Isidore the Farm Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – May 15, 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid, and of La Ceiba, Honduras. His feast day is celebrated on May 15.
The Spanish word labrador means someone who works the land, not a worker in general, which in Spanish would be obreroor trabajador. His real name was Isidro de Merlo y Quintana.
Isidore was born in Madrid, in about the year 1070, of poor but very devout parents, and was christened Isidore from the name of their patron, St. Isidore of Seville. Isidore spent his life as a hired hand in the service of the wealthy Madrilenian landowner Juan de Vargas on a farm in the city's vicinity. He shared what he had, even his meals, with the poor. Juan de Vargas would later make him bailiff of his entire estate of Lower Caramanca.
It was said that he stood two meters (6.5 feet) tall.
Isidore married Maria Torribia, known as Santa María de la Cabeza in Spain; she has never been canonized, pending confirmation by Pope Francis. Isidore and Maria had one son. On one occasion, their son fell into a deep well and, at the prayers of his parents, the water of the well is said to have risen miraculously to the level of the ground, bringing the child with it. In thanksgiving Isidore and Maria then vowed sexual abstinence and lived in separate houses. Their son later died in his youth.
Isidore died on May 15, 1130, at his birthplace close to Madrid although the only official source places his death in the year 1172.
The general attributes of sculpture of St. Isidor: spade, hoe, scythe, flail, plough
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Po bocích podstavce stojí andelé se štíty prisazenými k podstavci. Figura
sv. Isidora se pravou rukou opírá o rýc. O malý podstavec, na kterém je
umístena socha sv. Isidora, se zády opírají drobné figurky andílku.
Z celního pohledu pravý andílek drží atribut svetce – klobouk a levý
andílek pridržuje levou rukou lopatku pluhu.
Obecné atributy vyobrazení sv. Isidora: vidle, cep, pluh, kosa, motyka, rýc, radlice, ruženec, díte; je též zobrazován s andely, kterí mu pomáhají orat
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