The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
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Edgardo Mortara (child)
Edgardo Mortara
Pio IX
Momolo Mortara
Marianna Mortara
Angelo Padovani
Riccardo Mortara
Giudice Carboni
Giacomo Antonelli
Pier Gaetano Feletti
Sabatino Scazzocchio
Anna Morisi