The Church Kidnaps Edgardo Mortara
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History channel original podcast history this week, june 20 third 18 58. I'm sally home just after nightfall, there's a knock at the door. Who could that be? Thinks marianna mortara. A voice calls back, let us in. It's the police. Marianna is panicking now. She tries to put them off, but the officers insist. They come into the crowded apartment and tell her to list the names of her children. And when they come to edgardo, the six year old, asleep in his parents bed, the officers pause. David kurtzer, who's researched this whole scene, described what happens next.
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