Saint Romanus
October 1st
Troparion (Tone
4)
Thou didst gladden Christ's Church by thy melodies
like an inspired heavenly trumpet. For thou wast enlightened by
the Mother of God and didst shine on the world as God's poet. We
lovingly honour thee, O righteous Romanus.
St. Romanos the Hymnographer was born in Emesa, Syria. He served in Beirut, then in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. He was illiterate, had no musical training and had an irritating voice, but he loved to sing in church. He was despised by some of the clergy. He prayed, weeping to the Theotokos. She appeared to him in a dream and told him to swallow a piece of paper that she handed him. It was Christmas day and Romanos went up to the ambo and sang with an angelic voice what has come down to us as the Kontakion of the Nativity. St. Romanos went on to compose more than 1,000 kontakia. His scroll contains a phrase of that kontakion: "Today the Virgin gives birth." He reposed in 530 as a deacon at the Cathedral.
This icon is by the hand of Nicholas Papas.
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