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thus expressed his joy at escaping from the bondage of the Romish
Church (we translate from the French) : " I felt extreme satisfaction in
seeing myself delivered from so great a bondage, in which I could not
tell how many torments I had suffered." On his reaching Geneva the
same spirit found expression in these words : "At
last we reached
Geneva . . . after having been delivered, by God's grace, from an
infinity of dangers and difficulties in the course of our journeyings. We
were greatly consoled to have reached this port. . . . and extremely
rejoiced ... to have been, by His infinite mercy, withdrawn from
superstition and idolatry." During their first stay at Lusarches Pompeio's
widowed mother married Giuliano Calandrini.
As to the descendants of Pompeio (19) Diodati, beside a son Elie}'^
who became an eminent jurist, he had a son Alexandre}'^ who was a distin-
guished physician, at one time Physician in Ordinary to Louis XIII. of
France, who himself had a -^oxx Jean}^ and a grandson Gabrieiy^ In 1719
this Gabriel received from Louis XV., "par la grace de Dieu Roy de
France et de Navarre," a Patent of nobility, still preserved in the family,
recognizing the Diodatis as one of the most ancient and noble families of
Lucca, which for several centuries had held the honors and dignities
peculiar to nobility, and allied itself with noble families in Lucca and
Geneva, " without having ever derogated from their dignity ;" and empow-
ering them, accordingly, to hold certain lands in the Pays de Gex, which
they could not enjoy without the royal grant. Possibly these lands are the
same, or in part the same, which, as we shall see, had been bequeathed by
a grandson of the namesake of Charles V., who had died thirty-nine years
before, a bachelor, to whichever of his nephews should go fo Geneva to live.
Neither of them having fulfilled this condition, and his Will not having
provided for the case, the bequest lapsed ;
and
a royal grant may have
been consequently applied for in favor of a collateral branch of the family.
In the latter half of the last century, however, a lineal descendant of one
of those nephews built the Chateau de Vernier, in the bailiwick of Gex
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