The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara – Inside the Inquisition’s Last Stand
From Absolute History.
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A midnight knock in Bologna changes everything. A father’s fight shakes an empire and a papacy.
This episode unseals the Mortara case: a six-year-old Jewish boy seized in 1858 after a claimed secret baptism, and a desperate father who pursues answers locked inside the Church’s files. Follow the trail from the House of Catechumens in Rome to Napoleon’s raid on the Vatican archives, from Goya’s haunting images to Juan Antonio Llorente’s forbidden research, and to a pope who refuses to bend as Italy unifies around him. What did the investigators really find in those “secret files”? Why did a single child become a symbol for Pius IX, and a catalyst for separation of church and state? And what happened when father and son finally met again in Rome?
Witness the clash of conscience, power, and modernity that helped end centuries of Inquisition. Watch to uncover the moments that history tried to hide—and decide for yourself what justice demanded.
#EdgardoMortara #Inquisition #PiusIX #PapalStates #Risorgimento #SecretFiles
This episode unseals the Mortara case: a six-year-old Jewish boy seized in 1858 after a claimed secret baptism, and a desperate father who pursues answers locked inside the Church’s files. Follow the trail from the House of Catechumens in Rome to Napoleon’s raid on the Vatican archives, from Goya’s haunting images to Juan Antonio Llorente’s forbidden research, and to a pope who refuses to bend as Italy unifies around him. What did the investigators really find in those “secret files”? Why did a single child become a symbol for Pius IX, and a catalyst for separation of church and state? And what happened when father and son finally met again in Rome?
Witness the clash of conscience, power, and modernity that helped end centuries of Inquisition. Watch to uncover the moments that history tried to hide—and decide for yourself what justice demanded.
#EdgardoMortara #Inquisition #PiusIX #PapalStates #Risorgimento #SecretFiles
