FATHER JOSE BURGOS

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  1. 3. Archbishop refused; he believed that the three were innocent.
  2. 6. Feb. 15, 1872, Father Burgos was formally charged and secretly tried by a military court.
  3. 7. took his early studies in his hometown, then transferred to the San Juan de Letran where graduated with the degree of Bachiller en Artes with high honors. He studied priesthood in the University of Sto. Tomas.
  4. 12. were garroted in the morning of Feb. 17, 1872 in Bagumbayan.
  5. 15. Simon Anda y Salazar became governor, some parishes became secularized.
  6. 16. Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora were victims of an oppressive government, and martyrs to the cause of the fatherland.
  7. 19. hundred Filipino soldiers mutinied against their Spanish commander and other officers
  8. 20. Filipinos resented this.
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  1. 1. friars propagandized that Filipinos were mentally inferior and were inefficient in discharging high duties.
  2. 2. mutiny was suppressed and the leaders were killed or executed.
  3. 4. Gomez, age 85 was the first to die, followed by Father Zamora, age 37, the Father Burgos who was only 35. They wore their priestly robes to death.
  4. 5. the early years of Spanish rule, there were no secular or Filipino priests assigned as head of parishes.
  5. 8. tragic death encouraged the Filipinos to unite and to struggle hard in order to make their nation strong and their people united.
  6. 9. the prosecutors had presented the charges, Jose Arrieta, counsel for father Burgos, offered no defense.
  7. 10. secular parishes in Cavite Province were given to the Dominicans and the Recollects, and the parishes in other provinces were restored to the Jesuits.
  8. 11. the height of the secularization controversy, the Cavite mutiny took place.
  9. 13. have no foundation in fact or in law.
  10. 14. deny all the charges against me.
  11. 17. Burgos was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur on February 9,1837, his father was a Spanish officer in the militia and his mother was a Spanish Filipina noted for her beauty and intelligence.
  12. 18. priests were expelled from the Philippines and Filipino priests were assigned to take over the parishes they vacated.