Calle de Mauro
A short street in Prosperidad whose name, Mauro, is linked to the sixth-century Benedictine saint, though its specific dedication is undocumented.
Barely eighty-six metres make up calle de Mauro, a short stroke in the heart of Prosperidad, the district that grew up around 1862 on old dry farmland northeast of Madrid. Among these modest streets, opened for the workers who settled in the area, someone chose the name Mauro, though no record of the reason survives.
The name points to Saint Maurus, a sixth-century monk given as a child to Saint Benedict, whom tradition remembers as his first disciple. That same tradition preserves a famous scene: to rescue a young man drowning in a lake, Maurus walked on the water, obeying his master’s order without hesitation. Whether the street honours the saint or some Mauro connected to the district, the archives do not say. Whoever walks these metres today passes beside the memory of a monk that tradition imagined walking on water.