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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 (Ancient Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Πηλουσιώτης, d. c.450) was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic , and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium , in the tradition of the Desert Fathers .
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 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
Since the thirteenth century, the Royal Congregation of Saint Isidor has promoted and spread this concept and example of holy matrimony set by Ss. Isidore and Mary of the Head. [1] In July 2011, three rural parishes in the Diocese of Rochester, were united into one parish under the patronage of Ss. Isidore and Maria Torribia.
She was the second daughter of Isidore Guérin and Louise-Jeanne Macé. [5] She had an older sister, Marie-Louise, who became a Visitandine nun, and a younger brother, Isidore, who was a pharmacist. Her maternal family was from the Madré, in the neighbouring department of Mayenne, where her grandfather, Louis Macé, was baptised on 16 March 1778.
The next year, he went to Rome as chaplain to the Spanish ambassador to the Papal States, Bishop Antonio Trejo de Sande, O.F.M. Wadding collected the funds for the establishment of the College of St. Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 24 June 1625, with four lecturers – Anthony O'Hicidh of a famous literary family in ...