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The Order of the Golden Stole or Stola d'Oro was an adjunct order of the Order of Saint Mark, in the Republic of Venice. It had a single class, that of knight (cavaliere). Its members were those members of the Order of Saint Mark who were of patrician rank, and wore a golden, flower-embroidered mantle (the eponymous stola d'oro) as a token of this.^[1]

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• Berry, William (1828). Encyclopædia Heraldica. Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry. Vol. 1. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper.