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Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – 15 May 1130), was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid.Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is venerated as a Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid; El Gobernador, Jalisco; La Ceiba, Honduras; and of Tocoa, Honduras.
Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – 15 May 1130), was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid.Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is venerated as a Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid; El Gobernador, Jalisco; La Ceiba, Honduras; and of Tocoa, Honduras.
Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert , as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
Procession for Santa María de la Cabeza in Madrid (2011) After Isidore's death, Maria became a hermit. She was said to have performed miracles and merited after her death the byname de la Cabeza, because the relic of her head (conserved in a reliquary and carried in procession) has often brought rain from heaven to dry countrysides.
San Isidro Church, Madrid, a baroque church in central Madrid, Spain, which holds the relics of Isidore the Laborer; San Isidro Movement, a Cuban dissident group; San Isidro (Panama Metro), a rapid transit station in Panama City; San Ysidro Ranch, a hotel and resort near Santa Barbara, California
While other texts from this time mention the story of St. Isidora, the Lausiac History is the most commonly referenced text about the saint's life. Isidora's birthdate is unknown, as is her age at the time she joined the Tabenna Monastery in Egypt. Tabenna, or Tabennesi, was the original monastery established by St. Pachomius sometime after 325 AD.
The pediment of San Joaquin Church featuring the Battle of Tétouan. The features of note of the church are its three retablos of carved limestone which were formerly polychromed, the carved pediment which featured the folk portrayal of the Spanish winning over the Moors at the Battle near Tétouan, Morocco as well as its adjacent sprawling ruins where an oven well and kiln for baking can be ...
Leander, Isidore and their siblings belonged to an elite family of Hispano-Roman stock of Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena). Their father Severianus is claimed to have been a dux or governor of Carthago Spartaria, according to their hagiographers, though this seems more of a fanciful interpretation since Isidore simply states that he was a citizen.