St. Isidore - Los Alamitos, CA
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N 33° 48.200 W 118° 04.170
11S E 401004 N 3740864
A statue of St. Isidore at St. Isidore Catholic Church in Los Alamitos, California.
Waymark Code: WM16141
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2022
Views: 2
Photos taken on 9 April 2022. The statue is made out of ceramic and stands about 5 feet tall above a small 2-3 foot cement platform. Taken from Wikipedia, "Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar and cleric. For over three decades, he was Archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
At a time of disintegration of classical culture, aristocratic violence and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after his brother's death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.
His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost. He also invented the period (full stop), comma, and colon."
Associated Religion(s): Christianity
Statue Location: St. Isidore Catholic Church
Entrance Fee: 0
Artist: Not listed
Website: Not listed
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