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    The Philippine National Flag

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    The Philippine flag was sewn by Marcela Mariño Agoncillo and her assistants in Hong Kong in 1898 at the request of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It featured a white triangle with eight rays representing the first eight Philippine provinces to revolt against Spain. The flag's colors symbolized hope, peace, justice, patriotism and valor. There is some controversy over the exact shades of blue used and whether the original flag was truly lost or hidden for protection. Some propose adding a ninth ray to represent Muslims, while descendants dispute claims of the flag's origin.

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    The Philippine National Flag

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    The Philippine flag was sewn by Marcela Mariño Agoncillo and her assistants in Hong Kong in 1898 at the request of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It featured a white triangle with eight rays representing the first eight Philippine provinces to revolt against Spain. The flag's colors symbolized hope, peace, justice, patriotism and valor. There is some controversy over the exact shades of blue used and whether the original flag was truly lost or hidden for protection. Some propose adding a ninth ray to represent Muslims, while descendants dispute claims of the flag's origin.

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    THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL FLAG

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    The Philippine flag was sewn by Marcela Mariño Agoncillo and her assistants in Hong Kong in 1898 at the request of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It featured a white triangle with eight rays representing the first eight Philippine provinces to revolt against Spain. The flag's colors symbolized hope, peace, justice, patriotism and valor. There is some controversy over the exact shades of blue used and whether the original flag was truly lost or hidden for protection. Some propose adding a ninth ray to represent Muslims, while descendants dispute claims of the flag's origin.

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    The Philippine National Flag

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    The Philippine flag was sewn by Marcela Mariño Agoncillo and her assistants in Hong Kong in 1898 at the request of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It featured a white triangle with eight rays representing the first eight Philippine provinces to revolt against Spain. The flag's colors symbolized hope, peace, justice, patriotism and valor. There is some controversy over the exact shades of blue used and whether the original flag was truly lost or hidden for protection. Some propose adding a ninth ray to represent Muslims, while descendants dispute claims of the flag's origin.

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    THE PHILIPPINE FLAG

    BACKGROUND, SECRETS AND CONTROVERSIES


    NATIONAL FLAG
    October 2, 2019

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    Before 1896, the
    Filipinos had no common
    flag.

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    However, these flags
    cannot be classified as a
    “national” flag.

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    Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo
    aspired to establish a
    new nation to be
    signified by a flag and
    an anthem during the
    second phase of the
    Philippine Revolution. 

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    Doña Marcela
    Mariño Agoncillo
    Who was then living at
    535 Morrison Hill Road in
    Hong Kong.

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     In sewing the flag,
    Mrs. Agoncillo was
    assisted by her
    daughter Lorenza
    and by Delfina
    Herbosa
    Natividad. 

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    After five days of hard
    work, the flag was
    delivered to Aguinaldo
    who went back to the
    Philippines on 17 May
    1898 through S.S.
    McCulloch

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    Fuerzas Expedicionarias del
    Norte de Luzon on one side
    and Libertad Justicia e
    Ygualdad on the other. 

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    “made from fine silk with a white triangle at the left
    containing a sunburst with eight rays at the center, a five-
    pointed star at each angle of the triangle, an upper stripe
    of dark blue and a lower stripe of red.  The white triangle
    stood for the Filipinos’ hope for equality; the blue color
    stood for peace, truth and justice; and the red stood for
    patriotism and valor.  The sunburst of eight rays
    represented the first eight provinces to take up arms
    against Spain, and the three stars symbolized Luzon,
    Visayas and Mindanao.”

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    CONTROVERSIES
    BEHIND THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL FLAG

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    Inclusion of a 9th Ray or Crescent
    in the Flag
    House bill No. 7725 sponsored by Rep. Sultan Omar
    Dianalan of the 1st District of Lanao del Sur petitioned for
    the addition of 9th ray in the rays of the sun in the
    Philippine flag to symbolize the Moslems and the cultural
    minorities who fought the Spaniards and waged war
    against them.

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    How Blue is Blue?
    Emilio Aguinaldo – “Bughaw” it is neither azul oscuro nor azul
    marino.
    Juan Luna’s painting of the flag on May 21, 1899 in “Monograph”
    – China Blue not navy blue
    Mariano Ponce’s letter to Ferdinand Blumentritt – “as blue as sky”
    Marcela Agoncillo - not sky blue or light blue but dark blue.

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    The Original Flag
    In his letter to Captain Baja dated 11 June 1925,
    Aguinaldo mentioned that in their Northward retreat
    during the Filipino-American War, the original flag was
    lost somewhere in Tayug, Pangasinan.
    Other news reports allege that in 1919, Aguinaldo said
    that he lost the flag in the Caraballo mountains of Nueva
    Vizcaya.

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    Descendants of Emilio
    Aguinaldo claim that
    Aguinaldo said the original
    flag was lost only because he
    wanted to protect it.
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    However, it was opposed by
    Marcela Agoncillo, the fifth
    daughter of Doña Marcela
    Agoncillo.

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    However, there is another flag in the
    Baguio museum. The Aguinaldo-Suntay
    family calls it Aguinaldo’s battle flag,
    which is plausible considering the
    bloodstains and dirt that it has. It has a
    dark blue, if not almost black, stripe and
    its stars have faces.

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    Could it be that this was the
    original that the younger Marcela
    referred to in her handwritten
    statement? Or did she base her
    replica on this flag, thinking that
    the battle flag was the original?
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