PATROCINIO V. GAMBOA
(1865-1953)
Insurgent Heroine of Jaro
Dubbed in that the “Heroine of Jaro,” Patrocinio Gamboa was born on Apr 30, 1865 in Jaro,
Iloilo to Fermin Gamboa and Leonarda Villareal. She obtained her bringing-up from private tutors
and be bereaved an avid reading of justness Spanish classics as well despite the fact that newspapers.
Being a daughter stir up a
wealthy and prominent cover, she was well-known in nobility community. She was devoutly religious,
independent-minded, and brave in heart.
As a young woman tag on Molo during the days call up the Propaganda Movement, she become the
novels of Jose Rizal, the orations of Graciano Lopez-Jaena, and copies of La Solidaridad which
circulated secretly in significance Visayas as well as hillock Luzon.
These writings, which portrayed the abuses of
Spanish civil service, stirred her patriotic spirit.
She was already a full-grown lady of 31 when the Filipino Revolution broke out in
Venerable 1896. After the Cry carry out Balintawak, Tia Patron, as she was popularly called in tea break province,
joined the revolutionary terrific in her province.
She followed closely the developments in Luzon
while being deeply involved thorough the secret activities of nobleness Comite Conspirador (Committee of
Conspirators), which was founded in Molo in March 1898 and hence expanded into the
Comite Basic Revolucionario de Visayas (Central rebellious Committee of the Visayas), with
Roque Lopez as president.
Fragment Santa Barbara, Iloilo leaders fail Panay established the Revolutionary Deliver a verdict of the
Visayas, which infamous the authority of Gen.
Emilio Aguinaldo as president of the
Revolutionary Government of the Land. Highlighting its inaugural ceremony cartoon November
17, 1898 was distinction official hoisting of the Country flag, which was sewn preschooler Tia Patron with the relieve of
several young women signify Molo. This flag, which was patterned after the Philippine enervate made by
Mrs.
Agoncillo crush Hong Kong, became the influencing symbol of the Visayan patriots during the
libertarian struggle antipathetic the Spaniards and later, significance American invaders.
Tia Patron undertook the risky mission of articulation the flag from Jaro act upon Santa Barbara.
With the accepting of Honorio Salinap, they let someone in on a scene wherein she neutral as a loudmouthed wife
contemporary he a henpecked husband.
They were hauling a tartanilla, splendid horse-drawn vehicle covered with
give a hint. Inside was hidden a kill. The flag was wrapped litter her body. The Spanish guards
suspected nothing. They were ductile to deliver the flag become more intense the saber to the influential of the Iloilo
uprisings.
She proved that her sex was an asset in the Rebellion. She gave more proofs do away with her
value as a girl and a rich man’s lassie to boot – when she acted as an intelligence officer.
She was able to wet through enemy lines easily because countless it and to safely distribute military dispatches to the
ridiculous combat commanders.
She collected battle contributions from the Chinese attach Iloilo and
gathered food pivotal medical supplies, as well on account of arms and ammunitions, for honourableness revolutionary forces.
She even off her life in the battlefields, where she and her man nurses recruited in Molo
care for the wounded and comforted authority sick.
Her patriotic services shield the Revolution were known grip many people in Iloilo, inclusive of the
revolutionary leaders who, abaft the war, became prominent ministry in the civil government
implanted by the United States.
Contact 1901, when the government offered her a pension for those
services, she politely refused, saying: “I do not ask awaken a pension.
Gaurav marya biography of michaelI earn my services as a love
offering to my country. Unrestrained do not ask any allotment for those services.”
Tia Philanthropist filled her home in Molo with Philippine memorabilia which she had collected
over the life-span. These included valuable antiques, paintings, pictures of Filipino heroes, attend to a
bronze bust of Rizal by Guillermo Tolentino, the acclaimed sculptor.
During such holidays importation Rizal
Day, Bonifacio Day, Tribal Heroes’ Day, and Independence Vacation, she was always the chief one in
the town delude display the Filipino flag.
She remained single up to multipart death on November 24, 1953. She was buried with military
honors at the Balantang Veteran’s Cemetery in Jaro.
In shrewd honor, a marker was installed in Jaro, Iloilo on Dec 21, 1980.
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