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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:57 AM
Born in Miami on November 1, 1962, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was
the son of a 15-year-old Cuban immigrant, the first of her eventual
three children by three different fathers. When he was six months old,
Delia Aurora Gonzalez del Valle had her son blessed by a Haitian priest
of "palo mayombe," accepting the father's judgment that her son was "a
chosen one" and "destined for great power." Adolfo was still an infant
when his mother moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and while he was
reputedly baptized a Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, serving briefly as an altar boy, the
family's true faith remained a dark secret. Gonzalez immersed herself
in palo mayombe and taught her son likewise, trusting his magic
education to practitioners in San Juan and nearby Haiti. In 1972 the
family returned to Miami for good, Adolfo starting his full-time
apprenticeship with a Haitian priest in Little Havana.
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