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Also known as

• Romanos the Melode
• Romanos l’Hymnographe
• Romanos Melodhos
• Romanos Melodist
• Glykophonos
• Psaitis Dhikeosinis
• Righteous Chanter
• Romanus
• Sweet Singer

Memorial

• 1 October

Profile

Convert to Christianity from Judaism. Deacon, serving at the Church of the Resurection in Beirut, Lebanon, and at Constantinople. Wrote hundreds of hymns in simple language, appealing to the hearts of the faithful. Of the thousand or so that he wrote, only 60 to 80 survive – but they are still sung today.

Born

• c.490 in Syria

Died

• c.556 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• cantors

Representation

• young deacon in the middle of a church holding a scroll of a kontakion surrounded by church heirarchy and/or nobility and/or saints
• young deacon holding a church and an incense censer

Works

• Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ

MLA Citation

• “Saint Romanos the Melodist“. CatholicSaints.Info. 3 September 2022. Web. 28 April 2024. <>