Searchin’ for the Surfer’s Saint

A group of Vatican elders is angling to give the Internet a patron saint –­ a holy helper with a dedicated connection to the Divine.

The church’s leading candidate is a seventh-century Spanish encyclopedist, Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636). A theologian and a scholar, Isidore was best known for his massive, 20-volume Etymologiae, ­an attempt at compiling all the world’s knowledge, covering grammar, medicine, law, geography, agriculture, theology, cooking and all points between.

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