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GAGNON, AURORE (baptized Marie-Aurore-Lucienne), known as Aurore the martyred child; b. 31 May in Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville (Fortierville), Que., daughter of Télesphore Gagnon, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Caron; d. there 12 Feb. as a result of physical abuse.

Télesphore Gagnon and Marie-Anne Caron were married on 12 Sept. and they had four children: two girls, Marie-Jeanne and Aurore, and two boys. Their younger son, Joseph, was found suffocated under a straw mattress in November , at the age of two and a half. Aurore’s mother died ten weeks later. Télesphore remained a widower for only a week, and on 1 Feb. married Marie-Anne Houde, the widow of Napoléon Gagnon and a mother of six. She had been living in the same house as the Gagnons when Joseph and his mother died.

On 12 Feb. Andronique Lafond, a physician living in Saint-Jacques-de-Parisville (Parisville), was called to the deathbed of Aurore Gagnon. He found “the young patient in Short biography examples!