Romano Mwimbaji

Romano Mwimbaji (Homs au Damasko, Syria, 490 hivi - Konstantinopoli, leo nchini Uturuki, 556 hivi) alikuwa shemasi mwenye asili ya Kiyahudi aliyeishi katika monasteri na kutunga tenzi maarufu hadi leo ambazo zimemfanya labda bora kati ya watunzi wote wa muziki wa Kikristo.

Picha takatifu ya Mt. Romano (1649).

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 1 Oktoba.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Matoleo na tafsiri

• 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)

Uchunguzi

• 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)

Marejeo

• Penguin Dictionary of Saints
• Romanos the Melodist article from the Catholic Encyclopedia
• St. Romanos (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia)
• Schork, R. J. (1962). "Typology in the Kontakia of Romanos". Studia Patristica (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag). 6 (Papers presented to the Third International Conference on Patristic Studies held at Christ Church, Oxford, 1959, Part IV Theologica, Augustiniana, ed. F. L. Cross): 210–220. 

Viungo vya nje

• The Kontakia of Romanos 71 selections
• Digitalized manuscripts of Romanos the Melodist at the Princeton University Library

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