Saint Isidore

Saint Isidore

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop

Saint Isidore

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Isidore: April 4
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop
  • Date of Death: Saint Isidore died April 4, 636
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Isidore
The story and history of Saint Isidore. Isidore was born of a ducal family, at Carthagena in Spain. His two brothers, Leander, Archbishop of Seville, Fulgentius, Bishop of Ecija, and his sister Florentina, are Saints. As a boy he despaired at his ill success in study, and ran away from school. Resting in his flight at a roadside spring, he observed a stone, which was hollowed out by the dripping water. This decided him to return, and by hard application he succeeded where he had failed. He went back to his master, and with the help of God became, even as a youth, one of the most learned men of the time. He assisted in converting Prince Recared, the leader of the Arian party; and with his aid, though at the constant peril of his own life, he expelled that heresy from Spain.

Then, following a call from God, he turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of his friends, and embraced a hermit's life. Prince Recared and many of the nobles and clergy of Seville went to persuade him to come forth, and represented the needs of the times, and the good he could do, and had already done, among the people. He refused, and, as far as we can judge, that refusal gave him the necessary opportunity of acquiring the virtue and the power which afterwards made him an illustrious Bishop and Doctor of the Church. On the death of his brother Leander he was called to fill the vacant see. As a teacher, ruler, founder, and reformer, he labored not only in his own diocese, but throughout Spain, and even in foreign countries.

Isidore was the first Christian writer to take on the task of compiling a summary of Catholic theology in the form of his most important work, the Etymologiae. Its title was taken from the method he used in the transcription of his era's knowledge. He died in Seville on April 4, 636, and within sixteen years of his death was declared a Doctor of the Catholic Church.

Feast Day of Saint Isidore
The Feast Day of Saint Isidore is April 4. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

Prayer to St. Isidore

 

Saint Isidore

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Isidore
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Isidore
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Isidore - April 4
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: April 4, 636
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Isidore
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop
 
 

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Saint Isidore