From Monachos.net
Troparion, Tone 5: Like the Prophet David thou didst sing a new song / in the assembly of the righteous. / Thou initiate of the Holy Spirit, / thou didst thunder forth thy hymns of grace / and the word of righteousness for our salvation, / O Andrew glory of the Fathers.
Kontakion, Tone 2: Thou didst sound forth the divine melodies like a trumpet / and wast a bright lamp for the world. / Thou didst shine with the light of the Trinity, O righteous Andrew. / Wherefore we cry to thee: / Ever intercede for us all.
St. Andrew of Crete (c. 660-740), whose Great Canon is prayed during Lent, was born in Damascus, later to become a monk at Mar Saba. St Andrew served later at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, andwas ordained a deacon at Hagia Sophia c.685. Running refuge for orphans and caring for the elderly, the Saint spent his last days as Archbishop of Gortyna on Crete, a position to which he was elevated in 692. Attributed by many with the invention of the canon as a style of religious writing, his works display not only great rhetorical skill, but a depth of theological understanding possessed by ever fewer in these latter days. He is considered one of the great saints of repentance, and his Great Canon stands alone as a great monument to man's repentant cry to God.