Thursday, March 12, 2009

Isidore of Seville (560-636 A.D.)

Saint Isidore is one of the greatest cultural lamps of the dark ages, preserving the light of knowledge from ancient Greece and Rome.

A great encyclopaedist, scholar, and sage, his major treatise is The Etymologies, also known as The Origins.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Isidore_of_Seville

Prayer before logging onto the Internet:
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Varia/SIsidore.html

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