Kidnapped

The story

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.

• #child kidnapping
• #19th century
• #1850s
• #pope
• #italy
• #bologna
• #baptism