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placed in the same coffin. Only then did Reyes write to Rosas and inform him that his orders had been carried out. In the aftermath of their deaths, Sarmiento and the Unitario Party opposition changed their tone drastically and wrote about the executions using terms such as "the beautiful girl", "the doomed couple", and "the repression of love". Camila was 23 years old and eight months pregnant with an illegitimate child. Father Gutiérrez was 24 years old.

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wrote, "No one advised me to execute the priest Gutiérrez and Camila O'Gorman, nor did anyone speak to me on their behalf. On the contrary, all the leading members of the clergy spoke or wrote to me about this insolent crime and the urgent necessity to make an exemplary punishment to prevent similar

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A memoir first published in 1883, Antonino Reyes, who had served Rosas for 14 years and was his aide-de-camp, secretary, sergeant major, and chief of police at Santos Lugares Prison, recalled being so moved that he decided not to witness the executions and out of compassion ordered both bodies to be

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hostile to Rosas. As the scandal broke, Adolfo O'Gorman sent a letter to Rosas accusing Gutierrez of having seduced Camila, "under the guise of religion". Adolfo described himself and his family as heartbroken and pleaded that his daughter be rescued from the man he accused of having kidnapped her.

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but merely detention for a time to clear the scandal they had caused, in a simple affair of love which harmed no one, only themselves. The most lamentable aspect was that she was eight months pregnant. The governor was informed, but this gentleman ignored the innocent creature in the womb, did not

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with a piano and books. However, Rosas rejected his daughter's pleas, claiming that the scandal, "needs a show of my undisputed power, as the moral values and sacred religious norms of a whole society are at stake". At the time, Rosas had removed the administration of justice from the courts and

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had been erected. Camila was considered a pillar of polite society, a close friend and confidante of Rosas' daughter, Manuelita, and a frequent guest at the Governors Residence. In her late teens, Camila was introduced to Father Ladislao Gutiérrez, whose family had persuaded him to enter the

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was the only institution within Argentina's Catholic Church which continued to speak out against Rosas' police state tactics. This led Rosas to later banish the Jesuits from Argentina. Father Gutiérrez also came from a similar background; his uncle was the provincial governor of Tucumán,

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and returned to Buenos Aires. Camila claimed she had initiated her relationship with Gutierrez and insisted on their elopement, angrily denying rumors that she had been raped. From Buenos Aires, Rosas had given strict orders – the fugitives were to be sent to the prison of

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Rosas, who, according to John Lynch, "was curiously proud of his judgment", claimed sole responsibility in his memoirs for having ordered the executions and, conveniently overlooking the pleas on Camila's behalf from his own daughter, the former

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and placing consecrated ashes on her forehead. The next morning, 18 August 1848, O'Gorman and Gutiérrez were taken to the courtyard, tied to chairs, and blindfolded. As Camila was "standing tragically in white", both were executed by

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According to historian John Lynch, "The savage sentence was the responsibility of Rosas alone. The higher clergy and the lawyers seem to have urged severity, but he subsequently denied that he was influenced by any outsider."

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also describes the horror that the executions caused, "These deaths caused shock and sadness among all the inhabitants of the city, for an offense which was not thought to deserve the

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taken it upon himself. "To the astonishment even of hardened officials, in spite of Camila's plea that she was pregnant", Rosas signed a decree ordering their immediate executions.

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and lawyer Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield "demanded an exemplary punishment of the wayward daughter that was also giving the industrious and well-regarded community a bad name".

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later commented, "It would have been better for Rosas to have lost a battle than to shoot Camila, such was the damage which he did to his prestige and authority."

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wait for the mother to give birth, and ordered her to be shot. Such a thing had never happened in Buenos Aires; by killing two, three died."

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In reality, the executions, according to historian John Lynch, were "a new cause of alienation from his regime." British journalist and

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declared that Rosas was responsible for the moral corruption of Argentine womanhood. Camila and Ladislao were recognised by an

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The Scarlet Trinity: The Doomed Struggle of Camila O'Gorman against Family, Church and State in 19th-Century Buenos Aires

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in separate carriages – as indicated by Foreign Relations Minister Felipe Arana in his warrant of arrest.

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scandals in the future. I thought the same. And as it was my responsibility, I ordered the execution."

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The Execution Scene of Ladislao and Camila is a classical organ solo by composer Shannon M. Grama.

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in the title role. It was one of the first feature films made in Argentina, and is now

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of his sister and only returned to his homeland after the 1852 defeat of Rosas at the

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both dramatized and versified the story of Camila and Fr. Gutiérrez in his 1926 poem

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occurred, Liniers masterminded the successful recapture of Buenos Aires from the

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Médicos y policías durante la epidemia de fiebre amarilla (Buenos Aires, 1871)

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Adolfo O'Gorman's letter to President Juan Manuel de Rosas (21 December 1847)

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and who had attended the same Jesuit seminary as Camila's brother Eduardo.

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priest, Fr. Michael Gannon. Other Irish Argentines, including Father

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From 1829 to 1852, the Argentine Confederation was governed as a

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Executions of Camila O'Gorman and Father Ladislao Gutiérrez

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executed over a scandal involving her relationship with a

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Immediately after arriving at the prison, as required by

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Before reaching their final destination, Camila wrote to

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Los Irlandeses en Argentina: su Actuación y Descendencia

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of her unborn baby. This consisted of Camila drinking

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