May 15
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Isidore the Farmer

St. Isidore the Farmer

farmer, patron of agriculture · c. 1070 – 1130
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain.
— Ps 127:1

A farm labourer of Madrid who all his life worked another man's field. Every morning he went to Mass, and legend says angels ploughed for him meanwhile. With his wife he shared his last crumbs with the poor. Prayer does not take time – it multiplies it.

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