A different tour of Rome. Civis Romanus sum

We spoke once of legends about the Colosseum. Here is another story. So, legends tells that the name of this monument derives from a colossus of Nero, a statue, that was very high and big; infact when Vespasiano (the emperor who built the Colosseum) changed the head of it, because of the hate of roman people against Nero, he had to make a very expensive and hard job. Infact he wanted to replace Nero with Apollus, the god of the sun; in particular behind the head of it, there were 7 ray of light, that to respect the proportion were of 21 feet. But this statue was also wrapped by a mystical and magic attention: infact a legend tells us that this statue was possessed by one of the most terrifying demons, imprisoned by priests. These priests, when a devout was in front of the colossum, asked him: "Colis eum?" (do you adore him?) (someone says that the name derives from it Colis eum -> colisseum) ; whatever was the response, the fortune of the devout was different. The power of this idol was so big that the he was able to blow a freezing wind or a hot one, and moreover, during the day it was able to follow the rotation of the sun. Among devouts of it, there was Rossana, the wife of a roman king called Austerio, in the period when Roban was emperor (still today, no one is able to say who was Rabon). Anyway, Rossana wanted a son, but after a lot of years she was still barren; so one day she went to the statue to ask a son. The scary voice of it, said that she had to give a lot of jewels and money as sacrifice to the differents gods of Rome and in 9 months she will have a son, who will be called Olimpiodoro. But even if she did it, she wasn't pregnant after a whole year. When she felt totally desperate, she saw christians going to death, with a smile on their faces, and she was surprised seeign it and so a night she said with her heart out "Mary of Christians, let me have a baby!". She was surprised by her same words, but after nine months she birthed a baby, who was called Sebastiano, like the martyr. For more information post me a comment or e-mail me. Dblk