1838 - Spanish colonial friar Pedro P. Pelaez ridiculously calls attention to the supposed ignorance and the ancient barbaric, "idolatry" practices of the Filipino natives during a bold sermon delivered before Gov. Andres Camba made in honor of Nuestra Sra. De la Guia; admonishing the Spaniards for supposedly not doing anything to help the people, Pelaez describes the natives' old "idolatry" practices as "pitiable," mocking them for lacking the concept of a supreme being and for giving reverence to "trees, rocks, reefs and headlands" or their ancestors; the Spanish colonizers who began settling in the Philippines in the 16th century, had destroyed much of the culture and historical records of the Philippines, destroying most traditions of the natives and their system of writing which the Spaniards call as "works of the devil."
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Sketch of Leonor Rivera |
1881 - Leonor Rivera, the girlfriend of Jose Rizal, Filipino patriot and polymath during the Spanish colonial period, chides the latter in a letter for failing to write her earlier; signed "Taimis" (the name by which Rizal calls her), Rivera expresses disgust over Rizal's failure to write her even as he wrote to her father, describing him as "like a newly opened rose, very flushed and fragrant at the beginning, but afterwards it begins to wither."
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Teodora Alonzo de Rizal with young Leonora Rivera |
1896 - Teodora Alonzo de Rizal, the mother of Jose Rizal y Mercado, Filipino patriot and polymath sentenced to die by execution, writes a letter of appeal imploring the Spanish colonial authorities to grant pardon to her son; Alonzo de Rizal, who herself had been persecuted by the Spanish authorities and suffered imprisonment for 21/2 years, writes that the crime of rebellion attributed to her son "has not been proven in a conclusive manner" and that he is in fact "innocent" of the "most infamous of crimes" against the Mother Country; Rizal, who wrote books castigating Spanish friars' abuses against Filipinos, had earlier been convicted by the colonial Council of War of the crimes of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy because of his association with members of the secret-society-turned-revolutionary- government Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan following the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution against Spain in August 1896.
Photo credits: http://joserizal.info/Biography/man_and_martyr/chapter18.htm
http://triciacampos2007.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-9-women-of-rizal/
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