mother has said so, I cannot say no anymore" Ethopian Christians believe that Christ once gave the Negus's empire of Abyssinia (former name of the country) to his Mother as the tithe of the universe. In [...] tradition, after the defeat of Adoua (city of northern Ethiopia) inflicted on the Italians in 1896, the Negus Menelick, king of Ethiopia, received this letter from Italy: "I am a poor Italian mother whose son