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Edgardo Levi Mortara ( Bologna, Papal States, August 27, 1851 – Liège, Belgium, March 11, 1940 ) was an Italian boy who became the center of an international controversy when he was removed from his Jewish parents by authorities of the Papal States and raised as a Catholic.
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Edgardo and Mortara
The last notable action of the Roman Inquisition occurred in 1858, in Bologna, when Inquisition agents legally removed a 6-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, from his family.
* June 23 – Police of the Papal States seize Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara and take him away to be raised as a Catholic.
In 1897, Edgardo Mortara preached in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York, but the Archbishop of New York told the Holy See that he opposed Mortara's efforts to evangelise the Jews on the grounds that such efforts might embarrass the Church in the view of the United States government.
On 23 June 1858, in Bologna, in the Papal States, police arrived at the home of a Jewish couple, Salomone (" Momolo ") and Marianna Padovani Mortara, to take one of their eight children, six-year-old Edgardo, and transport him to Rome to be raised as a ward of the state.
In his 1997 book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, Kertzer investigates the story and quotes from contemporary testimony.
Edgardo Mortara was sent as a missionary to cities such as Munich, Mainz and Breslau to preach to the Jews there.
In 1997 David Kertzer published The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which brought the case back to public attention.
The story became the subject of a play, Edgardo Mine by Alfred Uhry, and an opera, " Il Caso Mortara " by Francesco Cilluffo, premiered February 25, 2010, by Dicapo Opera in New York City.
An Irish film titled Edgardo Mortara, based on the play and Kertzer's book, was planned to begin production via Miramax in October 2002 but the project was halted for lack of funds.
* Secret Files of the Inquisition Episode 4 Concerns Edgardo Mortara and his relationship with the end of the Papal States, the unification of Italy, and the end of the Italian Inquisition.
See Edgardo Mortara for an account of one of the most widely publicized instances of acrimony between Catholics and Jews in the Papal States in the second half of the 19th century.
The last outrage against the Jews of Italy was connected with the case of Edgardo Mortara, which occurred in Bologna in 1858.
His book, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction in 1997.
Edgardo and Papal
In 1912, in his testimony in favour of the beatification of Pope Pius IX, Edgardo himself noted that the laws of the Papal States did not allow Catholics to work in the homes of Jewish families ( one reason being to prevent this very situation from happening ).
Edgardo and States
Meléndez is a cousin of band creator Edgardo Diaz, who had success as director of La Pandilla in Spain and who admired the success obtained by The Jackson 5 in the United States.
Garced was later replaced by Edgardo Rubio, ( the son of United States Medal of Honor recipient Euripides Rubio ), who would later on achieve fame in WAPA-TV's Barrio Cuatro Calles, and later played comedic roles in Spanish-language television in Florida.
Edgardo and August
He and fellow infielders Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordóñez, and John Olerud were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the “ Best Infield Ever ”; However, he injured his left knee in August ; when the problem finally came to light, just before the postseason, it had worsened to torn cartilage.
Edgardo and –
" Venezuelan professor Edgardo Lander says that the UNEP's report, Towards a Green Economy, while well-intentioned " ignores the fact that the capacity of existing political systems to establish regulations and restrictions to the free operation of the markets – even when a large majority of the population call for them – is seriously limited by the political and financial power of the corporations.
After completing a degree in piano in 1914 under Edgardo Del Valle de Paz ( 1861 – 1920 ), well-known composer and pianist pupil of Beniamino Cesi, he began studying composition under renowned Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti, and received a diploma in composition in 1918.
* Lucia di Lammermoor — Joan Sutherland ( Lucia ), André Turp ( Edgardo ), John Shaw ( Enrico ), Joseph Rouleau ( Raimondo ), Kenneth MacDonald ( Arturo ), Margreta Elkins ( Alisa ), Edgar Evans ( Normanno ), Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Pritchard, recorded 1961 – Celestial Audio CA 345
In the 1950s – 1960s, the Philippines was among the best in the world, producing world-class players like Carlos Loyzaga, Lauro Mumar, Mariano Tolentino, Francisco Rabat and Edgardo Ocampo.
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