In his series of Catecheses on the Fathers of the Church, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about “a little-known figure: Romanus the Melodist.” Romanus is one of the Fathers who shows the splendor of the truth ...
"I am one of those whose life is cruel, whose tears flow like a fountain, and who turns a sigh into a word with the monotonous ending of song lines." In 1045, Grigor Magistros's poem "A Thousand Lines ...