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  Isidore of Seville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isidore was born in Cartagena, Spain, to Severianus and Theodora, part of an influential family who were instrumental in the political-religious maneuvering that converted the Visigothic kings from Arianism to Catholicism, and were all awarded sainthoods:
Isidore's Latin style in the ‘’Etymologiae‘’ and elsewhere, though simple and lucid, cannot be said to be classical, affected as it was by local Visigothic traditions.
Isidore was the last of the ancient Christian Philosophers, as he was the last of the great Latin Church Fathers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isidore_of_Seville   (1305 words)

  
 Isidore of Seville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Saint Isidore of Seville (560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early middle ages.
Isidore was born in Cartagena, Spain, to an influential family: his brother Leander immediately preceded him as archbishop of Seville, his younger brother was also a bishop, and their sister was an abbess in charge of forty convents.
The depository of classical culture in Isidore's compendium was so highly regarded that in a great measure it superseded the use of the individual works of the classics themselves, and many were not recopied and are lost.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Isidore_of_Seville.html   (904 words)

  
 TPC NHC ISIDORE 1996 PRELIMINARY REPORT
Hurricane Isidore formed from a tropical wave that had a well-defined cyclonic circulation of clouds and was clearly marked at mid-levels in the Dakar sounding data when it crossed the west coast of Africa on 22 September 1996.
The eye disappeared on the 29th and upper-level westerly to southwesterly winds of around 60 knots contributed to a shearing and weakening of Isidore, down to a tropical storm with an exposed low-level cloud center on the 29th, and then to a tropical depression on the 1st.
Isidore passed through the eastern part of the NOAA drifting buoy network.
www.nhc.noaa.gov /1996isidore.html   (639 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Isidore of Seville
Isidore was the son of Severianus and Theodora.
In all justice it may be said that it was in a great measure due to the enlightened statecraft of these two illustrious brothers the Visigothic legislation, which emanated from these councils, is regarded by modern historians as exercising a most important influence on the beginnings of representative government.
Isidore was the last of the ancient Christian Philosophers, as he was the last of the great Latin Fathers.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08186a.htm   (2482 words)

  
 St. Isidore - Stow Massachusetts
Isidore was born in Madrid, Spain, 1070; died there in 1130; canonized in 1622.
When he spoke to Isidore and enquired about the second plough he had seen, Isidore replied in surprise: "Sir, I work alone and know of none save God to whom I look for strength." Thus the story grew that so great was his sanctity that the angels helped him even in his plowing.
She became a hermit like St. Isidore; Maria, too, performed miracles and merited after her death the name of Santa Maria de la Cabeza, meaning Head, because her head, conserved in a reliquary and carried in procession, has often brought down rain from heaven for the afflicted countryside.
www.stisidorestow.org /About/stIsidore.html   (892 words)

  
 St. Isidore
Isidore was a simple man of the earth, who attended daily Mass and demonstrated love of people and animals by his many acts of kindness and mercy.
Isidore is also said to have brought back to life the deceased daughter of his master and to have caused a fountain of fresh water to burst from the dry earth in order to quench the thirst of his master.
Isidore and his wife are examples for us today of a married couple that sanctified their daily duties.
www.stisidore-yubacity.org /stisidore.htm   (961 words)

  
 Isidore Horse Landfall in Louisiana
Isidore means gift of Isis, who was the Egyptian mother goddess that claimed to be the mother of the savior of mankind.
Isidore as a horse associated with Arafat and the Palestinians continued to emphasize the real issue of criminality versus war.
Tropical Storm Isidore has consistently had the double meaning of Yasser Arafat as the leader of the war against Israel and President Bush's failure to recognize the true enemy and his push to start a war against Iraq.
www.biblenews1.com /history2/20020926.htm   (992 words)

  
 Isidore of Seville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Saint Isidore of Seville (560 - April 4 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and the reputation of being one of the scholars of the early middle ages.
Isidore's mastery of Greek and Hebrew has him a reputation of being an enthusiastic apt student.
The church is free and yet bound in solemn allegiance to the king: nothing is said of allegiance to bishop of Rome.
www.freeglossary.com /Isidore_of_Seville   (527 words)

  
 National Hurricane Center Tropical Cyclone Report
Isidore moved very close to the south of Cayman Brac, which reported sustained winds of 42 knots with gusts to 61 knots at 0325 UTC 19 September.
Isidore's peak intensity of 110 knots at 1800 UTC 21 September, was a compromised between adjusted aircraft flight-level winds and satellite estimates.
Later, when a weakened Isidore was heading for Louisiana, it reached 55-knot winds based on data from the "Deepwater Pathfinder", which reported sustained winds of 56 knots with gusts to 71 knots and 20 ft waves at 1743 UTC 27 September.
www.nhc.noaa.gov /2002isidore.shtml   (2223 words)

