As Angelica and The Seven drove toward the private airfield in Mississippi, Angelica reflected back upon her life with Elijah Mikaelson. Elijah found his mind wandering back to those days as well as he headed back to the Mikaelson compound in New Orleans.
It all began with a mysterious monk named Pedro with a newborn baby in need of home. It was autumn of 1601 when Angelica was secretly adopted into the Medici family of Montecito on the Iberian Peninsula.
The Duke Juan Pablo Medici, and his wife, the Duchess Serena, lived in a once-grand estate in the dukedom of Montecito. The Duke was a distant relative of the powerful Medici family and the Duchess was a devoutly religious woman who had suffered a series of miscarriages throughout their marriage, leaving the couple childless. The Duke loved his Duchess deeply but yearned for a child as much as she did. The estate was surrounded by an expanse of farmland and a small village that was falling into disarray due to years of poor management by the Duke, who was not adept at the art of business.
The Duchess had been befriended by the kindly monk who would come to visit the estate to engage in religious discussion with the Duchess, and to garner support for his charitable works. The Duchess and the monk would talk for hours and while the Duke lacked the same devotion as his wife, he allowed the visits because they seemed to make the Duchess happy. The Duchess had great respect for the monk and viewed him as a holy man worthy of her obedience and respect, and she was honored that he would spend so much time with her engaging in discussion on religious matters and current events.
So when the monk approached her in private with the newborn baby and proposed a secret adoption, the Duchess agreed without hesitation at the thought of finally having a child in the home, to love and raise as her own. The monk explained to the Duchess that the infant's mother had died in childbirth, the father had gone mad and abandoned her, but this infant was special and now promised to God. The monk explained to the Duchess that he could not bear to have the sweet girl raised in an orphanage and thought it was destiny for the monk to have become acquainted with the Duke and Duchess, to be able to see what godly people they are, and how suitable it was that they should raise this special little girl.
The monk explained that since she was special, there would be certain rules that the Duchess and Duke would have to agree to before Angelica would be theirs. The Duchess agreed without hearing the rules, but the monk sat her down and explained the rules that must be followed, without question or hesitation, or else they would invoke the wrath of God. The Duchess listened intently as the monk told her that she was to remain pure, to never marry or to know men, and at the age of 16 she was to be placed in the convent at Madrid to spend her adulthood in servitude to God. To ensure this, the girl would need to be raised on the estate isolated from other children so that she would not develop relationships outside of the Duke and Duchess, and the estate staff. As proof of her special nature, the monk told the Duchess that the girl was immune to fire and she would become a soldier of God in the fight against evil.
The Duchess accepted the monk's terms without question as she was so desperate to take the infant home, to finally have a child, and it played to her ego to be tasked with the raising of such an important child envisioning that she would be raising the next Joan of Arc, a Saint. The Duchess returned to the estate and told the Duke what she had agreed to and the Duke was angry at the proposal. But he softened when he saw how important it was to the Duchess and he agreed to meet with the monk to further discuss the matter. They went to see the monk and the Duke took one look at the infant, into her bright green eyes, and agreed to the secret adoption along with the rules for raising the child. He gave no notice to the special nature that the monk described, he did not believe it, but the thought of finally having a child in the home would make the Duchess happy and, he thought, it would make him very happy, too.
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