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'''Edgardo Mortara''' (1851-1940)
'''Edgardo Mortara''' (1851-1940)
As a six-year-old boy, Edgardo Mortara was sized from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy when he fell ill as an infant. Mortara grew up as a Catholic under the protection of Pope Pius IX, who refused his parents' desperate pleas for his return, and eventually became a priest.


[[Category:Italian Jewish Studies]]
[[Category:Italian Jewish Studies]]

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Edgardo Mortara (1851-1940)

As a six-year-old boy, Edgardo Mortara was sized from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy when he fell ill as an infant. Mortara grew up as a Catholic under the protection of Pope Pius IX, who refused his parents' desperate pleas for his return, and eventually became a priest.

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