The Story of Saint Isidore the Farmer, Whose Catholic Feast Day in 2016 is Sunday, May 15

[mdgspencer]

see catholickingdom.com/Monastery/Lives%20of%20the%20Saints/Lives_Texts/Male/Isidore%20the%20Farmer.html
Saint Isidore was a devout laborer in Spain sent off as a boy to plow the fields of a prosperous farmer, for whom he was a worker his whole life. Accounts of miraculous events, sometimes of great charm, accompany his life, involving the angels seen helping him and the food that miraculously multiplied when he fed the poor, and involving the miracles that occurred after his death. An important saint for the Spanish, he is revered in many countries today, and is the patron of farmers and agricultural workers.
This year, in 2016, his feast day falls on Pentecost Sunday.

 

[Mintaka]

His wife was great, too! Blessed Maria Toribia de la Cabeza (known in Spain as St. Maria de la Cabeza) was a saintly peasant woman worthy of him. She always kept a pot of stew ready for all the people in need whom her husband would inevitably bring home to dinner.

After his death, she lived as a hermit. She had many visions and performed many miracles through prayer. Her head was preserved as a relic, and is associated with many healings and miracles. (Hence her nickname of “de la Cabeza,” meaning “of the head.”)

 

[fbl9]

Thanks.
farmboyl9