Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of historians, led by Isidore of Seville (feast day April 4).
560 — 636 · Feast day: April 4
Born in Cartagena around 560 and educated by his brother St. Leander, Isidore succeeded Leander as Archbishop of Seville around 600 and led the Spanish Church for more than three decades. His Etymologiae — a twenty-volume encyclopedia drawing on hundreds of classical sources — became the standard reference work of the Middle Ages and preserved texts that would otherwise have been lost entirely.
672 — 735 · Feast day: May 25
A monk of the Northumbrian twin monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow, Bede was the foremost scholar of the Anglo-Saxon age. Through decades of reading, teaching, and writing he produced the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People,' the foundational source for early English history, along with more than sixty other works spanning Scripture, chronology, and natural history.