Commemorated on October 1
Saint Romanus the Melodist was innate in the fifth century in the Syrian metropolitan area of Emesa of Jewish parents. In the past moving to Constantinople, he became a church sacristan in the temple of Hagia Sophia. The priest vanished his nights alone at prayer in a locale or in the Blachernae church specially the metropolitan area.St Romanus was not a enormous reader or lead singer. With, on the eve of the Nativity of Christ, he read the kathisma verses. He read so ailing that new-found reader had to look for his place. The clergy ridiculed Romanus, which terribly upset him.
On the day of the Nativity, the Close relative of God appeared to the despairing youngsters in a think to the same degree he was praying in the future her Kyriotissa icon. She gave him a scroll and commanded him to eat it. As a result was he fixed idea the gift of understanding, maneuvering, and hymnography.
That sunset at the all-night Vigil St Romanus sang, in a wondrous give or take, his leading Kontakion: "At the present time the Virgin gives biological to the Awe-inspiring One..." All the hymns of St Romanus became proverbial as kontakia, in estimate to the Virgin's scroll. St Romanus was in the same way the leading to write down in the form of the Oikos, which he built-in inwards the all-night Vigil at his spaces of situate (In Greek, "oikos").
For his passionate service St Romanus was preordained as a deacon and became a supporter of tone. Until his death, which occurred about the year 556, the hierodeacon Romanus the Melodist all together more or less a thousand hymns, heaps of which are still recycled by Christians to admire the Lord. On the road to eighty take place.
Troparion - Bank 4
You gladdened Christ's House of worship by your melodies
later than an expressive pleasant recite.
You were liberal by the Close relative of God
and shone on the world as God's poet.
We with fervor award you, simply Romanus.
Kontakion - Bank 8
You were celebrated from early life with the godly qualities of the Spirit;
you were a plush decorate of the House of worship of Christ, all-wise Romanus,
for you prepared it piercing with light on your feet hymnody.
Therefore, we beseech you, display your divine gift to natives who lust it,
that we may cry out to you: "Rejoice, all-blessed Pioneer, beauty of the House of worship."
