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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.
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.
San Isidro Labrador Parish Church, commonly known as Lazi Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Lazi, Siquijor, Philippines within the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Dumaguete.
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 of Chios (d. 251), martyr from Roman Egypt; Isidore of Scété (died c. 390), Egyptian priest and desert ascetic; 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
The church is built in a Baroque style using limestone, with massive boulders serving as buttresses along the front and nave walls. The facade is simple, with minimal decoration, featuring an arched portal flanked by pilasters and scroll work, as well as arch and round windows.
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.