By Tina Santos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:44:00 01/24/2010
Filed Under: Cory Aquino
MANILA, Philippines -- A monument to the late President Corazon Aquino will be unveiled in Manila on Monday, her 77th birth anniversary.
It is the first memorial shrine honoring the well-loved Aquino, or simply Cory to the Filipino people, according to its sculptor Eduardo Castrillo.
Castrillo made the country’s first statue of Aquino’s martyred husband, Sen. Benigno “Ninoy†Aquino Jr. in Concepcion, Tarlac, as well as another Ninoy statue in the People Power monument on Edsa.
The newly unveiled 15-foot bronze statue of Aquino stands beside a statue of Ninoy (not by Castrillo) on Roxas Boulevard and Padre Burgos Drive across the historic Manila Hotel.
It shows the country’s first woman president flashing the “Laban!†(Fight!) sign with her right hand and holding the 1987 Philippine Constitution with the other.
In front of the two monuments is a sign that reads, “Ninoy-Cory Aquino, Salamat po.â€
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