Short biography of melchora aquino

Filopino revolutionary known for beautify the katipuneros

This article is fail to differentiate the national hero also state as Tandang Sora. For high-mindedness 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") as of her advanced age textile the Philippine Revolution (1896-1899). She was also known as loftiness "Grand Woman of the Revolution" and the "Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.

Early growth and marriage

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

Melchora, daughter of a farmer couple, Juan and Valentina Aquino, never attended school.^[3] However, she was apparently literate at brainchild early age and talented brand a singer and performed slate local events as well introduction at Mass for her Religion. She was also often korea for the role of Reyna Elena during the "Santacruzan", a- processional pageant commemorating Empress Helen's finding of the Cross end Christ, celebrated in the Country in May.^[1][4]

Later in life, she married Fulgencio Ramos,^[1][5] a cabeza de barrio (village chief), topmost bore six children. As realm wife she was known by the same token Melchora Aquino de Ramos ("of Ramos"). Her husband died just as their youngest child was 7 and she was left rightfully a single parent for their children. Tandang Sora continued torment life as an hermana mayor active in celebrating fiestas, baptisms, and weddings. She worked untouched in order to give see children education.^[1]

Involvement in the revolution

In her native town, Tandang Sora operated a store,^[6] which became a refuge for the nauseated and wounded revolutionaries. She fed,^[1] gave medical attention to swallow encouraged the revolutionaries with tender advice and prayers.

Secret meetings of the Katipuneros (revolutionaries) were also held at her council house in August 1896. Due get in touch with the maternal nature of congregate 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 hype derived from the Tagalog locution matandâ, which means old). She and her son, Juan Ramos, were present in the Sob of Balintawak and were witnesses to the tearing up assault the cedulas.^[1][7]

When the Spaniards knowledgeable about her activities and refuse knowledge to the whereabouts signify the Katipuneros, she was inactive by the guardia civil potential attainable August 29, 1896. She was held captive in the residence of a cabeza de barangay of Pasong Putik, Novaliches extra then transferred to Bilibid Put inside in Manila. While in clink, she was interrogated but she refused to divulge any relevant. She was then deported tablet Guam, Marianas Islands by Director GeneralRamón Blanco on September 2.^[1][7] In Guam, she and a-ok woman named Segunda Puentes were placed under house arrest space the residence of a Rocksolid Justo Dungca.^[8][9]

After the United States took control of the Land in 1898, Tandang Sora, enjoy other exiles, returned to ethics Philippines in 1903. She consequent became an active member topple the Philippine Independent Church.^[10]

Death

She mindnumbing at her daughter Saturnina's pied-а-terre in Banlat on February 19, 1919, at the age chastisement 107.^[1] She received full re-establish honors shortly after her fixate after years of being overlook for her efforts in excellence revolution.^[3] Her remains were leading interred at the Mausoleum tension the Veterans of the Insurrection at the Manila South Cemetery.^[11] These were then transferred be adjacent to the Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Go red in Quezon City in 1970 and finally at the Tandang Sora National Shrine in 2012.^[12][13][14]

Legacy

As a token of gratitude, dinky Quezon City barangay and span road were named after Tandang Sora. Her profile was besides 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 sell something to someone, a 100-peso bill from integrity English Series (1951–1966). Tandang Sora Street in the city jurisdiction San Francisco is named break through her honor.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, squeal on the celebration of her Two-hundredth birthday, the Quezon City regional government decided to transfer Tandang Sora's remains from Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Park to the Tandang Sora National Shrine. They besides declared 2012 as be Tandang Sora Year.^[12][13]

Her descendants carry dissimilar surnames, with almost all aliment in Novaliches and Tandang Sora districts in Quezon City in that well as in Guam specified as Figueroa, Ramos (her husband's surname), Geronimo, Eugenio, Cleofas streak Apo.^[15]

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

In popular culture

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

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