Saint Isidore, 17th Century, 60 Cm, Spanish School, Polychrome Wood And Gold Leaf

Spanish sculpture in polychrome wood and gilded with gold leaf, very beautiful expression for this sculpture, patterns on the drapery and the faces very neat. very good general condition
Period: 17th century, Spanish School
Subject: Saint Isidore, the patron saint of farmers
Dimensions: Height: 60 cm - Width: 35 cm - Depth: 30 cm

Saint Isidore: I
sidore the Plowman (born around 1070 in Madrid, died around 1130 in Madrid) is considered a saint; his feast day is May 15. He is the patron saint of Madrid, but also of plowmen, farmers, day laborers and carters. Placed very young as a farm laborer, he worked for several masters. Faced with the arrival of the Saracens, he fled the Madrid region and continued his humble profession elsewhere.
It is said that he is the object of the jealousy of the other workers, who accuse him of preferring to pray rather than work the land like them. Every Sunday, with his wife Maria Toribia, he sings at the lectern during high mass and spends the rest of the day in prayer.
However, his last boss, Juan de Vargas, makes him his manager. The latter watches him to verify the assertions of the other workers: he surprises him in prayer, in ecstasy while the oxen continue to pull the plow, as if they were led by two angels. During the summer when everything is dried up by the heat of the sun. Isidore's master had gone to see him in the fields.
Seized by a burning thirst, he asks the man of God if he could not show him a place where there would be water.
He hurries to go to the place that is shown to him; but he finds nothing there: the heat had dried up everything. He came back in a very bad mood: - You deceived me, he said. - Let's go together, replied Isidore. And he led him to the neighboring hill. There, not the slightest trace of water, everything was perfectly arid and dry. The saint thrust his stinger into the earth, and a spring of living water gushed forth immediately. Dazzled, Juan de Vargas was converted.

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