Today we commemorate the lives and witness of Sergius, an esteemed Russian Orthodox abbot who died on this day in 1392, and Lancelot Andrewes, who died in 1626, and who was among the ablest and most influential of English theologians and preachers in his lifetime. Andrewes was a leading translator of the King James Version of the Bible. He served in important positions, among them dean of Westminster Abbey and later bishop of Westminster. T.S. Elliot famously adapted the beginning of Andrewes’ sermon on the Visit of the Magi for his poem, “The Journey of the Magi.” These are Andrewes’ words from 1622:
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