#TodayinHistory in 1835, Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario, one of the unjustly executed #GOMBURZA, is born in Pandacan, #Manila #PH. He was one of those who campaigned for fair treatment of his fellow Filipino (secular) priests under the Catholic Church in #PH. (THREAD)
Born to Don Venancio Zamora, former capitan municipal of Pandacan, and Doña Hilaria del Rosario, Zamora studied in @LetranOfficial and later on, in @UST1611official obtaining a degree in Theology & Canon Law in 1858. He was ordained a priest, serving in Marikina, Pasig, & Lipa.
He was eventually appointed to serve in the Manila Cathedral. Zamora would be friends w/ other reform-minded priests, Jose Burgos & Mariano Gomes, who advocated for the Catholic Church in Spanish #PH, dominated by friars, to consider qualified Filipino priests to hold parishes.
They collectively expressed dissent over the redistribution of the parishes, w/c used to be under the Filipino priests’ charge, but then were turned over, albeit forcefully, to the Recollects to compensate for the said order’s loss of parishes to the returning Jesuits.
On 22 January 1872, around 200 Filipinos led by Francisco La Madrid mounted an uprising in Fort San Felipe, which would be known as the Cavite Mutiny. The uprising failed. Despite weak evidence, the 3 priests were accused of treason as instigators.
Zamora was linked to the mutiny, specifically because the words "powder & munitions" was found in an invitation to him, which was actually only a gambler's phrase, since he loved playing w/ cards among friends.
Upon their sentencing to death by garrote, Zamora, the youngest of the three, overwhelmed by the injustice and fear, lost his mind and went quiet up to the #GOMBURZA execution on 17 Feb 1872. The execution awakened nationalistic fervor among Filipinos.
The Archbishop of Manila, Meliton Martinez, refused believe the politically-motivated execution of the priests, refusing Gov-Gen’s demand of having the priests defrocked. The archbishop had the church bells in the Manila Cathedral tolled in #GOMBURZA's honor and in defiance.
A generation later, Jacinto Zamora's nephew's son, Nicolás Zamora (1875-1914), would become the first ordained Filipino #Protestant pastor, and would establish a separate indigenous #Methodist denomination in #PH. tmblr.co/ZtGCUx2lmEuw9
Photo credits:
- Lithograph portrait of Jacinto Zamora (unknown source)
- Manila Cathedral, 1870, from Eduardo de Leon
- Portrait of Nicolas Zamora from Filipino Methodist History Facebook Page.
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