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
Era: 17th century, Spanish School
Subject: Saint Isidore, the patron saint of farmers
Dimensions: Height: 60 cm - Width: 35 cm - Depth: 30 cm

Saint Isidore:
Isidore the Ploughman (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 ploughmen, farmers, day labourers and carters. Placed very young as a farm labourer, he worked for several masters.
Faced with the arrival of the Saracens, he fled the Madrid region and continued his humble trade elsewhere. It is said that he was the object of the jealousy of the other workers, who accused him of preferring to pray rather than work the land like them.

Every Sunday, with his wife Maria Toribia, he sang at the lectern during high mass and spent the rest of the day in prayer. However, his last employer, Juan de Vargas, made him his manager.
The latter watched him to verify the assertions of the other workers: he surprised him in prayer, in ecstasy while the oxen continued to pull the plow, as if led by two angels.
During the summer, when everything was dried out by the heat of the sun, Isidore's master had gone to see him in the fields.

Seized by a burning thirst, he asked the man of God if he could show him a place where there was water.
He hurried to the place shown to him; but he found nothing there: the heat had dried everything up. He returned 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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