The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome: Rome’s Fatal Prophecy

Here, I’d like to talk a little about the fall of Rome—a changing Rome—through the eyes of a very important woman who was about to become very unimportant. The last chief Vestal priestess of the Roman Empire, a woman named Coelia Concordia. And how the prophecy that she and countless Romans through the ages believed - that Rome would fall when Vesta’s fire went out - was above to be proven true.