Saint Isadore of Seville, Patron Saint of technology

As the internet was gaining sway in everyday life, Pope St. John Paul II named Saint Isidore of Seville the patron of technology which is interesting because St. Isidore was bishop of Seville in 600 AD – a few years before the internet came to be. As bishop he created a school that became a model for early universities. He also sought to establish for the community good norms for social justice and representative government as well as firm foundations in the faith. Yet the main thing that helped get him connected to the copious content of the internet is his twenty-book opus where he sought to set out the origins of as many things as he could, from language to law, from biology to agriculture, from Church history to road building. He tried to share as much knowledge as there was to be shared, and is therefore seen as someone who had in mind the great potential of sharing that comes through technology and the internet.