Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester

Today is the date of death [Well, sort of. England at the time was still on the Julian Calendar] of the venerable Lancelot Andrewes, sometime bishop of Winchester and translator of a portion of the Authorised ("King James") Bible.

Some of his works can be found at this link.

Here is the collect we used at our parish's morning prayer yesterday:

O God, who hast put in Thine own power
the times and the seasons; as Thou didst endue
Thy bishop Lancelot Andrewes with the grace
of the Apostolic ministry and the virtue of godly learning,
so give us the like grace that in all fitting and acceptable times
we may pray unto thee and come at last into the fulness
of Thy great glory. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

This is my own composition. The italicized portions are taken and adapted from the "Horology" appearing in a translation of Andrewes' "Preces Privatae".