Mortara is the great-grandniece of Edgardo Mortara, who was taken from his Jewish parents at age six in 1858 by the papal police and raised--in part by Pius himself--as a Catholic.
As his soul seeped out, his grandniece Ava chanted Gandhi's favorite verses from the Hindu holy book Bhagavad-Gita: "Arjuna asked: 'My Lord, how can we recognize the saint who .
Undeniably the grandniece of Immanuel Kant, Miss Germany nonetheless was officially rebuffed by Ambassador von Hoesch.