Wala ta kahibalo bisag wala nay sala bay, dili man sa nawong makit-an ang kinaiya sa tao.
bitaw. si padre mariano gomez, padre jose burgos, ug padre jacinto zamora gi-garrote pod baya intawon. di tawon sila nawong ug rapists. nahimo hinoong national heroes. (mag-kj usa kog sineryos ha?)
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The so-called Cavite Mutiny of workers in the arsenal in the naval shipyard over pay reduction owing to increased taxation produced a willing witness to implicate the three priests, who were summarily tried and sentenced to death by garrote.
...Significantly, in the archives of Spain, there is no record of how Izquierdo (the Spanish governor-general), himself a liberal, could have been influenced to authorize these executions. The aftermath of the witchhunt produced scores of suspects most of whom were exiled to Guam in the Marianas, who, except a few who managed to escape to other ports like Hong Kong, died there in penury. It was a period when a pall of hopelessness enveloped the country, steeling the resolve and patriotism of a sentient minority, giving rise to a new generation of heroes of whom Rizal was to become the standard bearer. (wikipedia)
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Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora were the most prominent victims. They were implicated because their enemies wanted to silence the movement, headed by the three, to secularize the parishes in the Philippines. A military court sentenced the three priests to die by the garrote on February 17, 1872.
In a massive outpouring of public sympathy, thousands gathered at the execution site even before dawn. Archbishop Meliton Martinez refused to defrock them despite the Governor-General's demand and ordered the tolling of bells of Manila churches as a funeral dirge for the executed priests. (from an article in Manila Bulletin, February 17, 2004)
FR. MARIANO GOMEZ
02 June 1824 - 17 February 1872
'Father Gómez... went to his death heroically.'
FR. JOSE BURGOS
09 February 1837 - 17 February 1872
'Father Burgos, hoping for a reprieve which never came and scanning the distance till the very last moment, met his death soaked in his own tears.'
FR. JACINTO ZAMORA
14 August 1835 - 17 February 1872
'Father Zamora... guileless and totally befuddled, died with a whimper.'
kamo bay ma-garrote, lalim bah.
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