Sanfedismo

Army of Holy Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ
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 Sanfedismo and Sanfedisti 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]