Many say that the Church and the whores do not get along very well (this is where the priests remain silent as whores ), others that the church that we love as well as a good woman must be Holy and Whore. But really, can there be a true link between whores and the church? The answer is yes.
And this goes beyond Maria Magdalena the prostitute who was a kind of apostle and companion of Jesus, who is known as the holy whore, but beyond a Holy Whore who cannot be denied relevance within the gospel
In most of the towns of Spain there is a patron saint, in whose honor the local festivals are celebrated. Also many groups or trades have a patron saint such as San Isidro (farmers), Santo Tomás de Aquino (students), the Virgen del Carmen (sailors), Santa Cecilia (musicians) ... but, as the title of this post says, we are going to meet Santa Nefija, the patron saint of whores. So we can go making a reference to where the whores pray and to whom they pray properly. And I'm not saying that the place to where to look for whores is a church, but it's not exactly that they are exempt from it.
This saint practiced prostitution in a curious way: she went out at dusk through the lonely streets and bridges of the Most Serene Venice, offering her body to beggars and beggars.
Nefixa was her. It is also cited as Nefisa or Nefissa in works by authors, such as La lozana andaluza, by Francisco Delicado; Prison of love, by Diego San Pedro; Description of Africa, from Leon the African (Giovanni Leone di Medici); A Madrid story, by Pedro García Moltalvo.
At just 12 years old, Nefixa was seen sitting "in ponte Sixto" "without pomp or outfit." So much was her dedication to the poor and helpless men in the Venice lagoon, that the people soon saw her with fervent passion and began to speak of the merciful young woman who gave her body to the beggars. For this time, sex workers are one of those whores who fuck bareback .
Upon her premature death, Nefixa was elevated to the altars and her feat reached the corridors of the Vatican, where no one prevented her from lighting candles. She was called the Virgin, the Saint of the Prostitutes, of the prostitutes and of the courtesans.
Following the classical Roman prostitution hierarchy (Delicatae, Famosae, Lupae, Noctilucae, Copae, Fornicatrici, Forariae, Bustuariae, and Prostibulae), Nefixa was located in the Santoral but for a very short time. She had her validity as patron saint of low-class courtesans and prostitutes, such as María de Majdala (also called Magdalena), Librada or Afra.
But perhaps Vatican morality or the advent of new saints, led Nefixa to descend from the altars and fall into oblivion.
However, it is good to know that even the oldest office in the world has its saint and that whores enter heaven itself if they insist on doing their jobs with the most arduous passion and dedication.