In his last Summer Saints audio, Canon Gordon Giles tells us about the glittering career of Lancelot Andrewes, who as an avid linguist, was responsible for overseeing some of the translations of King James' Bible and the very well-known words of the 23rd Psalm.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a multi-talented German Benedictine abbess. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history.

This week Revd Canon Gordon Giles tell us about Charles Fuge Lowder, one of Victorian London's best-known 'slum priests'. For him, mission was not a short-lived campaign but a permanent Christian presence in an area where the Church had no foothold.

Gregory I is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the then-pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity. Canon Gordon Giles enlightens us in this short video.

St Monica was an African Christian saint, the mother of St Augustine and honoured for her Christian virtues and prayerful life. Canon Gordon Giles brings us a fifth saint this summer and enlightens us in this short video.

Bernard of Clairvaux was a French abbot and a major leader in the revitalization of Benedictine monasticism through the nascent Order of Cistercians. St Bernard died on this day in 1153. Canon Gordon Giles tells us more in this short audio.