St. Isidore of Seville
There's a song in Just Dance called Isidora that is going to be in my head for the next 24 hours after writing this. In a world where the coronavirus has pushed many of our livelihoods and even social lives entirely onto the internet, Isidore of Seville, the patron saint of the internet, is a particularly appropriate intercessor for us to turn to. Lifetime: 560 to 636 Region: Seville, Spain Patronages: The internet; Students; Programmers Iconograpy: Crosier and miter; Book; Bees Feast Day: April 4 Isidore's parents were doing something right, because every child they raised ended up canonized as a saint. Isidore's brothers St. Leander of Seville and St. Fulgentius of Cartagena, and his sister St. Florentina of Caragena all join him among the Roman (and Eastern Orthodox) canon. As with St. Nicholas and St. Anthony the Great , St. Isidore was involved in combating the Arian heresy. I'm not sure there's any other movement in history that produced as m...