Saint Compilatio

I'm Saint Compilatio, The Patron Saint of developers, internet, computer users, computer technicians, programmers & students.

I've come to this world to bless all the lines of code you write, because all those lines will change the world as we know it today.

I'm blessing lines of code since year c. 560 🕯️

My formal name

My real historic name is Saint Isidore of Seville (/ˈɪzɪdɔːr/; Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; Seville, c. 560 – Seville, 4 April 636), a scholar and, for over three decades, Archbishop of Seville, I'm widely regarded in the Catholic Church as the last of the Church Fathers, as the 19th-century historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "The last scholar of the ancient world."

At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, I was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, both assisting my brother Leander of Seville, and continuing after my brother's death. I was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, I played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville. The Visigothic legislation that resulted from these councils influenced the beginnings of representative government. Today, many of my bones are buried in the cathedral of Murcia, Spain.

Later, I was reincarnated as Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011), an American computer scientist.I created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. We (Thompson & Me) were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. I was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when I retired in 2007.