✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: May 15

St. Isidore the Farmer

St. Isidore the Farmer

Layman · c. 1070–1130

Patron of Farmers, rural communities, laborers

A Spanish farm laborer who attended Mass every morning before work and shared his meager food with the poorer still.

Fellow workers complained he arrived late from morning Mass — until, legend says, they saw angels plowing alongside him to make up the time.

Image: artist unknown (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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