Santo DiMera
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Charlotte DiMera Rachel Black (adoptive) |
Santo DiMera is a fictional character on the soap opera
Storylines
The character Santo is a traveling salesman and the father of crime lord
According to Stefano, Colleen dies horribly by leaping to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean (foreshadowing similar future scenes involving members of her family), and Santo blames the Bradys, but it is a simple truth that drove Colleen to her death. Santo's wife never died and Colleen, who had been intimate with Santo, was about to marry him when she learns the truth through her younger brother Shawn Brady, who was inadvertently tipped off by a young Stefano while they were playing together. Santo vows revenge against the Bradys for losing whom he now considers the love of his life, and a vendetta begins. Though occurring (off-screen) through occasional commentary from other Brady family members, viewers learn that the feud is particularly painful, vicious, and occasionally violent. In later years, Shawn goes to great lengths—including having his step-son Bo roughed up and briefly held captive in Ireland—to keep the feud's origins a secret.
Years later, in a letter written to Stefano in
Stefano dutifully picks up Santo's mantle, and uses it to his own advantage, carrying out the vendetta and amassing great wealth in the process. Various letters among DiMera family members reveal that the key to ending the vendetta is contained in a portfolio that was left in Colleen's church in Galway,
In February 2008, Colleen is found alive and it is revealed she left Santo, faked her death, and went into hiding in a convent in South America where she had his son, Ryan Brady – then believed to be
In the summer of 2012, the DiMera family begins to fall apart as Stefano's wife
It is later revealed that John’s identity was not that of Ryan Brady’s. John was a baby at the orphanage where Ryan was born, with the latter dying shortly after birth. With the caretakers at the orphanage being unwilling to break the bad news to Colleen, they replaced Ryan with John. Colleen raised John as her own until she was no longer able to, and he was adopted by Leopold and Philomena Alamain. Philomena was the sister of
References
- Soaps She Knows. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
External links
- "Days of our Lives: House of DiMera: Santo and Colleen's Love Letters". Days of Our Lives. NBC. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008.
- "Santo DiMera, The Charismatic Romeo". Days of Our Lives. NBC. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008.
- "Who's Who in Salem: Santo DiMera". Soap Central.