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Isidore the Farm Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer ((スペイン語:San Isidro Labrador)) (c. 1070 – 15 May 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 15 May. The Spanish word ''labrador'' means someone who works the land,〔(Spanish-English dictionary )〕〔(Merriam-Webster Spanish Central )〕 not a worker in general, which in Spanish would be ''obrero'',〔(Collins Spanish-English Dictionary )〕〔(Word Reference Spanish-English )〕 or ''trabajador''.〔(Spanish-English dictionary )〕〔(Collins Spanish-English Dictionary )〕 His real name was Isidro de Merlo y Quintana. ==Biography== 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.〔(Butler, Alban. ''The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints'', Vol. V, D. & J. Sadlier, & Company, 1864 )〕 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 because her head (''cabeza'' in Spanish) was kept in a chapel〔http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/ISIDORE.htm〕 and possibly brought out in processions to summon rain,〔http://www.ncrlc.com/page.aspx?ID=91〕 although 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 15 May 1130, at his birthplace close to Madrid although the only official source places his death in the year 1172.〔http://www.abc.es/madrid/20140515/abci-idas-venidas-cuerpo-incorrupto-201405141334.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isidore the Laborer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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