Didymus the Blind
Didymus (313-398), surnamed the Blind, was an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria, likely born in year 313. Although he became blind at the age of four, before he had learned to read, he succeeded in mastering the whole gamut of the sciences then known. Upon entering the service of the Church he was placed at the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, where he lived and worked. He counted among his pupils Jerome and Rufinus.
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