Romanos The Melodist - Iconographic Depiction

Iconographic Depiction

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Although in more recent icons Saint Romanos is depicted standing on the ambo (directly in front of the iconostasis) and wearing a deacon's sticharion, the famous Russian church musicologist, Johann von Gardner, points out that in the oldest icons he is portrayed wearing the shorter red tunic of a singer and standing on a raised platform in the middle of the church.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, Saint Romanos is the patron saint of church singers.