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Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

STORY PREFACE

 

             
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Photograph of Edgardo Mortara, pictured on the right, together with his mother and possibly (uncertain) his brother.  Image online, courtesy Wikipedia Commons.

I'm just following
the Inquisitor's
Orders.

Marshall Lucidi
June 23, 1858
Explaining why he was removing Edgardo
Mortara from his parents' home  **

Kidnapping is a crime. Period. Parents take great comfort in that truth.

But suppose a place exists where kidnapping is not a crime under certain circumstances. Try to imagine what life in such a country would be like. Think about the terrible effects of such "legal" actions.

 

**  Quoted by David I. Kertzer in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, at page 3.)

 

 

 

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Original Release Date:  July, 2001
Updated Quarterly, or as Needed

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