Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara - In 1858, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the Jewish home of the Mortara family to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son who had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education.

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