Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of The Internet And Computer Users?
Saint Isidore of Seville · Feast day April 4
The patron saint of the internet and computer users is Saint Isidore of Seville, whose feast day is April 4.
Who was Saint Isidore of Seville?
Saint Isidore of Seville was a bishop and scholar of the seventh century who gathered the knowledge of the ancient world into his great Etymologiae, an encyclopedia that has been called one of the first attempts to organize all human knowledge in one place.
Why the patron of the internet and computer users?
Because of that vast, connected work of knowledge, he has been proposed as the patron of the internet and of those who use computers.
In the Word
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.Proverbs 2:6 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
All the saints point to Jesus, and so are you called
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