Spaniard version of cavite muntiny

1. CAVITE MUTINY

2. CAVITE PROVINCE
• Cavite got its name from a Tagalog word
kawit (which means hook) owing to the
hook-shaped land on the Old Spanish map.
The land was formerly known as "Tangway"
where Spanish authorities constructed a fort
from which the city of Cavite rose.
• It is named as the Historical Capital of the
Philippines. It is the cradle of Philippine
Revolution, and the birthplace of Philippine
Independence.
• is a province of the Philippines located on
the southern shores of Manila Bay in the
CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30
kilometers south of Manila.

3. THE CAVITE MUTINY
• In the cold, gray dawn of the 17th of
February, 1872, people started to
gather on the grassy field of
Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) south of
Intramuros. At first, they were mostly
Spanish soldiers and the Guardia Civil
in their fine uniforms, office holders
and letrados in suits, rotund friars with
their sacristans, principalia in short
black jackets worn over untucked baro.
They were in a festive mood for they
had come to witness a public
execution, always a fiesta in the
Spanish establishment.

4. THE CAVITE MUTINY
GOMBURZA
• three priests in black cassocks,
bound and manacled, escorted
by Spanish friars, guards and
drummers appeared at a gate in
the walled city. They were the
condemned men, Fathers Burgos,
Gomez and Zamora, who had
been sentenced to death for
sedition against the Spanish
Crown and were to be executed
by garrote, the most dreaded
form of execution: strangulation
by a cast-iron vise tightened
around the neck.

5. One thing in
common:
• They were secular native parish priests who did not belong to
any of the religious orders (like the Dominicans, Franciscans
etc.) but served in the dioceses directly under the Pope in
Rome.
They represented the bitter, divisive cause of natives claiming
parishes for themselves for “secularization,” opposed by the
all-powerful friar orders who maintained that Filipinos were
capable only of being boatmen or peons, but should not think
that, because they could mumble Latin prayers they could
now aspire to run whole parishes.
• SECULARIZATION - the activity of changing something (art or education or
society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of
religion

6. EXECUTION BY GAROTTE
• Absurd as that may seem to Filipinos today, the
penalty for holding such views was death by garrote,
and those three Filipinos had been tried and proven
guilty of such high treason.
The first to ascend the gallows was Father Mariano Gomez,
white-haired and visibly aged (he was 72), and indio of
Chinese or Japanese descent, who had been a popular
parish priest in Bacoor, Cavite. Perfectly erect and serene,
he spoke briefly, “Thy Will be done.”

7. Next came Father Jacinto Zamora, a Spanish mestizo
Manileño, a classmate at Letran and Santo Tomas of the
main “traitor” Fr. Jose Burgos. He stared vacantly into space
and had to be led to the black chair. He was 36 and his
arrest order had bore the name of “Jose Maria Zamora,” but the
officer had ignored the obvious error of the mistaken identity
because he had found a scribbled note in the house of Father Jacinto inviting him
to a “reunion” where there would be “lots of powder and ammunition.” It had
actually been an invitation to a card-game and the reference to gunpowder was
priestly slang for “gambling money.” Jacinto Zamora was the parish priest of
Pandacan, but that night he had lost his mind.
Fr. Jose Burgos, 35, a handsome Creole, born in Vigan of Spanish
parents, ascended last. He was the recognized leader of the
“secularization” faction and had written vehement and eloquent
manifestos. His being a full-blooded Spaniard made it plain that
the fight was between the natives, born on Philippine soil, and the
peninsulares, born on the Spanish peninsula. Burgos had called his
faction “Hijos del Pais,” the original concept, which decades later, became
Bonifacio’s “Anak ng Bayan.”

8. • The usual traditional cheers from the Spanish
soldiers and dignitaries erupted as Father
Burgos expired. “Viva España!” “Viva España
en Filipinas!”