Calle San Nazario

The name evokes Saint Nazarius, a martyr whose cult took root in Milan long before any biography of him existed. The legend, written centuries later, makes him an evangelizer through Gaul and the Alps alongside a boy named Celsus whom he adopted as a disciple; both are said to have been beheaded in Milan under Nero. What is verifiable comes later. Around the year 395, Bishop Ambrose of Milan found in a garden an incorrupt body and, nearby, that of a boy; he identified them as Nazarius and Celsus and moved them to his basilica. Historians today accept that there were two real martyrs, but consider the accounts of their travels to be invented. In Prosperidad, no record survives of why this street was named so. Barely one hundred thirty meters of street bear the name of a saint whose life was reconstructed centuries later to give a face to an anonymous grave.