Hello,

I am Luzia MASIERO looking for FAISSIN.

I was told I am related to VALDESI(Protestants).

MASIERO are from VENETO...so a little
distant from the Piedmont,although there were JEW merchants(maybe a
redudancy!)in Venice,VENETO.Jews were invited to settle in places as
enterpreneurs,but then they were to be 'OUT'...especially in Germany.
Is it because they 'did not want to pay TAXES, as I was told in another
group...Where,in which book does it say that?Any reference?

According to my readings,the Ashkenazic Jew were very predominant in
Germany,Italy and Iberic Peninsula till the end of Middle Ages(15th century
in Germany,which was the last place to come off the M.Ages).

FAISSIN or FAISS IN or FEIST seem to be of an Ashkenazic Jew stock...

So, how come? Can the Jew people be also called Protestants...in a way.

May be they started off as JEW, and then,embraced the Protestant movement
and such...it that it? ANYONE out there with the LANTERN to
light up my doubts,or do I have to come to the conclusion myself...

Puzzled Religiously & Historically Speaking...

Luzia Masiero Faissin
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/luziafaissin/index.html