, dating fro