Christian feast day: Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville

Hispano-Roman scholar (c. 560–636)

Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".