Mortara

Mortara, EDGAR, a Jewish boy who, on 23d June 1858, was forcibly carried off from his parents by the orders of the Archbishop of Bologna, on the plea that he had, when an infant, been baptised into Christianity by a Roman Catholic maid-servant. The manner of the boy's abduction, and the refusal of the Roman Catholic authorities to give him up to his parents, becoming known throughout Europe, excited great indignation, more particularly in England. But the boy remained in the hands of the Roman Catholic Church, and became an Augustinian monk.