Calle San Rogelio

Rogelius was born in the early ninth century in the Parapanda range, near Íllora, in the lands of Granada. He lived as a hermit in a cave, pained to see Christian neighbors embrace Islam out of convenience. In the year 852 he joined Servideo, a monk newly arrived from Syria, and one Friday the two entered the great mosque of Córdoba to preach the Gospel aloud. The crowd attacked and jailed them; they went on preaching behind bars. Their hands and feet were cut off before they were beheaded, among the last martyrs executed at the end of the reign of Abd al-Rahman II. In Íllora, where Rogelius is patron, the main feast was moved to August because in mid-September the town left for the grape harvest. Calle de San Rogelio links up with other streets of devotion around Bellas Vistas, a corner of Tetuán where the street map gathered saints' names as the neighborhood grew in the early twentieth century.