On May 14, the Holy Church honors St. Isidore. Men with the name Sider celebrate in our country. In Bulgarian it comes from Greek and means iron.
St. Isidore lived in the 5th century († 435). He was born in Egypt of wealthy parents, received a good education, and left the world at a young age, desiring solitude. He was ordained a monk, then settled in a desert place near the city of Pilusia in Lower Egypt. Here he lived in strict abstinence, wore coarse clothing and ate only roots. He constantly prayed and raised his thoughts to God.
The rumor about his strict and pious life attracted other ascetics to him and he was elected abbot of the monastery. Constantly taking care of the spiritual benefit of the brothers, he guided them with his wise instructions, taught them by word and example humility, meekness, selflessness, struggle against passions and worldly thoughts.
Monk Isidore addressed his teachings not only to monks and desert dwellers. His writings contain many edifying things for men of every rank. In the letters, of which more than two thousand have come down to us, he addressed both governors and bishops with wise counsel; he refutes the false doctrines, expounds the dogmas of the faith, explains the holy scriptures, so that every one may draw from them a useful lesson.
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