How to be smart and sensible about self-care
Invited to talk about self-care on the Unlock Philippines podcast, I discussed how the lockdown might have driven us to try out…
Since childhood, we have always pictured Andres Bonifacio as a plebeian with brawn and courage. He was the man in...
The original handwritten account of Gregoria de Jesus of the controversial 1897 Tejeros convention in Cavite that resulted in the...
“Explosive letters” written by Andres Bonifacio to Emilio Jacinto about the controversial Tejeros Convention that unseated the Katipunan...
During the Tejeros convention, dominated by Caviteños, Aguinaldo was elected president and Bonifacio, insulted by delegate Daniel Tirona for his lack of education, declared the results invalid.
As the nation is set to commemorate the 154th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio on Nov. 30, his monument in...
Last Monday, we celebrated the 156th birth anniversary of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. Together with Andres Bonifacio, they are primus inter pares among the ranks of our nation’s heroes.
Unlike many families who lost their ancestral homes through the vicissitudes of war, family disputes and time’s ravages, the descendants of Roderico Reyes and Juana Viray of Maragondon, Cavite, have had the good fortune of having theirs preserved as a building of historical significance.
These days, the talk of the town are two phenomena: “Aldub,” the continuing love story on noontime TV; and “Heneral Luna,” a historical film that has achieved the near-impossible feat of sold-out screenings in most theaters for a month now since it opened.
In my admittedly biased opinion, no other play, whether straight or musical, has effectively captured the passion and death of national hero Andres Bonifacio than “Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis,” with music by composer Jerry A. Dadap and libretto by dramatist Dionisio Salazar and poet Rogelio G. Mangahas.
In Cavite on May 10, 1897, Andres Bonifacio, founder of the Katipunan and our second greatest hero, met a cruel, painful death at the hands of Emilio Aguinaldo’s Magdalo partisans. Also killed were his brothers Procopio and Ciriaco.
