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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.
Agawan Festival is an annual harvest festival held in Sariaya, Quezon, Philippines every 15 May in honor to Saint Isidore the Laborer, [2] the patron saint of agriculture and good harvest. The celebration is known as the Happy Pandemonium and one of the four harvest festivals celebrated in the province of Quezon every May 14 [ 3 ] or 15th.
Isidore (/ ˈ ɪ z ɪ d ɔːr / IZ-id-or; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is a masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name Isídōros (Ἰσίδωρος, latinized Isidorus ) and can literally be translated to 'gift of Isis '.
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
Isidore also made use of a partially lost chronicle of Maximus of Zaragoza. For events in Spain between 590 and 624 Isidore is the modern historian's primary source. The Historia was composed in two versions, both surviving. The first, completed probably in 619, the year of the death of king Sisebut, is shorter.
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
The neo-classical cathedral, begun in 1794, is dedicated to the Spaniard St. Isidore, patron of Madrid. Other sights include: Oratory of St. Filippo Neri (18th century) Sanctuary of Maria Santissima della Strada, the oldest church in the town (dating to 1081). Today little remains of the original medieval structure, having been replaced by a ...