Editing Isidore of Seville (section)

==Veneration==
[[Image:Meister des Codex 167 c.jpg|thumb|Isidore (right) and [[Braulio of Zaragoza|Braulio]] (left) in an [[Ottonian]] [[illuminated manuscript]] from the 2nd half of the 10th century]]
Isidore was one of the last of the ancient Christian philosophers and was contemporary with [[Maximus the Confessor]]. He has been called the most learned man of his age by some scholars,<ref name="Knoebel2008">{{cite book|author1=Isidore of Seville|translator1-first=Thomas L. |translator1-last=Knoebel|title=Isidore of Seville: De Ecclesiasticis Officiis|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_YhkqmfNeIIC&pg=PA11|year=2008|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=978-0-8091-0581-6|page=11|chapter=Introduction}}</ref><ref name="Kleinhenz2004">{{cite book|author=Bradford Lee Eden |author-link=Bradford Lee Eden |editor1=Christopher Kleinhenz|editor2=John W. Barker|editor3=Gail Geiger|editor4=Richard Lansing|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNs3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT2012|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-94879-5|page=2012|chapter=Isidore of Seville}}</ref> and he exercised a far-reaching and immeasurable influence on the educational life of the Middle Ages. His contemporary and friend [[Braulio of Zaragoza]] regarded him as a man raised up by God to save the Spanish peoples from the tidal wave of barbarism that threatened to inundate the ancient civilisation of [[Hispania]].<ref name="Valverde2004">{{cite book|author=Jorge Mario Cabrera Valverde|title=Estampas de la Antigüedad Clásica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEY6FaGzVyMC&pg=PA124|year=2004|publisher=Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica|isbn=978-9977-67-803-0|page=124|quote=Un discípulo suyo, San Braulio de Zaragoza, escribe sobre él: ""Después de tantas ruinas y desastres, Dios le ha suscitado en estos últimos tiempos para restaurar los monumentos de los antiguos, a fin de que no cayésemos por completo en la barbarie." English: A disciple of his, San Braulio de Zaragoza, writes about him: After so much destruction and so many disasters, God has raised him in recent times to restore the monuments of the ancients, so that we would not fall completely into barbarism.}}</ref>

The [[Eighth Council of Toledo]] (653) recorded its admiration of his character in these glowing terms: "The extraordinary doctor, the latest ornament of the Catholic Church, the most learned man of the latter ages, always to be named with reverence, Isidore". This tribute was endorsed by the [[Fifteenth Council of Toledo]], held in 688. Isidore was proclaimed a [[Doctor of the Church]] in 1722 by [[Pope Innocent XIII]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dumont |first1=Darl J |title=St. Isidore of Seville |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm |website=New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia |publisher=New Advent LLC |access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref>

Isidore was interred in [[Seville]]. His tomb represented an important place of veneration for the [[Mozarabs]] during the centuries after the Arab conquest of Visigothic Hispania. In the middle of the 11th century, with the division of [[Al Andalus]] into [[taifas]] and the strengthening of the Christian holdings in the Iberian peninsula, [[Ferdinand I of León and Castile]] found himself in a position to extract tribute from the fractured Arab states. In addition to money, [[Abbad II al-Mu'tadid]], the Abbadid ruler of [[Seville]] (1042–1069), agreed to turn over St. Isidore's remains to Ferdinand I.<ref>Father Alban Butler. "Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville". Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. Saints.SQPN.com. 2 April 2013. Web. 9 August 2014. [http://saints.sqpn.com/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-isidore-bishop-of-seville/ Saints SQPN]</ref> A Catholic poet described al-Mutatid placing a brocaded cover over Isidore's sarcophagus, and remarked, "Now you are leaving here, revered Isidore. You know well how much your fame was mine!" Ferdinand had Isidore's remains reinterred in the then-recently constructed [[Basilica of San Isidoro]] in [[León, Spain|León]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=San Isidoro Royal Collegiate Church in León in León |url=https://www.spain.info/en/places-of-interest/royal-collegiate-church-san-isidoro-leon/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Spain.info |language=en}}</ref> Today, many of his bones are buried in the cathedral of [[Murcia]], Spain.