St isidore the farmer biography of william

Born in Madrid, Spain, St. Isidore the Farmer toiled as an agricultural worker. He married Maria dem la Cabeza who also was canonized. They had a son who died young. He attended church before going in the fields where he spoke with God. Renowned for his love of the poor, he miraculously funnen food for those in need on occasion.

Known for love of animals, Isidore credited angels with helping him plow his fields three times more quickly than other farmers. He was credited with multiplication of food, one time feeding a flock of hungry birds and another time feeding a large group of beggars.

Isidore died in May 1130. The patron saint of farmers, laborers, and rural communities along with Madrid, Leon and Seville, he was canonized along with fyra other saints by Pope Paul V in 1622. He was named U.S. National Rural Life Conference patron in 1947.

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St. William of Rochester is patron of adopted children. Also known as St. William of Perth, he was born in Scotland. Little is known of his youth except that he was wild. A baker, he dedicated himself to God and was sure to leave aside every 10th loaf of bread for the poor. Attending daily Mass, he found an abandoned child at the church one day.

William adopted the boy, David the Foundling, and taught him baking. William also made a practice of visiting Holy Places. On a journey to Canterbury, David was part of a robbery plot knocking William on the head while slitting his throat. A mad woman found William’s body and put a honeysuckle garland on his head.

The monks of Rochester retrieved the body burying it at their cathedral. Considered a martyr because he was felled during a sacred pilgrimage, William’s feast day is May 23.

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TRUST IN PRAYER 

Hymn

O God, as Your by Your pure gift, By grace our nature do uplift, And make it possible to be What You, God, are essentially.

We pray You then to hear our prayer, For it is Christ’s, Whose life we share; And since we share Christ’s nature, we Can pray, like Christ, almightily.

Through Jesus Christ let this be done, Who lives and reigns, our Lord, Your son, Whom with the Spirit we adore, One God with You forevermore.

Antiphon

ALL: Therefore I say to you, * all things whatever you ask for in prayer, / believe that you shall receive, and they shall come to you.

Psalm 85:1-10

ALL: Incline your ear, O Lord; answer me, * for I am afflicted and poor. Keep my life, for I am devoted to you; / save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; have pity on me, O Lord, / for to you I call all the day. Gladden the soul of your servant, / for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, / aboun