Healer! Heal me!
St. Romanos the Melodist (fl. 536–556), Kontakion 23 (sometimes 12) on Mk 5:25-34 (the woman with a hemorrhage; cf. Mt 9:20-22 & Lk 8:43-48). See SC 114 (=Romanos le Mélode Hymnes 3), ed. Grosdidier de Matons, pp. 79-101 (Hymne de l’hémorroïsse). This powerful refrain is worked in at the end of each of the 21 strophes of this composition.
Image: Evangelist Painter T'oros of Taron, The healing of the woman with a hemorrhage (c. 1300), from Thomas F. Matthews and Alice Taylor, The Armenian gospels of Gladzor: the life of Christ illuminated (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2001), plate 57 (p. 216 in the manuscript).
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