Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro BIO DATA

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ANDRÉS

BONIFACIO Y DE
CASTRO
THE FATHER OF PHILIPPINE
PROFILE
REVOLUTION
Bonifacio was blessed with good hands
in craftsmanship and visual arts that he
made canes and paper fans, which he EDUCATION
and his young siblings sold. He also
made posters for business firms. This
Orphaned early, he interrupted his primary schooling in order to
became their thriving family business
earn a living as a craftsman and then as clerk-messenger and agent
that continued on when the men of the
of foreign commercial firms in Manila. Absorbing the teachings of
family, namely Andres, Ciriaco,
classic rationalism from the works of José Rizal, Victor Hugo's Les
Procopio, and Troadio, were employed
Miserables, Eugène Sue's The Wandering Jew, books on the French
with private and government
Revolution, and the lives of the presidents of the United States,
companies, which provided them with
Bonifacio acquired an understanding of the dynamics of the
decent living conditions.
sociohistorical process. This led him to join the Liga Filipina, which
Rizal organized in 1892 for the purpose of uniting and intensifying
In his late teens, he worked as a
the nationalist movement for reforms.
mandatario (agent) for the British
trading firm Fleming and Company,
where he rose to become a corredor
(broker) of tar, rattan and other goods. KNOWN FOR
He later transferred to Fressell and
Company, a German trading firm,  Philippine Revolution
where he worked as a bodeguero  Cry of Pugad Lawin
(storehouse keeper) responsible for  Battle of Manila (1896)
warehouse inventory. He was also a  Battle of San Juan del Monte
theater actor and often played the role  Battle of Pasong Tamo
of Bernardo Carpio, a fictional  Battle of San Mateo and Montalban
character in Tagalog folklore.

EARLY POLITICAL MARRIAGES


ACTIVISM Andres Bonifacio was married twice: first to a certain Monica in
In 1892 Bonifacio was one of the Palomar, Tondo. She was Bonifacio's neighbor in Tondo. Monica died
founding members of José Rizal's La Liga of leprosy and they had no recorded children.
Filipina, an organization which called for
political reforms in Spain's colonial In 1892 Bonifacio, a 29-year-old widower, met the 18-year-old
government of the Philippines. However, Gregoria de Jesús, through his friend Teodoro Plata who was her
La Liga disbanded after only one meeting cousin. Gregoria, also called Oriang, was the daughter of a
as Rizal was arrested and deported to prominent citizen and landowner from Caloocan. Gregoria's parents
Dapitan in Mindanao. Bonifacio,
did not agree at first to their relationship as Andrés was a freemason
Apolinario Mabini and others revived La
Liga in Rizal's absence and Bonifacio was and freemasons were then considered enemies of the Catholic
active at organizing local chapters in church. Her parents eventually gave in and Andrés and Gregoria
Manila. He would become the chief were married through a Catholic ceremony in Binondo Church in
propagandist of the revived Liga. March 1893 or 1894. The couple also were married through
Katipunan rites in a friend's house in Santa Cruz, Manila on the same
La Liga Filipina contributed moral and day of their church wedding.
financial support to the Propaganda
Movement of Filipino reformists in Spain.
They had one son, born in early 1896,[29] who died of smallpox in
infancy.[24][30]

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