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She entered the novitiate in Le Mans and received her religious formation at the
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Gascoin was born on March 1, 1818, in Montenay, France. She was the fourth of six children born to middle-class farmers Michel-Jean and Rosalie-Renée Chardon Gascoin. Her mother died in 1822. Leocadie attended the local parish school and spent most of her early life at home taking
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