15 February, 1872
Today in Philippine History
The “GOMBURZA” Filipino priest-martyrs are tried by the colonial Spanish military tribunal at the Fort Santiago on trumped-up charges of instigating the Cavite Mutiny during the Spanish colonial period; Fathers Mariano G. Gomez, Jose Apolonio G. Burgos, and Jacinto R. Zamora, who have advocated the secularization of the clergy in the Philippines, will be found guilty and sentenced to death by garrote practically without defense.
Future first Philippine Prime Minister Apolinario M. Mabini would describe the impact of the Gomburza execution on the development of the revolutionary spirit as having made Filipinos “realize their condition for the first time.
Conscious of pain, and thus conscious of life, they asked themselves what kind of a life they lived.”
(Ref: Taga-Ilog News; Photo from filipiknow.net)
