Les santes putes del desert

As the saying goes, everything is in the Lord's vineyard, and faith is corroborated by the lives of the protagonists of this book: Saint Mary of Egypt, during a journey to Jerusalem, did so, moved by a uncontrollable desire, with the crew of the ship carrying her -even, as the biographer points out, with the men who did not want her-; St. Mary of Syria and St. Thais were the most sought after barges in the brothels where they worked; Saint Pelagia, a renowned mime actress, charmed a crowd of bishops gathered in Antioch for her attractiveness... In the 4th and 5th centuries AD, many people sought Christian radicalism by living an ascetic life in the deserts of Egypt. And the transition from prostitution to the most fervent hermitism is perhaps what best demonstrates the strong personality of these women.