Saint Romanos the Melodist
Saint Romanos was a monk and a sacristan in the temple of Hagia Sophia. Romanos was not a talented reader or singer. On the eve of the Nativity of Christ, he read the psalms so poorly that another reader had to take his place. The clergy ridiculed Romanos, which devastated him. On the day of the Nativity, the Mother of God appeared to the grief-stricken youth in a vision and gave him a scroll and commanded him to eat it. Thus Saint Romanos was given the gift of understanding, composition, and hymnography. That evening at the vigil Saint Romanos sang, in a wondrous voice, his first kontakion: "Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One..." Saint Romanos was ordained a deacon and became a teacher of song. Until his repose in the year 556, Romanos the Melodist composed nearly a thousand hymns, of which about eighty survive, and are still sung today by Orthodox Christians to glorify the Lord.
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