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ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE - A Hagiography (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul P. - 2022 CE)

ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE - A Hagiography (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul P. - 2022 CE) | ====================================
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE - A Hagiography
And Look Into The Life Of The Patron-Saint
Of The Internet (By SimoTheFinlandized /
Paul Palazzolo - 2022 CE):
====================================
St. Isidore Of Seville was literally
born into a family of saints in sixth-
century Hispano-Roman Spain. Two
of his brothers, Leander and Fulgentius,
and one of his sisters, Florentina, are
all collectively revered as saints in Spain.
It was also a family of great ecclesiastical
leaders and strong above-average intelligent
minds, with both Leander and Fulgentius
serving as influential Spanish bishops,
in addition to Florentina being an abbess.
====================================
This genius-level intelligence and nigh-genetic
predisposition to the Roman-Catholic faith
didn't really make life any easier for Isidore,
however. To the contrary, Leander may have
been quite holy in many ways (considering
he is a canonized saint, after all), but his
treatment of his little brother while Isidore
was a child both shocked and appalled many
people even at the time. Leander, who was
much older than Isidore, took over Isidore's
education, and his pedagogical theory involved
quite a lot of brute force and punishment. We
know from Isidore's later accomplishments
that he was intelligent and hard-working, so
it is hard to understand why Leander thought
abuse would work instead of patience.
=====================================
One day, the young boy simply couldn't take
it any more. Frustrated by his inability to learn
as fast as his brother wanted him to, and also
quite psycho-emotionally hurt by his elder
brother's ill treatment, Isidore ran away from
home. But though he could escape his brother's
hand and words, he couldn't escape his own
internal feeling of failure and rejection. When
he finally let the outside world catch his attention,
he noticed water dripping on the rock near where
he sat. The drops of water that fell repeatedly
carried no force and seemed to have no effect
on the solid stone. And yet he saw that over time,
the water drops had worn holes in the rock.
====================================
Isidore then realized that if he kept working
diligently at his studies, his seemingly small
and insignificant efforts would eventually pay
off big-time in very great learning. He also
may have hoped that his efforts at getting
better with his studies would also wear down
the seemingly solid and unmovable rock of
his elder brother's heart.
====================================
When he eventually returned home, however,
his brother in enraged exasperation confined
him to a cell (probably in a local monastery)
to complete his studies, not really believing
Isidore's promise that he wouldn't run away
again.
====================================
Either there must have been some kind of a
loving side to this sibling relationship, or
Isidore was remarkably meek and forgiving
(even for a saint), because later he would
work side-by-side with his elder brother in
both ecclesiastical and educational affairs.
After Leander's death, Isidore would go on to
complete many of the projects he began
including a missal and breviary.
====================================
In a time where it's fashionable to blame the
past for our present and future problems,
Isidore was resilient enough to be able to
separate the abusive way in which he was
taught from the exceedingly great joy of learning.
He didn't run from learning after he left his
brother but actually embraced education with
a fiery passion, and soon made it his life's
greatest work. Isidore was able to rise
above his past to eventually become known
as the greatest intellectual in all of Spain.
=====================================
His fervent love of learning made him promote
the establishment of a Roman-Catholic seminary
within every diocese of Spain. He didn't limit his
own studies, and also didn't want others to fall
into that habit as well. In a very unique move, he
made sure that all branches of both academic
and technical knowledge, including that of the
arts and medicine, were taught in the seminaries
in addition to the standard Roman-Catholic theology,
philosophy, and divinity that we are used to clerics
learning in-seminary.
========================================
His own self-compiled and self-edited encyclopedia
of general knowledge, "The Etymologies", was a
very popular textbook for well over nine centuries.
He also wrote a lot of books and treatises on the
subjects of grammar, astronomy, geography,
history, and biography as well as theology. When
the Arabs eventually brought the study of Greco-
Roman classical knowledge, such as that of
Aristotle, back to Europe, this was nothing new
to Spain because St. Isidore's open mind had
already reintroduced the classical philosophical
thought and great literary works of the Ancient-Greek
philosopher to students there.
=========================================
As the Archbishop Of Seville for over 37 years,
and also succeeding his elder brother Leander
in this clerical post, he set up a model for
representative government in Europe. Under his
direction, and perhaps remembering the tyrannies
of his brother, he rejected autocratic decision-making
and organized synods to discuss the government of
the Spanish-based Roman-Catholic Church.
=========================================
Still trying to wear away the rock with water, he also
helped to convert by-and-large much of the Germanic
-tribal barbarian Visigoths that ruled Spain from their
heretical version of Christianity called "Arianism" to
mainstream Roman-Catholicism as it was in communion
with the Pope in Rome.
=========================================
He lived until almost 80 years old. As he lie dying,
his house was filled with large crowds of the poor
and destitute of which he was giving aid and alms to.
One of his final acts was to give all his worldly
possessions to the poor.
=========================================
When he died in 636 AD, this great Doctor Of The
Church had achieved far more than his elder brother
would have ever hoped; the blazing light of his
learning caught fire in Spanish intellectual minds,
and held back the Dark Ages of barbarism and depravity
from early Medieval Spain. But even greater than his
outstanding and genius-level mind must have been the
flexing-of-genius of his heart that allowed him to see
beyond rejection and discouragement to joy and
possibility.
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