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Catliolic nor a Lutlu'ran, l)clif'viiig iu transubstantiation as little as in consuhstiiiitiation: and as for being a Calvinist, he woiild as lief have remained a Jew.
Bibliography:
Stplnsitinc-lilcr. Cat. limll. llnK, mill. t:si,.-I',,rl..Jml. IWW, p. 114.
No. 4412; KuvserS.
AL9IANZI A
A.
II.
family that, according to Luz-
zatlo. (Iciivcs its name from the city of Almansa in Slureia, Spain. The earliest member of tlic fuiuily (if uliiPiM there is any kiiowledire is
Abraham
Joseph Almanzi, i.naii(ll':itliir (if.jdsiM'ir Ai,m. /.i. Abraliam's sun. Baruch Hayyim Almanzi, born in Seandiano. near
Modena,
Italy,
Padua when
was
bnni.irht
to
(|uiley(iun;jby Jiieobof Triest. IJarueh entered Jaeob's business, livini; with him an<l his son Jloses. lie married Alleirra (Simhah) Consigli of Kovijro and ,si. ehildren were the issue of the union. Baruch died Alav 12, 1837, and his wife, Feb. 2, 1857. The following is a skeleh jiedigreeof the Almanzi
family Abnibaiu Juxepli AlmuQZl
Almanac
Almeida
