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      • José Burgos (born Feb. 9, 1837, Vigan, Phil.—died Feb. 17, 1872, Manila) was a Roman Catholic priest who advocated the reform of Spanish rule in the Philippines. His execution made him a martyr of the period preceding the Philippine Revolution.
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    José Apolonio Burgos y García (February 9, 1837 – February 17, 1872) was a Filipino Catholic priest, accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century. He was tried and executed in Manila along with two other clergymen, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora , who are collectively known as the Gomburza .

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    Colonial Philippines was a completely feudal society, with its institutions propped up to serve the land-owning class of Spanish peninsularesand the friars. The Catholic Church was no exception; in some cases, the Church was even the deciding factor. The Church was a nexus of power, culture, politics, and ultimately, economy. In early colonial Phil...

    Contrary to the pictures depicting him as a younger man, Gomez was already 72 when he sentenced to die. He was an ilustradoto the core, with his nephew, Dominador, eventually becoming an influential figure in the labor movement. In his younger years, he was just as militant, fighting for the rights of the secular clergy and agrarian reform, which m...

    Unlike Gomez or Burgos, Jacinto Zamora was not an exemplary priest. He was anything but—he had a habit of playing cards during mass. While the others could be said to have died for some sort of conviction, Zamora was a gambling priest who had little care in the world. One day in 1872, he received a letter that one of his gambler friends had “bullet...

    Burgos has been described as a “precursor to Rizal,” the type of secular priest who really clamored for Filipino rights. As a student, he was said to have incited a demonstration that ended in violence when the Letran administration tried to curb students’ rights and imposed its candidate in student council elections. As a priest, he co-headed a re...

    In the end, the three priests were killed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) by garrote, and they were buried in Paco Park in unmarked graves. Their deaths were by no means small events at the time. The ilustradoclass was furious and demanded an explanation and reforms. Twenty years later, during the 1890s, a new crop of ilustradoswould take inspiratio...

  3. José Burgos (1837-1872) was a Filipino Catholic Priest and a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests into the Catholic hierarchy of the Philippines, then dominated by Spanish friars.

  4. Padre Jose Ma. Burgos studied in San Juan de Letran. He sought equal treatment for browns and whites. He was busy seeking reforms when the Cavite Revolt broke out in 1872. Padre Burgos was suspected to be one of those inciting the people to revolt.

  5. In February 17, 1872, Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jocinto Zamora (Gomburza), all Filipino priest, was executed by the Spanish colonizers on charges of subversion. The charges against Fathers Gomez, Burgos and Zamora was their alleged complicity in the uprising of workers at the Cavite Naval Yard. The death of Gomburza awakened strong ...

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    José Apolonio Burgos y García was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur on February 9, 1837, and was baptized on the 12th of the same month. His parents were Jose Burgos, a Spanish lieutenant in the Spanish militia of Ilocos, and Florencia Garcia, a native of Vigan.

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