Gregoria De Jesus was born in 1875 in Caloocan, Manila. She was the wife of Andres Bonifacio and became the keeper of secret Katipunan documents after his death in 1897. According to her account, the First Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 25, 1896 near Caloocan. She joined Bonifacio in the mountains after Spanish soldiers sought to arrest her in August 1896. The Katipunan's activities had spread widely in the Philippines by that point. When its existence was discovered and members arrested, Gregoria fled her parents' home at 11pm through rice fields to avoid her own arrest, intending to return to Manila.
Gregoria De Jesus was born in 1875 in Caloocan, Manila. She was the wife of Andres Bonifacio and became the keeper of secret Katipunan documents after his death in 1897. According to her account, the First Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 25, 1896 near Caloocan. She joined Bonifacio in the mountains after Spanish soldiers sought to arrest her in August 1896. The Katipunan's activities had spread widely in the Philippines by that point. When its existence was discovered and members arrested, Gregoria fled her parents' home at 11pm through rice fields to avoid her own arrest, intending to return to Manila.
Gregoria De Jesus was born in 1875 in Caloocan, Manila. She was the wife of Andres Bonifacio and became the keeper of secret Katipunan documents after his death in 1897. According to her account, the First Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 25, 1896 near Caloocan. She joined Bonifacio in the mountains after Spanish soldiers sought to arrest her in August 1896. The Katipunan's activities had spread widely in the Philippines by that point. When its existence was discovered and members arrested, Gregoria fled her parents' home at 11pm through rice fields to avoid her own arrest, intending to return to Manila.
Gregoria De Jesus was born in 1875 in Caloocan, Manila. She was the wife of Andres Bonifacio and became the keeper of secret Katipunan documents after his death in 1897. According to her account, the First Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 25, 1896 near Caloocan. She joined Bonifacio in the mountains after Spanish soldiers sought to arrest her in August 1896. The Katipunan's activities had spread widely in the Philippines by that point. When its existence was discovered and members arrested, Gregoria fled her parents' home at 11pm through rice fields to avoid her own arrest, intending to return to Manila.
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GREGORIA DE JESUS
BORN: May 9, 1875 in Caloocan, Manila
DIED: March 15, 1943 (Aged 67) SPOUSE(S): Andres Bonifacio (m, 1893. wid, 1897) Julio Nakpil (m, 1898. wid, 1943) MOTHER: Baltazara Alvarez Francisco FATHER: Nicolas De Jesus Gregoria De Jesus Version of the First “Cry”
• This Version was written by no other than the “Lakambini of
the Katipunan” and wife of Andres Bonifacio, Gregoria De Jesus. • She became the keeper of the secret documents of the Katipunan. • August 1896, Spanish Soldiers wanted to arrest Gregoria De Jesus. • She joined her husband in the mountains and shared adversities with him. In her account, the First Cry happened near Caloocan on August 25, 1896. “The activities of the katipunan had reached nearly all the corners of the Philippine Archipelago, so that when its existence was discovered and some of the members arrested, we immediately returned to Caloocan.” “ I was with my parents. through my friends, I learned that the spanish were coming to arrest me.Immediately, I fled town at eleven o'clock at night, secretly going through the rice fields to La Lorna, with the intention of returning to Manila. I was treated like an Apparition.”