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Italian Families: The Revoir Family (1937)
Figure 1.-- The photo depicts the Rivoir family in 1937. They were originally from the Aosta Valley. Guido Rivoir was a Waldensian Pastor. The photo was taken in Prarostino a town in the Piedmont near Turin. Father served the local Church. The Waldensians are members of a proto-Protestant church tradition meaning that it predates Protestantism and was an early step toward it. It began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before Luther and the Reformation. It became known at an early stage as the 'Poor men of Lyon' (late-12th century). The Waldensians spread to the Cottian Alps in what are today France and Italy. The family is fashionably dressed. Thdere are five children, who look to range from infancy to about 10-years of age. Mother seem to believe in briaded hair. The children mostly wear sandals.
The photo depicts the Rivoir family in 1937. They were originally from the Aosta Valley. Guido Rivoir was a Waldensian Pastor. The photo was taken in Prarostino a town in the Piedmont near Turin. Father served the local Church. The Waldensians are members of a proto-Protestant church tradition meaning that it predates Protestantism and was an early step toward it. It began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before Luther and the Reformation. It became known at an early stage as the 'Poor men of Lyon' (late-12th century). The Waldensians spread to the Cottian Alps in what are today France and Italy. The family is fashionably dressed. Thdere are five children, who look to range from infancy to about 10-years of age. Mother seem to believe in briaded hair. The children mostly wear sandals.
