October. The Armenian Apostolic Church commemorates Saint Romanos on the Saturday before the third Sunday of the Exaltation of the Cross. This is a remarkable fact given that Saint Romanos lived after the Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Apostolic Church is non-Chalcedonian. Nevertheless, his music significantly influenced Armenian hymnography. Editions and translations Sancti Romani Melodi Cantica. Vol. 1: Cantica Genuina. – Vol. 2: Cantica Dubia. Ed. by Paul Maas and Constantine A. Trypanis. Oxford, 1963–1970. (complete edition) J. B. Pitra, Analecta Sacra, i. (1876), containing 29 poems, and Sanctus Romanus Veterum Melodorum Princeps (1888), with three additional hymns from the Monastery at Patmos. See also Pitra's Hymnographie de l'église grecque (1867) Karl Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (Munich, 1897) —Studien zu Romanos (Munich, 1899) —Umarbeitungen bei Romanos (Munich, 1899) Notes References Romanos the Melodist article from the Catholic Encyclopedia St. Romanos (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) Further reading Thomas Arentzen, The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist (Philadelphia, 2017) Sarah Gador-Whyte, Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium: The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist (Cambridge UK, 2017) José Grosdidier de Matons, Romanos le Mélode et les origines de la poésie religieuse à Byzance (Paris, 1977) External links The Kontakia of Romanos 71 selections Digitalized manuscripts of Romanos the Melodist at the Princeton University Library 490s births 550s deaths 6th-century composers 5th-century Byzantine people 6th-century Byzantine people Byzantine composers Syrian Christian saints 6th-century Christian saints Byzantine Jews Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire Byzantine saints Byzantine hymnographers