Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro BIO DATA
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro BIO DATA
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro BIO DATA
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.