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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
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.
THE CAVITE MUTINY
GOMBURZA
The 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
Gomburza have 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.