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Jose Antonio Olivar

1939 - 2019 Scripture: Isaiah 9:3 Author of "When the hungry who have nothing share with strangers" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) José Antonio Olivar is also a writer and journalist Efe Agency and a very dear person in Lastres. The son of a seafaring family, Olivier went through difficult times during his childhood. He lost his parents and four brothers and faced the harsh post-war period as an orphan. Hosted by his grandmother, he studied at the Seminary of Covadonga and Oviedo and he built a career of great prestige and recognition throughout the country. He has won several national awards for poetry and has worked as a journalist in popular newspapers and national agencies. In his journalistic work out the last time as deputy director of the magazine "Hello!". Olivar printed in this genre of magazines and friendly style compatible with both newsworthy. He has traveled around the world, interviewing and making friends with the most diverse personalities from all fields of social life, art and politics. It also cites his role as music composer with known letters to both religious and secular songs. The prize "Honor Manín 2012" will be presented by the choir sailor on the eve of the big day the festival of San Roque de Llastres, on August 18th, at eight o'clock. --https://www.lne.es/oriente/2012/06/24/jose-antonio-olivar-subdirector-revista-20866231.html

Miguel Manzano

b. 1934 Scripture: Isaiah 9:3 Author of "When the hungry who have nothing share with strangers" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Miguel Manzano is a Spanish composer and singer. He was born in Aillamor de Cardozo near the border with Portugal. Miguel began his religious musical career at the age of 8 as cantor at the Cathedral of Zamora, Spain. He studied solfeg, piano, organ and harmonium with the renowned teacher, Gaspar Arabaolaza. Later on, he began studies at the Higher School of Sacred Music in Madrid, where he studied Rhythm and Gregorian Modality, as well as Harmony and Religious Polyphony. He furthered his studies of language and musical rhythm at the Catholic Institute of Paris. Miguel's internationally recognized music has been chosen to complete the repertoire of the National Liturgical Hymnal of the Espicopal Committee of Spanish Liturgy. At present he is Professor of Ethnic Music at the Higher Conservatory of Music in Salamanca. --www.ocp.org/artists/1987

Madeleine Forell Marshall

b. 1946 Person Name: Madeleine Forell Marshall, b. 1946 Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Translator of "Toda la tierra (All Earth is Waiting)" in Lift Up Your Hearts

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Author of "The darkness turns to dawn" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Samuel J. Vélez Santiago

Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Translator of "Los que andaban en la oscuridad" in El Himnario

Luis Olivieri

1937 - 2017 Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Composer of "CUPEY" in El Himnario Puerto Rico, University and Seminary Professor, Baptist Minister Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)

Alan Luff

Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Adapter of "Canticle of Light and Darkness" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Joy F. Patterson

b. 1931 Person Name: Joy F. Patterson, 1931- Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Author of "Come, You People of the Promise" in The Covenant Hymnal Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931), of Wassau, Wisconsin, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church who has written many texts and tunes; twenty-nine are collected in Come, You People of the Promise (Hope Publishing, Co., 1994); another collection, Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing, was published in 2005 (Selah). Patterson has enjoyed a varied career as a French professor, homemaker, and claim representative for the Social Security Administration. Sing! A New Creation

Robert Carlton Savage

1914 - 1987 Person Name: Roberto C. Savage Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7 Translator of "Oh ven, bendito Emanuel" in Celebremos Su Gloria Robert Carlson Savage was born in Wisconsin in 1914. He served as a missionary in Colombia and then worked 24 years for HCJB radio in Quito, Ecuador. He edited and compiled several songbooks and hymnals, including Himnos d Fe y Alabanza in 1966. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992