1. Maria Camila O'Gorman Ximenez was a 19th-century Argentine socialite infamously executed over a scandal involving her relationship with a Roman Catholic priest.
11 Facts About Camila O'Gorman
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Camila O'Gorman was 23 years old and allegedly eight months pregnant when she and Father Ladislao Gutierrez faced a firing squad.
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Camila O'Gorman was the second-to-last of six children in an upper-class family of mixed Irish Catholic, French aristocratic, and Spanish descent.
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Eduardo O'Gorman was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order, and the other as a police officer and the eventual founder of the Buenos Aires Police Academy.
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Camila O'Gorman was the granddaughter of French noblewoman Ana Perichon de O'Gorman, the mistress of the Santiago de Liniers, First Count of Buenos Aires.
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Camila O'Gorman's influence and power led to intrigues intended to discredit her, including allegations that she was a spy for the French or the English.
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Camila O'Gorman was considered a pillar of polite society, a close friend and confidante of Rosas' daughter, Manuelita, and a frequent guest at the Governors Residence.
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Immediately after arriving at the prison, as required by canon law, Father Castellanos, the prison chaplain, visited Camila O'Gorman's cell and performed an emergency baptism of her unborn baby.
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Camila O'Gorman was 23 years old and eight months pregnant with an illegitimate child.
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Eduardo Camila O'Gorman, went into exile in Montevideo after the summary execution of his sister and only returned to his homeland after the 1852 defeat of Rosas at the Battle of Caseros and the Caudillo's subsequent overthrow.
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The Execution Scene of Ladislao and Camila is a classical organ solo by composer Shannon M Grama.