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From: Francisco Antonio Doria< >
Subject: Re: Melusine legends
Date: 2 Nov 1998 15:59:03 -0800

>Leo van de Pas was evidently perplexed by my (admittedly a bit vague)
>rhetorical question about the purposes to be served by a Christian European
>noble family pretending to demonic origin during a period we customarily
>describe as an Age of Faith. Allow me to explain what I meant.
>

This is the same as having a patron saint. The Medici have mythical
origins in Perseus; the Acciaioli adopted San Lorenzo as their patron
saint (there was a family taboo that no one in the family should be so
named); for the Doria we have San Matteo. My own Portuguese line has
Saint Anthony as the patron saint.

Chico Doria

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