1872 CAVITE MUTINY

Every 12th of June every year since 1898

is a very important event for all of the
Filipinos. Filipino communities all over the
world gathers to celebrate the Philippines’
Independence Day

Important as 1986 --- the year when the

Philippine Revolution broke out owing to
the Filipinos’ desire to be free from the
abuses of the Spanish colonial regime.

But we should be reminded that another

year is as historic as two ---- 1872
T WO MAJOR EVENTS HAPPENED IN 1872

1872 Cavite Mutiny

Martyrdom of the three martyr

priests (GOMBURZA)
1872 CAVITE MUTINY

SERGEANT FERNANDO LA MADRID

-- A MESTIZO WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF
CAVITE MUTINY
Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano
Izquierdo y Gutiérrez
 RAFAEL IZQUIERDO

Assumed the governorship and had first

official act, the disapproval of the school
of arts and trades because he had seen
it as a suspicion that the school might be
used as a political club
On the 20 th of January 1872, the Filipino
workers and some marine detachment
mutinied. This was caused by the revocation
by Governor-General de Izquierdo of the
privilege of the Filipino workers to be
exempted from forced labor and from paying
tribute.
 About 200 Filipino soldiers and workers
in Cavite Arsenal, rose in mutiny.
Mutineers, leaded by La Madrid, had a
secret understanding with the Filipino
soldiers in Manila for a concerted
uprising , the signal being the rockets to
be fired in from the city walls
Unfornately, the suburb of Sampaloc in
Manila celebrated the feast of Virgin of
Loreto. The participants of the feast
celebrated the occasion with the usual
fireworks displays
Allegedly, those in Cavite mistook the
fireworks as the sign of attack, and just
like what agreed upon, the 200-men
contingent headed by La Madrid
launched an attack targeting Spanish
officers at sight and seized the arsenal.
The news reached Governor Izquierdo, he
readily ordered the reinforcement of the
Spanish forces in Cavite to quell revolt.
The “revolution” was easily crushed when
the expected reinforcement from Manila
did not come ashore.
The following morning the government troops
under Don Felipe Ginoves rushed to Cavite. A
bloody fight ensued. Many of the mutineers
including La Madrid, was killed in action.

On 22 ND of January 1872, the survivors were

subdued and brought to Manila
The government called the mutiny a
rebellion ordered to arrest of Filipinos
and Mestizos allegedly connected with
the mutiny .
 Among those arrested were Fathers Jose A. Burgos,
Mariano Gomes, Jacinto Zamora, Pedro Dandan,
Toribio Del Pilar, Mariano Sevilla, Agustin Mendoza,
Jose Guevarra and others.

 Among the civillians arrested were Pedro Carillo,

Antonio Regidor , Joaquin Pardo de Tavera and
others.

 They were sentenced to banished to Guam while

Gomes, Burgos and Zamora were sentenced to death
by garrote.
 EXECUTION OF GOMBURZA

 GomBurZa, refers to three Filipino Catholic priests, who were

executed on February 17, 1872 at Bagumbayan, Philippines by
Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising
from the 1872 Cavite mutiny.
 Before the trial, the priests were jailed in Fort
Santiago.
 During the trial, the government failed to prove
convincingly that the accused seculars were really
connected to the January mutiny.
 Governor-general promised to present documents to
prove that three priests were connected to the
“rebellion” as he called the mutiny . But he never
presented any document, until the present time,no
document has been found to show that the
GomBurZa were connected to the mutiny.
 On the 17 th of February 1872, the three priests were
marched from Fort Santiago to Bagumbayan Field.

 When they were executed one by one ---- the Filipinos

who were witnessing the event took off their hats
and knelt in order to pray for the souls of the
innocent priests

 The spaniards who were present, thinking that

Filipinos are preparing to rise in a revolt fled toward
the city.
The blood of Fathers Gomes,
Burgos and Zamora became the
seed of Filipino Nationalism
 Rizal dedicated his 2nd novel El Filibusterismo (The Rebel) to
the memory of the three martyred priests. He said partly:

The Church, by refusing to guide you,

has placed in doubt the crime that has
been imputed in you: the Government, by
surrounding your trials with myster y and
shadows, causes the belief that there was
some error committed in fatal moments; and
the Philippines, by worshipping your memor y
and calling you mar tyrs, in no sense recognizes your culpability
THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT
CONTINUED IT’S CRUEL MEASURES
TO FRIGHTEN THE FILIPINOS INTO
SUBMISSION. BUT THE SEEDS OF
FILIPINO NATIONALISM HAD BEEN
PLANTED .
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 http://nhcp.gov.ph/the-two-faces-of-the-1872-cavite-mutiny/