  
 Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Isodore of Seville
Isidore was born to Severain and Theodora, highborn citizens of Carthagena, Spain.
Isidore, having received an education, and also deciding to devote himself to the service of the Church, assisted his brother Leander the Archbishop of Seville in converting the Visigoths from the Arian heresy.
Isidore must have been considerably younger than his siblings, because he is recorded as receiving his elementary education at the Cathedral school of Seville.
www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980301/SAINTS/STISODORE.HTM   (1208 words)

  
 Bl. Isidore Bakanja
Somehow Isidore Bakanja, a young Congolese, fell under the happy influence of some Belgian Trappist missionaries, and received baptism when he was about 18.
Since Isidore was lonely as the only Catholic in his village, he yearned to live in a more Christian region.
Isidore soon felt the effects of this form of colonial pressure.
www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id821.htm   (751 words)

  
 isidore original St - Google Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Isidore's Church, a former schoolhouse called "The Academy", where the First Mass was offered in 1903.
Isidore is that, since we have original sin, it is not true that our virtue will always appear when we deal with others.
Isidore’s, and burial plots are purchased by fifth and sixth generations of the original...
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 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Isidore at the time was essentially drifting from the Caribbean into the Gulf of Mexico, and had just crossed the western end of Cuba.
Isidore is now moving north from the southern Gulf of Mexico, after pummeling Mexico, and is poised to hit the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline — possibly as the first hurricane to threaten the USA in three years — by Thursday morning.
As Isidore passed over the array of ocean probes dropped on Sept. 19, scientists collected data aboard the P-3s that describes the complete structure of both the storm and the ocean beneath it.
usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2002/2002-09-25-isidore-research.htm   (986 words)

  
 Isidore and Maria Award of 1998
Isidore was born in Madrid, Spain, about the year 1110.
Isidore died on May 15, 1170; his wife Maria died a little later.
Isidore was constituted as the special protector of American farmers on February 22, 1947 and of the NCRLC.
www.ncrlc.com /PR-IMAWARD98.html   (560 words)

  
 St Isidore of Seville
St Isidore is honoured in Spain as the most illustrious doctor of that church, in which God raised him, says St. Braulio,1 to stem the torrent of barbarism and ferocity which everywhere followed the arms of the Goths, who had settled themselves in that kingdom in 412.
Isidore having qualified himself in his youth for the service of the church by an uncommon stock of virtue and learning, assisted his brother, Leander, Archbishop of Seville, in the conversion of the Visigoths from the Arian heresy.
Isidore, to extend to posterity the advantages which his labours had procured to the church, compiled many useful works, in which he takes in the whole circle of the sciences, and discovers a most extensive reading, and a general acquaintance with the ancient writers, both sacred and profane.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/ISIDSEV.htm   (748 words)

  
 CNN.com - Isidore makes landfall - Sep. 22, 2002
Hurricane Isidore weakened slightly Sunday as it moved inland across the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, but the storm pounded the region with heavy rains and high winds.
Isidore, the second hurricane of the Atlantic season, was likely to dump 10 to 20 inches in the Yucatan, forecasters said.
Isidore is expected to make a turn to the west-southwest over the next 24 hours, forecasters said, and could briefly make landfall on the Yucatan's northwestern tip before heading back out to sea.
www.cnn.com /2002/WEATHER/09/22/isidore/index.html   (782 words)

  
 Father Pat's Place  :  :  :  Saint Isidore the Farmer
Born in Madrid, Spain, 1070; died there in 1130; canonized in 1622; feast day formerly on May 10 and March 22, and October 25 in the U.S.A. Saint Isidore's feast is celebrated in Madrid, Spain, with ringing church bells and streets decorated for a procession in his honor.
The statue of Saint Isidore pictured is one Father Pat brought back on a visit to Madrid in the year 2000.
O holy Isidore, intercede with our Lord to send angels to aid us in opening our hearts so that one day, enlightened by God’s wisdom and having grown in God's likeness, we may join you and all the Saints in Heaven.
www.frpat.com /isidore_farmer.htm   (951 words)

  
 The History of St. Isidore's Roman Catholic Church of Riverhead, NY
In conversation with the older residents of Riverhead and members of St. Isidore's Parish, it was established that among the first 'colonists' of Polish birth were Ignatius Ruszkowski and Joseph Przyborowski.
In order to break ground for the new St. Isidore's Church, the temporary Church (the schoolhouse) had to be moved to a site immediately adjacent on the corner of Cemetery Road (Pulaski Street) and Marcy Avenue, which at that time was merely a narrow dirt path.
A third son of St. Isidore's in the Priesthood is the Reverend Francis Filmanski, ordained June 6, 1953.
www.fiu.edu /~kneskij/isidore/home.htm   (4026 words)

  
 Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida
Isidore was born in 560 AD to a noble family in Cartgena, Spain.
Succeeding his brother, Isidore served for 36 years as archbishop of Seville, and was known for his emphasis on education.
The proposal for such a move was made in 1999, with Spanish Catholic bishops advocating St. Isidore as the best candidate on the grounds that in the 7th century he produced one of the world's first databases in the form of a twenty-volume encyclopedia called the Etymologies.
diosef.org /isidore   (305 words)

