The Execution

Of GomBurZa
PRIESTS BACKGROUND:
Mariano Gomez 
 He is Mariano Gómes de los Ángeles,
often referred to by his original birth
name Mariano Gómez de los Ángeles

 was a Filipino Catholic priest, who

was falsely accused of mutiny by the
Spanish colonial authorities in the
Philippines in the 19th century.

 He was placed in a mock trial and

summarily executed in Manila along
with two other clergymen
collectively known as the Gomburza.
Gómez was the head of the three
priests and spent his life writing
about abuses against Filipino
priests.
lv

 Born August 2, 1799 Santa Cruz,

Manila, Captaincy General of the
Philippines, Spanish Empire

 Died February 17, 1872 (aged 72)

Bagumbayan, Manila

 Captaincy General of the

Philippines, Spanish Empire

 Nationality Filipino
Denomination Roman Catholic

 Parents Francisco Gomez

Martina Gomez (née Custodio)
Jose Burgos

 José Apolonio Burgos y García

 Born February 9, 1837 Vigan,

Ilocos Sur, Captaincy General of
the Philippines, Spanish Empire

 Died February 17, 1872 (aged

35) Bagumbayan, Manila,
Captaincy General of the
Philippines, Spanish Empire

 Nationality: Filipino
Denomination Roman
Catholic Parents José Burgos
Florencia Burgos (née García
 José Apolonio Burgos y
García 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.
Jacinto Zamora
 Born 14 August 1835 Pandacan,
Manila, Captaincy General of the
Philippines, Spanish Empire.

 Died 17 February 1872 (aged 36)

Bagumbayan, Manila, Captaincy
General of the Philippines,
Spanish Empire

 Nationality Filipino

 Denomination Roman Catholic

 Parents Venancio Zamora Hilaria

Zamora (née del Rosario)
 After being ordained, Zamora
handled parishes in Marikina, Pasig,
and Batangas. He was also assigned
to manage the Manila Cathedral on 3
December 1864.

 Zamora had a habit of playing cards

after saying Mass. Once, he received
an invitation stating that his friend
had "Powder and Munitions"; in a
gambler's language, "Powder and
Munitions" meant that the player had
much money to gamble with.

 This invitation was used by the

Spaniards as evidence against
Jacinto Zamora. The court accused
them of inciting the revolt, even
though the evidence was not
adequate. They were found guilty and
sentenced to death by garrote. The
execution was carried out on 17
February 1872 at Bagumbayan Field
in Manila.
The Execution
Of GomBurZa
 On January 20, 1872, two hundred Filipinos
employed at the Cavite arsenal staged a
revolt against the Spanish government’s
voiding of their exemption from the payment
of tributes. The Cavite Mutiny led to the
persecution of prominent Filipinos; secular
priests Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and
Jacinto Zamora—who would then be
collectively named GomBurZa—were tagged
as the masterminds of the uprising.
 The priests were charged with treason and
sedition by the Spanish military tribunal—a
ruling believed to be part of a conspiracy to
stifle the growing popularity of Filipino
secular priests and the threat they posed to
the Spanish clergy. The GomBurZa were
publicly executed, by garrote, on the early
morning of February 17, 1872 at Bagumbayan
 The Archbishop of Manila refused to defrock
them and ordered all church bells to toll in their
praise; in this case, the Sword denied the moral
justification of the Cross. The three secular
priests' martyrdom would reverberate across
Filipinos, and their grief and fury over their
execution would spark the first stirrings of the
Filipino revolution, making them the first
secular martyrs of a budding national identity.
Jose Rizal would dedicate his second novel, El
Filibusterismo, to the memory of GomBurZa, to
what they represented, and to the symbolic
significance of their deaths
 A man named Saldua was said to have been
bribed to implicate Burgos and the two other
priests. On 17 February 1872, the date of the
execution, a huge crowd of around forty
thousand assembled at the execution site in
Bagumbayan. The first to be executed was
Saldua.

 They were the condemned men, Fathers Burgos,

Gomes 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.


 It was believed by Governor Rafael Izquierdo
that the Filipinos will create its own
government and allegedly, the three priests
were nominated as the leader of the planned
government in order to break free of the
Spanish government.

 The death of Gomburza sparked widespread

outrage and indignation among Filipinos.
They interrogated Spanish officials and
demanded improvements. The illustrados
were in the forefront of the Filipinos' reform
movement. They felt more confidence about
airing popular issues as a result of their
education and newly acquired affluence.
 REPORT BY:

ARAÑO, GERICHO M.
BARRION, DERICK LORENZ M.
MANALO, TRISTAN
ICARO, JUDYLYN C.
REYES, MIKAELA