Could this monastery on the Greek island of Patmos be relevant to the VMS?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

• The swallowtail merlons ... had both a political and a military function.
  
• [...]The merlons [restored by the fascist regime] had the political nationalist function of underlining the ancient Italian dominion.
  

Are these attested facts, or just guesses?  

That Venetians and fascists saw the swallowtail merlons as a political symbol sound plausible, sure; but it seems equally possible that they were merely the Venetian standard design, and were restored as such because that is how they were when built.

All the best, --stolfi