Isidore Farmer

Description

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. 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 and possibly brought out in processions to summon rain, 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.