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Milan is a city full of history, a history that is lost in the mists of time. But if
we want to know what is the oldest item came to us, handed down from generation to generation?
The answer is hidden in a small church, Santa Maria del Paradiso, being Vigentina door.
Inside this church, set in the floor we can see a round stone, with thirteen grooves arranged
radially, and in the middle of a stone stud, covering a circular hole. The location of
this stone is not the original, it in fact, was initially placed in the chapel of Holies
Veteris Testaments later became the chapel of St. Dionysius in 376 after the death of
the saint. The chapel was demolished in 1535 to make way for Pota bastions of Venice, and
it was erected another a little further south, where the stone was relocated along with other
relics. Today this chapel no longer exists, but there
is the legend that the chapel of St. Dionysius or rather the chapel of Holies Veteris Testaments
was built around the round stone, after St. Barnabas, in 52 after Christ, made her a Christian
relic, and along with it christianized the city of Milan.
Legend has it that St. Barnabas, who arrived in what was once a very device of Milan, he
found the people who take around a stone. He struck some pagan statues, traced with
the fingers 13 rays in stone, and you stuck a cross, making it a symbol of Christianity.
Of course, as with all legends we read between the lines a truth more credible, the thirteen
rays are in fact more likely to think a lunar calendar, the stone was in fact almost certainly
a lunar meridian and the center hole housed probably always stick a druid, priest of the
ancient pagan cult of the Cisalpine Galia, propitiating ancient pagan rites. A stone
is also linked to a party, perhaps as ancient stone, or the feast of the "Tredesin de marz"
from which the stone undoubtedly takes its name. This festival marks the beginning of
spring, and its character actor is the flower market, also mentioned in the famous poem
by De Marchi, MilanIn Milanun. When the second church was demolished in 1770
together with the adjacent monastery the round stone was moved to Santa Maria del Paradiso,
in its current position. An interesting coincidence is that, where
was placed the stone Tredesin de marz, today is the Planetarium, built in 1929. We do not
know if it was an accident, or whether it was deliberately placed there, but, where
over 2000 years ago there was a tool for observing the moon, now another tool replaces the old
blue stone, although remaining almost differently the ancient pre-Christian worship heaven.
Another curiosity is that during archaeological excavations summaries by Professor Mario Mirabella
Roberti, in the statue of Luciano Manara, were found the remains of a structure period
of 400-500 before Christ, that would suggest a chapel Christian, which is the first chapel,
sanctorium Veteri Testaments. One last thing: in the chapel of St. Dionysius,
there was a pool of water that cured the eyes .. could be just the pond area where there
was a small chapel? Well, for this first episode of the second
series of mysterious Milan is all about, in the next episodes will cover other topics
related wing mysterious city of Milan, but for now, see you next episode.