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Danielle Orcales BSN-IV

Stanly James Pagente
Lucille Christy Pao
Joshua Alfred Parpan
Jherico Patosa

A. Do the mapping out

Claimants Date Place Basis

August 25, Balintawak Lt. Olegario

1896 Diaz of the
Spanish
Guardia Civil
Lt. Olegario
reported that
Diaz
the Cry
happened in
Balintawak on
August 25,
1896.

Last week of Kangkong, The event

August Balintawak occurred
Teodoro Kalaw during the
last week of
August 1896
at Kangkong,
Balintawak,
according to
Teodoro
Kalaw's 1925
book The
Filipino
Revolution.
 AUGUST 23, Bahay Toro, Unlike the
1896 Quezon City author of the
Santiago first version
Alvarez AUGUST 24, mentioned
1896 (Valenzuela),
Santiago
Alvarez is
not an
eyewitness of
this event.
As a result,
this version
of him is not
given of
equal value
as compared
with the
other
versions for
authors of
other
accounts are
actually part
of the
historic
event. Below
is his
account:Sunda
y, August 23,
1896 As
earlyas 10
o’clock in
the morning,
at the barn
of Kabesang
Melchora
[Melchora
Aquino-Z.],
at a place
called
Sampalukan,
barrio of
Bahay Toro,
Katipuneros
met together.
About 500 of
these
arrived,
ready and
eager to join
the “Supremo”
Andres
Bonifacio and
his men …
Monday,
August 24,
1896 There
were about
1,000
Katipuneros …
The “Supremo”
decided to
hold a
meeting
inside the
big barn.
Under his
leadership,
the meeting
began at 10
o’clock in
the morning …
It was 12
o’clock noon
when the
meeting
adjourned
amidst loud
cries of
“Long live
the Sons of
the Country”
(Mabuhay ang
mga anak

ng Bayan)!Pio
ValenzuelaAug
ust 23,
1896Pugad
LawinOn the
other hand,
later in his
life and
witha fading
memory, he
wrote his
Memoirsof the
Revoluti

on without
consulting
the written
documents of
the
Philippine
revolution
and claimed
that the
“Cry”

took place at
Pugad Lawin
on August 23,
1896. Below
ishis account
on this
topic: On the

other hand,
later in his
 life and
witha fading
memory, he
wrote his
Memoirsof the
Revolution

without
consulting
the written
documents of
the
Philippine
revolution
and claimed
that the
“Cry” took

place at
Pugad Lawin
on August 23,
1896.

August 23, Pugad Lawin It was at

1896 Pugad Lawin,
Pio Valenzuela the house,
store- house,
and yard of
Juan Ramos,
son of
Melchora
Aquino, where
over 1,000
members of
the Katipunan
met and
carried out
considerable
debate and
discussion on
 August 23,
1896. The
discussion
was on
whether or
not the
revolution
against the
Spanish
government
should be
started on
August 29,
1896. After
the
tumultuous
meeting, many
of those
present tore
their cedula
certificates
and shouted
“Long live
the
Philippines!
Long live the
Philippines!”

August 26, Balintawak The Cry of

1896 at the house Balintawak
Guillermo of Apolonio occurred on
Masangkay Samson, then August 26,
the caneza of 1896. The
the barrio of Cry, defined
Caloocan. as that
turning point
when the
Filipinos
finally
refused
Spanish
colonial
dominion over
the
Philippine
Islands. With
tears in
their eyes,
the people as
one man,
pulled out
their cedulas
and tore them
into pieces.
It was the
beginning of
the formal
declaration
of the
separation
from Spanish
rule.” Long
Live the
Philippine
Republic!”,
the cry of
the people.
An article
from The
Sunday
Tribune
Magazine on
August 21,
1932 featured
the
statements of
the
eyewitness
account by
Katipunan
 General
Guillermo
Masangkay, “A
Katipunero
Speaks”.

August 26, Balintawak Historian

1896 Gregorio
Gregoria de Zaide stated
Jesus in his books
in 1954 that
the “Cry”
happened in
Balintawak on
August 26,
1896.

August 25, Balintawak He was a

1896 historian by
Gregorio Zaide profession.
In his works
published in
1984,
Gregorio
Zaide said
that the cry
actually
happened on
August 26,
2896 in
Balintawak.

August 23, Pugad Lawin He was a

1896 historian by
Teodoro profession.
Agoncillo Based on Pio
Valenzuela's
claim,
Teododoro
 Agoncillo
stated in
1956 that it
occurred at
Pugad Lawin
on August 23,
1896.

Milagros August 24, The According to

Guerrero, 1896 Katagalugan Chua, the
Emmanuel Republic and three claimed
Encarnacion, the Cry of that when the
and Ramon Pugad Lawin Philippine
Villegas Revolution
ignited on
August 24,
1896, the
secret
revolutionary
society
Kataas
Taasang
Kagalang-gala
ng na
Katipunan ng
mga Anak ng
Bayan (KKK,
or Katipunan)
became the
country’s
revolutionary
government.
The
historians
concluded
that since
Bonifacio was
leader of the
Katipunan,
Bonifacio was
 also the
president of
the new
revolutionary
government.

Other Claimants

B. How did the National Historical Commission of the

Philippines resolve the controversy?
- Limasawa, not Masao, named first Easter site
- The National Historical Commission of the Philippines
(NHCP) settled the controversy over the official site
of the 1521 Easter Sunday Mass in the country by
favoring Limasawa in Southern Leyte instead of Masao
in Butuan City.
- Dr. Rene Escalante, chairman of NHCP and executive
director of the National Quincentennial Committee,
said they revisited the issue surrounding the site of
the 1521 Easter Sunday Mass in the Philippines as part
of its mandate to resolve historical controversies.
- He cited Antonio Pigafetta, the chronicler of the
Magellan-Elcano expedition, who wrote that the first
mass happened on March 31, 1521 in a place he
identified as Mazaua.
- In a statement released on Wednesday, August 19, NHCP
announced that it signed on July 15, 2020 Resolution
No. 2, adopting the report submitted by the six-man
panel of scholars led by historian and National Artist
for Literature Dr. Resil Mojares who reviewed the
issue surrounding the site of the 1521 Easter Sunday
Mass in the Philippines.
- “The panel was convened in response to the requests
from various institutions, including the Catholic
Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), even as
the anticipation of the Filipino Catholic faithful had
just begun for the 500th anniversary of the
 introduction of Christianity in the Philippines,” the
commission said.
- “The decision of the National Historical Commission of
the Philippines (NHCP) provides sweet vindication for
my nearly 20-years old research and advocacy that
Mazaua = Limasawa and that the 1521 Easter Sunday Mass
(previously termed as the ‘First Mass’) was held in
the vicinity of the present Barangay Triana in western
Limasawa, Southern Leyte, and not in Butuan in
Mindanao,” said Dr. Rolando Borrinaga, who advocated
for Limasawa.