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The Church Kidnaps Edgardo Mortara

HISTORY This Week

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The Story of a Maid Who Baptized a Child

Ana marice was a young woman who had worked for th mortares as a teanager. She is from a poor family in mall hillside town near bologna, and that's where she now lives. When edgardo was about 12 months old, she was almost sure te child was about to die, that he was so sick. And she went to the local grocer and reported that he was ill and wondered whether he should get baptized. Because sheha learned that, unless you're baptized, you'll live eternitly in hell. But if the sick little boy was baptized, he'd live in heaven when he died.

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