Short Name: | Cosmas, the Melodist |
Full Name: | Cosmas, the Melodian, Saint, ca. 706-ca. 760 |
Birth Year: | 706 |
Death Year (est.): | 760 |
Cosmas, St., The Melodist. (Died circ. A.D. 760.) The second among the Greek ecclesiastical poets. He was adopted by the father of St. John of Damascus, and educated with him by a Sicilian monk also named Cosmas, who had been redeemed from slavery by his adopted father. The two foster-brothers retired together to St. Sabas, and there stimulated, assisted and vied witii one another in the composition of hymns. It is not certain whether some of the Canons, Triodia, and Idiomela under the name of Cosmas may not be the work of the elder Cosmas. He was elected Bishop of Maiuma in A.D. 743, and is commemorated in the Greek Calendar on Oct. 14. The story of Cosmas the elder is beautifully told in Milman's Lat. Christ., vol. ii. 364. Daniel, vol. iii., gives 12 pieces by him, and Dr. Neale has translated in his Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1862, the Canon for Christmas Day, and a cento from that for the Transfiguration. To English readers he is known through the translation of this cento, "The choirs of ransom'd Israel," and its abbreviated form, "In days of old on Sinai." [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Cosmas, the Melodist (17) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Χριστὸς γεννᾶται, δοξάσατε | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | Greek | 2 |
O Jesus, Lover of our race | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 2 |
Ῥάβδος ἐχ τῆς ῥίζης Ἰεσσαὶ | Cosmas the Melodist, 8th century (Author) | Greek | 2 |
വാനോർ വാ-ഴ്ത്തും ക്രിസ്തു യേശു (Vānēār vā-ḻttuṁ kristu yēśu) | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | Malayalam | 2 |
Christ is born, go forth to meet Him | Cosmas the Melodist (Author) | English | 3 |
Father of Peace, and God of Consolation | Cosmas Saint (Author) | English | 3 |
Him of the Father's Very Essence | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 3 |
O Wondrous Mystery, Full of Passing Grace | Cosmas Saint (Author) | English | 3 |
The Choirs of Ransomed Israel | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 3 |
The dewy freshness that the furnace flings | Cosmas Saint (Author) | English | 3 |
The Holy Children Boldly Stand | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 3 |
He who with His mighty hand | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 4 |
In days of old on Sinai | Cosmas of Jerusalem, fl. 8th century) (Author) | English | 4 |
Rod of the Root of Jesse | Cosmas the Melodist (Author) | English | 4 |
The sepulchre is holding | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | 4 | |
As Jonah, Issuing from His Three Days' Tomb | Cosmas, the Melodist (Author) | English | 5 |
Christ is Born! Tell Forth His Fame! | Cosmas the Melodist (Author) | English | 7 |