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If I am interpreting my Italian and Spanish name dictionaries correctly, Viridiana goes back to Viridianus, a Roman family name which probably was related to the word for "green", with the connotation of both "youthful" and "flourishing". St. Viridiana was a Italian Benedictine nun who died in 1242:

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