Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Romanus, a solitary
Romanus (7), a solitary, born and
brought up at Rhosus, who retired to a cell
on the mountains near Antioch, where he lived to
extreme old age, practising the utmost austerities.
Theodoret describes him as conspicuous for
simplicity and meekness, attracting
to his cell by the beauty of his character large
numbers, over whom he exercised a salutary
influence (Theod. Hist. Relig. c. xi.).
[E.V.]