Edgardo Mortara

Edgardo Levi Mortara (Bologna, Italy, August 27, 1851 – Liège, Belgium, March 11, 1940) was a Jewish boy who became the center of an international controversy when he was removed from his Jewish parents by authorities of the Papal States and raised as a Roman Catholic. Church authorities took custody of the boy after receiving a report that he had been given emergency baptism by a domestic servant during a serious infantile illness. In the Papal States it was against the law for non-Catholics to rais... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]