About The Bearded Seraph:
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Br. Seraphim, a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Penance - Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, is presently serving the Church as a deacon.
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He earned a PhD in history at the University of Notre Dame in 1998 and has taught courses in World and Western Civilizations, Russian and Soviet history and the history of Catholicism in Russia at the University of Notre Dame, East Carolina University and the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he currently resides.
By Brother Seraphim:
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union available from Amazon.com and Notre Dame Press - with reviews.
About Saint Isidore
Saint Isidore of Seville [circa 560-636] was a great patron of education and the first Christian writer to call for a gathering of all knowledge into one location.
His own work in this area was the twenty volume Etymologiae or Origines which contains an encyclopedic gathering of all that was known in his time - with sections on grammar, medicine, law, theology, languages, humanity, agriculture, geography, architecture and more.
In 1999, Saint Isidore was chosen by the Vatican Observation Service for the Internet to be the patron saint of those who use computers and of the Internet, because his encyclopedic structure mirrored the structure of modern data bases as well and because the Observation Service saw his ideas on thought reflected in contemporary understanding of "flashes".
Finally, the Observatory saw Saint Isidore as doing his greatest work in the period of history moving from the Ancient to the Medieval as those who work on computers and the Internet are also entering into a new age of history dominated by the importance of knowledge.
He is considered the last great ancient Christian philosopher and a doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.
Fr. J. T Zuhlsdorf has written the following Prayer before Logging onto the Internet:
Almighty and eternal God who created us in Thy image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true, and beautify, especially in the divine person of Thy only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the Internet we will direct our hands and eyes to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Isidore, pray for us.
