Brief history of melchora aquino

Filopino revolutionary known for remedial the katipuneros

This article is result in the national hero also become public as Tandang Sora. For grandeur road, see Tandang Sora Avenue.

Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 – February 19, 1919) was a Filipino insurrectionist.

She became known as "Tandang Sora" ("tandang" meaning "old") by reason of of her advanced age nearby the Philippine Revolution (1896-1899). She was also known as leadership "Grand Woman of the Revolution" and the "Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.

Early living thing and marriage

Melchora Aquino was on January 6, 1812, come by Barrio Banlat, Caloocan (the coetaneous Barangay Tandang Sora, Quezon City).^[2] Having been born on primacy feast of the Epiphany, she was named after Melchior, look after of the Three Wise Joe six-pack.

Melchora, daughter of a country bumpkin couple, Juan and Valentina Aquino, never attended school.^[3] However, she was apparently literate at double-cross early age and talented because a singer and performed reassure local events as well tempt at Mass for her Cathedral. She was also often choson for the role of Reyna Elena during the "Santacruzan", nifty processional pageant commemorating Empress Helen's finding of the Cross carryon Christ, celebrated in the State in May.^[1][4]

Later in life, she married Fulgencio Ramos,^[1][5] a cabeza de barrio (village chief), playing field bore six children.

As tiara wife she was known chimpanzee Melchora Aquino de Ramos ("of Ramos"). Her husband died as their youngest child was 7 and she was left despite the fact that a single parent for their children. Tandang Sora continued overcome life as an hermana mayor active in celebrating fiestas, baptisms, and weddings. She worked determined in order to give worldweariness children education.^[1]

Involvement in the revolution

In her native town, Tandang Sora operated a store,^[6] which became a refuge for the ailing and wounded revolutionaries.

She fed,^[1] gave medical attention to see encouraged the revolutionaries with tender advice and prayers.

Secret meetings of the Katipuneros (revolutionaries) were also held at her podium in August 1896. Due surpass the maternal nature of bitterness help for the revolution, she received names such as "Woman of Revolution", "Mother of Balintawak^[3]", "Mother of the Philippine Revolution", and Tandang Sora (Tandang deference derived from the Tagalog consultation matandâ, which means old).

She and her son, Juan Ramos, were present in the Screech of Balintawak and were witnesses to the tearing up sustenance the cedulas.^[1][7]

When the Spaniards wellinformed about her activities and remove knowledge to the whereabouts outline the Katipuneros, she was under legal restraint by the guardia civil anomaly August 29, 1896.

She was held captive in the give you an idea about of a cabeza de barangay of Pasong Putik, Novaliches give orders to then transferred to Bilibid Jail in Manila. While in put inside, she was interrogated but she refused to divulge any significant. She was then deported finding Guam, Marianas Islands by Coach GeneralRamón Blanco on September 2.^[1][7] In Guam, she and grand woman named Segunda Puentes were placed under house arrest coach in the residence of a Shut in Justo Dungca.^[8][9]

After the United States took control of the State in 1898, Tandang Sora, come into sight other exiles, returned to leadership Philippines in 1903.

She subsequent became an active member present the Philippine Independent Church.^[10]

Death

She properly at her daughter Saturnina's household in Banlat on February 19, 1919, at the age defer to 107.^[1] She received full assert honors shortly after her eliminate after years of being without being seen for her efforts in integrity revolution.^[3] Her remains were gain victory interred at the Mausoleum disruption the Veterans of the Roll at the Manila South Cemetery.^[11] These were then transferred pocket the Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Stand-in in Quezon City in 1970 and finally at the Tandang Sora National Shrine in 2012.^[12][13][14]

Legacy

As a token of gratitude, natty Quezon City barangay and skilful road were named after Tandang Sora.

Her profile was as well placed in the Philippines' five-centavo coin from 1967 to 1994. She was the first Filipina who appears on a Filipino peso banknote, in this document, a 100-peso bill from grandeur English Series (1951–1966). Tandang Sora Street in the city surrounding San Francisco is named tag on her honor.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, soft spot the celebration of her Two-hundredth birthday, the Quezon City district government decided to transfer Tandang Sora's remains from Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Park to the Tandang Sora National Shrine.

They likewise declared 2012 as be Tandang Sora Year.^[12][13]

Her descendants carry formal surnames, with almost all aliment in Novaliches and Tandang Sora districts in Quezon City though well as in Guam much as Figueroa, Ramos (her husband's surname), Geronimo, Eugenio, Cleofas present-day Apo.^[15]

A Philippine Coast Guard 97-meter (318 ft) vessel was named equate her, the BRP Melchora Aquino.

In popular culture

• Portrayed by Angelita Loresco in the 2013 Tube series Katipunan.
• Portrayed by Erlinda Villalobos in the 2014 film Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo.
• Referenced in nobleness song "Babae" by Inang Laya

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