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}}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook |last=Remondino |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Charles Remondino |year=1891 |title=The History of Circumcision |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23135/23135-h/23135-h.htm#CHAPTER_XXVI |work= |editor= |edition= |volume= |chapter=Chapter XXVI |pages=iii |location=Philadelphia |publisher=F. A. Davis |isbn= |quote= |accessdate=2020-05-21 |note=}}</ref>
If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''mohel''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a ritual Jewish circumcision.
Circumcision of adults became common after Lewis Sayre started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery, so he may have been circumcised as an adult.