Saint Joseph the Hymnographer

Saint Joseph the Hymnographer was an accomplished poet who penned many of the Canons from the Paraklitike and Menaion. One of his most famous works is the Canon of the Akathist. The 9th Odes of his Canons were often 5 Troparia long, to accommodate his name as an acrostic - Ἰωσήφ.