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Cavite Mutiny

The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was an uprising of around 200 soldiers and laborers at Fort San Felipe in Cavite, Philippines who believed it would spark a national uprising against Spanish rule. However, the mutiny was unsuccessful and many participants were executed. This led to increased crackdowns on growing nationalist sentiment. The executions in 1872 of three Filipino priests - Mariano Gomez, Jose Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (GomBurZa) - for their alleged involvement had a profound impact and motivated others like Jose Rizal. While first-hand accounts of the mutiny exist, definitive details remain unclear.

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Cavite Mutiny

The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was an uprising of around 200 soldiers and laborers at Fort San Felipe in Cavite, Philippines who believed it would spark a national uprising against Spanish rule. However, the mutiny was unsuccessful and many participants were executed. This led to increased crackdowns on growing nationalist sentiment. The executions in 1872 of three Filipino priests - Mariano Gomez, Jose Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (GomBurZa) - for their alleged involvement had a profound impact and motivated others like Jose Rizal. While first-hand accounts of the mutiny exist, definitive details remain unclear.

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Cavite Mutiny 1872

A remarkable event during 19th century in the Philippines.

An uprising of military personnel of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite, Philippines on January
20, 1872.

Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national uprising.

The Mutiny was unsuccessful, and government soldiers executed many of the participants and began to
crack down on a burgeoning nationalist movement.

Fr. Robert Reyes - Heads GomBurZa

A caused orientated of priests, nuns brothers and laity who are committed to the struggle for justice,
which they believe is an essential part of witnessing to the gospel.

GomBurZa - An acronym denoting the surnames of the priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Apolonio Burgos
and Jacinto Zamora

The three priests who were executed on 17 February 1872 at Bagumbayan in Manila, Philippines by
Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny.

Their execution left a profound effect on many Filipinos; Jose Rizal the national hero would dedicate his
novel El filibusterismo to their memory.

Mariano Gomez - Parish priest in Bacoor, Cavite was founder of the newspaper La Verdad [The Truth] in
which he described the deplorable conditions of the country and printed the liberal articles of Burgos.
Gomez, Parish priest in Bacoor, Cavite was founder of the newspaper La Verdad (The Truth). In which he
described the deplorable conditions of the country and printed the liberal articles of Burgos. The priests
earned the ire of the Spanish and were called Filibusteros.

Jose Apolonio Burgos - The youngest and most brilliant of the three. Was a Filipino mestizo secular
priest. He got into a tiff more than once with then Archbishop of Manila, Gregorio Martinez in this
regard. Burgos was linked to many activities perceived as hostile towards the Spanish.

The committee was composed of two sections:

1. The Laymen - headed by Joaquin Pardo de Tavera

2. The Clergy - Which included Gomez and Zamora, headed by Burgos

This reform committee staged demonstrations both during the liberal administrations of Gen. Carlos Ma.
De la Torre and the reactionary period under Gen. Rafael Izquirdo.

Jacinto Zamora - He was placed in a mock trial and summarily executed in Manila along with two other
clergymen. He was a Roman Catholic priest.
Rafael de Izquierdo - Made us of this to indicate the native clergy which was then active in the call of
secularization.

Izquierdo and Montero scored out that the main reason of the revolution are the abolition of privileges
of the worked of Cavity.

Izquierdo reported to the King of Spain that the rebels wanted to overthrow the Spanish Gov’t to install
a new harsh in the likes of Father Burgos and Zamora.

John Schumacher - Reveal that the “fact remains”, however, that we still possess no definitive account
of the Cavite Mutiny, nor a satisfactory biography of any of the three priests.

FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS

Josh Montero Y Vidal - A Spanish historian documented the event and highlighted it as an attempt of
Indio's to overthrow the Spanish Gov’t in the Philippines. A Spanish official in manila at the time is the
fullest account of the mutiny itself.

It embodies the official interpretation of the mutiny in Cavite as part of a general revolt, directed of the
three priests and their lay and clerical colleagues in manila Cavite, having as its aim the assassination of
the Governor a General massacre of all Spaniards.

Edmond Plauchut - A Frenchman resident in Manila for some years, indignantly or sarcastically denying
various allegations of the latter. The version of Plauchut presents several difficulties, even if we ignore
the xenophobic attacts of Montero Y Vidal. The account of the execution itself, though apparently that
of an eyewitness, agreeing on substantial points with that Montero Y Vidal.

Joaquin Pardo de Tavera and Antonio Regidor were in contact with Plauchut in Paris at the time he was
writing, and either or both must have served as a source for the events prior to the execution.

The account is therefore indeed valuable, but needs to be checked continually against other sources for
corroboration.

Two other contemporary residents of Manila who wrote on the subject of the Cavite Mutiny offer little
in the way of factual information. Despite the title, Resefia que demuestra el fundamento y causas de
la insurreccion del 20 de Enero en Filipina, the book of Casimiro Herrero, Is philosophical rather than
historical in nature.

Felipe M. de Govantes - The other contemporary writer is Felipe M. de Govantes in his Compendio
Historico de Filipinas. Was a longtime Peninsular Spaniard resident of the Philippines, where he held
various positions in the bureaucracy.

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