  
 St. Isidore, Bishop & Doctor
Whether St. Isidore ever embraced monastic life or not is still an open question, but though he himself may never have been affiliated with any of the religious orders, he esteemed them highly.
Saint Isidore was a key figure at the Council of Toledo, in 633.
He was known for his concern for the proper formation of the clergy, for his generosity to the poor and for his humility: when he knew he was dying he asked publicly for forgiveness for the faults of his past life.
www.wf-f.org /StIsidore.html   (1071 words)

  
 St. Isidore the Farmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Everything was going fine for Isidore until one day his fellow-laborers complained to their boss that he was always late for work in the morning.
Now if that didn't make Isidore popular with his boss certainly bringing the boss' deceased daughter back to life and causing a fountain of fresh water to burst from the dry ground in order to quench the boss' thirst did.
Isidore died in 1130 and was canonized by Pope Gregory XV, along with saints Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Teresa, and Philip Neri on March 12, 1622.
www.monksofadoration.org /Isidore.html   (607 words)

  
 SatireWire | Saint Isidore, Hear Our Internet Prayers
Beloved and Empathetic St. Isidore, whose works kept many from disappearing into the precipice of ignorance, I want to ask about my dotcom -- and before you interrupt, yes, I already prayed to St. Anthony the Wonder Worker and St. Rita, patroness of lost causes, and they were really rude, truth be told.
Beloved St. Isidore, in your intellectual labors you separated the wheat from the chaff and protected the people from mindless vice and inanity.
Pious St. Isidore, who built a bridge from ignorance to learning and helped people connect to a vast network of knowledge, I kneel before you humbly to apologize for earlier using the word f***** in your presence and inform that you the DSL is now correctly installed, thanks be to God and your goodwill.
www.satirewire.com /news/0102/isidore.shtml   (538 words)

  
 nbcweatherplus.com - Hurricane - Isidore's Path, Strength Happened Before
Satellite pictures from Monday showed that when Isidore was a 125 mph hurricane, the storm had weakened since the eye went over Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
Isidore has been moving so slowly because there wasn't anything to steer the storm.
According to Schwartz, the closest storm in history to Isidore, was Hurricane Carmen in 1974.
www.nbc10.com /hurricanes/1684253/detail.html   (332 words)

  
 Raw Vision
Yet the two had this much in common: Isidore claimed to be guided by a spirit, and Cheval by a dream, while both were inspired by a chance encounter with an unusual pebble along the roadside.
Isidore retired from his job at the cemetery in 1956 in order to devote himself wholly to his rapidly expanding mission.
Isidore associated his daily job with the living death of material existence, and his evening's creative labour, with his spiritual life.
www.rawvision.com /back/picassiette/picass.html   (1547 words)

  
 Vasilishki- & Rozanka - memoirs of Isidore Remz
Isidore's father David REMZ was born in 1840, probably in the shtetl or environs of Vasilishki where his father Ze'ev and brothers are known to have lived.
Dora Vendrovsky was the same age as Isidore, pretty and with a lively personality that must have stayed in his memory over the many years.
Isidore then stayed one week at each sister's house, just eating and sleeping.
www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /Lida-District/remz.htm   (972 words)

  
 Isidore and Maria Award of 2002
Brother David G. Andrews, CSC, executive director of NCRLC, said the Isidore and Maria Award honors a rural couple who exemplify a vocation to farm life and a love which combines family, integrity, stewardship and religion.
Saint Isidore and Maria are the patron saints of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
The earthly remains of the couple are found over the main altar in the cathedral of St. Isidore in Madrid.
www.ncrlc.com /PR-IMAWARD02.html   (404 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hurricane Isidore nears Cuba - Sep. 19, 2002
Bringing a deluge of rain, Hurricane Isidore strengthened early Friday as it neared western Cuba, including the Isle of Youth, the National Hurricane Center said.
Isidore gained strength Thursday to become the second hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a news release.
EDT Friday, the center of Hurricane Isidore was located about 30 miles south of the southern part of the Isle of Youth, or 140 miles south-southwest of Havana..
edition.cnn.com /2002/WEATHER/09/19/isidore   (351 words)

  
 Saints - Isidore the Farmer
Isidore the Farmer, born of a poor family near Madrid, Spain, was raised devoted to the faith; in fact, Isidore was named after his parent's patron saint, Isidore of Seville.
When de Vargas investigated the allegations for himself, he did indeed find that Isidore was reporting to work late but his work was not suffering… what John de Vargas saw for himself was that unseen powers (which he surmised were in fact angels) were leading snow-white oxen on their plowing chores.
In another miracle, Isidore shared some of his grain with hungry birds, but when the grain that remained was turned into flour, the amount was more than double what should have been produced by a full sack.
www.scborromeo.org /saints/isidore.htm   (241 words)

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