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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 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".
St. Isidore's Basilica (Spanish: Basílica de San Isidoro) is a Catholic church in the city of León, Castile and León, Spain, located on the site of an ancient Roman temple. Its Christian roots can be traced back to the early 10th century when a monastery for Saint John the Baptist was erected on the grounds.
A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The monastery was founded by a gift from the nobleman Ottaviano Vestri di Barbiano, as shown in a bull of pope Urban VIII of 1625. Its construction was begun in response to pope Gregory XV's 1622 canonisation of Isidore of Madrid and four other saints – in that year, some Spanish Discalced Franciscans arrived in Rome wanting to found a convent for Spaniards and build a church dedicated to ...
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.
Isidore of Pelusium (died c. 449), Egyptian monk, saint and prolific letter writer; Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), Catholic saint and scholar, last of the Fathers of the Church and Archbishop of Seville; Isidore the Laborer (c. 1070–1130), Spanish religious leader; Isidore I of Constantinople (died 1350), Greek Ecumenical Patriarch (1347 ...
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