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.

Enea Salaas Edgardo Mortara (child)
Leonardo Malteseas Edgardo Mortara
Paolo Pierobonas Pio IX
Fausto Russo Alesias Momolo Mortara
Barbara Ronchias Marianna Mortara
Andrea Gherpellias Angelo Padovani
Samuele Teneggias Riccardo Mortara
Corrado Invernizzias Giudice Carboni
Filippo Timias Giacomo Antonelli
Fabrizio Gifunias Pier Gaetano Feletti
Francesco Di Giacomo