| Each Spanish city has its saint patron, to honour | | | | started doing peasant work for his landowner Juan |
| which there are holidays celebrated, ceremonial | | | | de Vargas. At the same time, he revealed an unusual |
| masses and festivals are organized. Spanish people | | | | ability to find sources of drinking water, which made |
| still follow this tradition and saint patron days are | | | | him popular all around the neighbourhood and which |
| widely celebrated not only in large cities, but also in | | | | combined with great devotion and kindness of a |
| small villages. | | | | saint. St. Isidro lived a long life till 90, during which a |
| Madrid is famous for its numerous holidays, and the | | | | lot of goodness was done. In 1172 he was buried in |
| most loved of them is the day of its saint patron - | | | | the Church of St. Andrew, not far from his home, |
| Isidro the Laborer. To learn the roots of this holiday, | | | | and from this time people were coming here to pray |
| you will have to look far into the history of the | | | | not only to St. Andrew, but also to St. Isidro. Little |
| country. | | | | by little, he became one of the most esteemed |
| According to the legend, St. Isidro was born in 1082 | | | | Madrid saints and in XVI century there was a chapel |
| in the Christian family that lived in the small Madgerit | | | | built on the place where St. Isidro revealed the spring. |
| city, which is now Madrid. When the boy grew old, he | | | | |