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Dio CheyenneSaint Isidore of Seville, Spain (560ad–636ad), was a brilliant scholar, theologian, and bishop, whose vast knowledge shaped medieval learning. His most famous work, the Etymologiae, was an early encyclopedia that preserved the wisdom of antiquity. Etymologiae covers a vast range of topics including the origins of words, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, geometry, music, astronomy, medicine, law, the Church and heretical sects, pagan philosophers, languages, the physical world, geography, and much more. Etymologiae later was printed in at least ten editions between 1472 and 1530ad. Dante Alighieri cited the book, and he placed Isidore in Paradiso. Saint Isidore is quoted by Geoffrey Chaucer, and mentioned by the poets Boccaccio, Petrarch, and John Gower.
Saint Isidore is the patron saint of the Internet, computer users, and scholars. While it may seem strange that a seventh century saint was chosen as the patron saint of the Internet, it makes sense when we see that he was a true visionary who sought to make knowledge accessible to all. Saint Isidore pray for us!
