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The year was 1851, and in Bologna, a little boy was sick.

That's what his nurse said, anyway.

He was a little Jewish boy, and she was a Catholic nurse, working for the family in violation of the law.

But she genuinely cared about the children.

She cared about this littlest boy, Ed Garo.

She swore she did.

And it broke her heart that he was sick.

The nurse was a young woman herself.

The little boy's illness had gotten so bad that she believed he would die.

She confided in a friend who said it was the merciful thing

to baptize the little boy before he died.

The parents would never have to know. Yes, the Catholic

Church technically forbade baptizing Jews, but it also believed in the sacrament that could save

the innocent baby's soul when it went back to heaven. The nurse believed in that too. She

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