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ROMANOS , called 6 pehcisbs, See also:Greek hymn-writer, "the See also:Pindar of rhythmic See also:poetry," was See also:born at Emesa (Hems) in See also:Syria. From the scanty notices of his See also:life we learn that he resided in See also:Constantinople during the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Anastasius.9 Having officiated as a See also:deacon in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Resurrection at Berytus, he removed to Constantinople, where he was attached to the churches of Blachernae and See also:Cyrus. According to the See also:legend, when he was asleep in the last-named church, the Virgin appeared to him and commanded him to eat a See also:scroll. On awaking (it was See also:Christmas See also:Day), he immediately mounted the See also:pulpit, and gave forth his famous hymn on the Nativity. Romanos is said to have composed more than soon similar See also:hymns or contakia (Gr. tcovr&Ktov, " scroll ") celebrating the festivals of the ecclesiastical See also:year, the lives of the See also:saints and other sacred subjects—on the See also:death of a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk (extremely impressive); the last See also:judgment; the treachery of Judas; the martyrdom of St See also:Stephen; See also:Simeon
B Digesta Justinian See also:Augusti, recognovit Th. See also:Mommsen (See also:Berlin, 1870).
i Or See also:liber authenticorum. So called because it contained a more See also:complete collection and correcter See also:translation of the Greek Novels than the Epitomeof See also:Julian. It was the one used in the See also:law courts in the See also:middle ages.
9 See Sohm, Institutfonen, § 27, and authorities there cited.
9 On the question whether Anastasius I. (491–518) or II. (713–716) is meant, see Krgmbacher, who is in favour of the earlier date.
See also:Editions: J. B. Pitra, Analecta Sacra, i. (1876), containing 29 poems, and Sanctus See also:Roman us Veterum Melodorum Princeps (1888), with three additional hymns from the monastery of St See also:John in See also:Patmos. See also Pitra's Hymnographie de l'Aglise grecque (1867) ; C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteracur (1897); and HYMNS.
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