| Army of Holy Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ | |
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 Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo leading the Sanfedisti in 1799, protected by Saint Anthony | |
| Leaders | Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo |
| Dates of operation | 1799 |
| Group(s) | Southern Italian peasants |
| Active regions | Southern Italy |
| Size | 17,000 |
| Allies | Britain |
| Opponents | Parthenopaean Republic |
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Sanfedismo (from Santa Fede, "Holy Faith" in Italian) was a popular anti-Jacobin movement, organized by Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo, which mobilized peasants of the Kingdom of Naples against the pro-French Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, its aims culminating in the restoration of the Monarchy under Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Its full name was the Army of Holy Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ (Italian: Armata della Santa Fede in nostro Signore Gesù Cristo),[1] and its members were called Sanfedisti.
The terms Santafede, Sanfedismo and Sanfedisti (sometimes rendered in English as 'Sanfedism' and 'Sanfedist') are sometimes used more generally to refer to any religiously motivated, improvised peasant army that sprung up on the Italian peninsula to resist the newly created French client republics.[2][3]
- ^ Burkle-Young 2000, p. 7.
- ^ Duffy 2006, p. 260.
- ^ Davis, John A. (2006). Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-820755-9.