Saint Isidore the Labourer
15 May 2026 — Blessed furrows and a good harvest! May the rain come on time.
Saint Isidore the Labourer (in Spanish, San Isidro Labrador) was a Spanish farm worker from Madrid who lived in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Tradition says he spent his life as a hired farmhand, remembered for his faith, hard work and generosity. The Catholic Church honours him as the patron saint of farmers, and his feast day falls on 15 May. In Mexico, as in Spain and elsewhere, villages and farms mark the day with blessings of crops, seeds and working animals. Oxen are often decorated with flowers and ribbons, and processions pass through the fields. The feast comes in mid-spring, in the heart of the farming year in the northern hemisphere, when sowing and tending crops depend closely on the seasons and the rains. The date is fixed in the solar calendar, so it falls on 15 May every year. Tonight a starry pair of oxen with a plough crosses the sky, a symbol of labour and hope for a good harvest.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver constellation figure made of bright dots and fine lines: a pair of garlanded oxen slowly pulling a decorated plough across the night sky, with small star-flowers drifting in their wake
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