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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".
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 Pelusium (d. c. 450), monk from Roman Egypt Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), scholar and Archbishop of Seville, Spain Isidore the Laborer (c. 1070–1130), peasant and patron saint of Madrid, Spain
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.
ISIDORE (St.) (Jan. 15) (4th cent) An Egyptian priest and ascetic, the spiritual father of more than a thousand monks, the friend and supporter of St. Athanasius and later of St. John Chrysostom. He played a notable part in the controversies of his time, and underwent much unjust persecution at the hands of Theophilus of Alexandria.
Saint Isidore of Alexandria was an early Christian saint. According to Alban Butler, He was taken from his cell where he had passed many years in the desert, ordained priest, and placed in the dignity of hospitaller, by St. Athanasius. He lived in that great city a perfect model of meekness, patience, mortification, and prayer.
St. Isidore is seeking to become the nation’s first Catholic virtual charter school, and the case is being eyed closely due to its religious overtones and potential for a precedent-setting ...
Isidore Bakanja (c. 1887 – 15 August 1909) was a Congolese Catholic layman and bricklayer who suffered martyrdom in 1909 and was beatified on 24 April 1994 by Pope John Paul II. Due to the nature of his martyrdom, he is sometimes referred to as "martyr of the Brown scapular".