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Cavite Mutiny
Cavite Mutiny
What Happened
to the
Cavite Mutiny
MUTINY
• A rebellion against authority.
• Comes from an old verb, “mutine”
which means “revolt”
1872
A HISTORY YEAR OF
TWO EVENTS
1. CAVITE MUTINY
A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE
AWAKENING OF NATIONALISM
AMONG THE FILIPINO
Arsenal Cavite
• Production of amours
• Place of the workers and troops
CAVITE MUTINY
• Uprising of military personnel of Fort San
Felipe
• Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in
the belief that it would elevate to a national
uprising.
• Mutiny was unsuccessful
• Government soldier executed many of the
participants.
2. THE MARTYRDOM OF
THE THREE PRIESTS
Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora
GOMBURZA
• Collective name of the three
martyred priests
• Tagged as the masterminds
of the Cavite mutiny.
• They were prominent
Filipino priest charged with
treason and sedition.
FATHER MARIANO
GOMEZ
• An old man in his mid-’70,
Chinese-Filipino, born in Cavite.
• He held the most senior position
of the three as Archbishop’s
Vicar in Cavite.
• He was truly nationalistic and
accepted the death penalty
calmly as though it were his
penance for being pro-Filipinos.
FATHER JOSE BURGOS
• Spanish descent, born in the
Philippines. He was a parish
priest of the Manila Cathedral
and had been known to be
close to the liberal Governor
General de la Torre.
• He was years old at the time
and was active and outspoken
in advocating the Filipinization
of the clergy.
FATHER JACINTO
ZAMORA
• 37 years old, was also Spanish,
born in the Philippines.
• He was the parish priest of
Marikina and was known to be
unfriendly to and would not
countenance any arrogance or
authoritative behavior from
Spaniards coming from Spain.
SPANISH ACCOUNTS OF THE
CAVITE MUTINY
1. Montero’s account of the Cavite
mutiny
2. Official report of governor Izquierdo
on the Cavite mutiny of 1872
JOSE MONTERO Y VIDAL
• Spanish historian
• His account centered on how
the event was an attempt in
overthrowing the Spanish
• His account on mutiny was
criticized as a woefully
biased.
An excerpt from
MONTERO’S ACCOUNT OF
THE CAVITE MUTINY
“…the idea of attaining their
independence. It was towards
this goal that they started to
work, with the powerful
assistance of a certain section
of the native clergy…”
GOVERNOR RAFAEL IZQUIERDO
• Implicated the native clergy,
who were active in the
movement toward
secularization of parishes.
• In a biased report, he
highlighted the attempt to
overthrow the Spanish
government in the Philippines
to install a new “hari” in the
persons of Father Burgos and
Zamora.
ACCORDING TO IZQUIERDO
Native clergy attracted supporters by giving
them charismatic assurance that their fight
would not fail because they had God’s
support, aside from promises of lofty
rewards such as employment, wealth, and
ranks in the army.
An excerpt from “…It has not been clearly
THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF GOV. IZQUIERDO
determined if they planned
ON THE CAVITE MUTINY OF 1872 to establish a monarchy or a
republic, because the Indios
have no word in their
language to describe this
from of government…”
1872
WAS PREMEDITATED, A PART OF A BIG
CONSPIRACY AMONG EDUCATED LEADERS,
MESTIZOS, LAWYERS AND RESIDENTS OF
MANILA AND CAVITE.
JANUARY
20,1872
THE DISTRICT OF SAMPALOC CELEBRATED THE FEAST OF THE VIRGIN
LORETO, CAME WITH IT WERE SOME FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
WERE TRIED BY
A COURT-MARTIAL
AND SENTENCED
TO BE EXECUTED.
ON
FEBRUARY
17,1872
THE GOMBURZA WERE EXECUTED IN PUBLIC TO SERVE AS A
THREAT TO FILIPINOS NEVER ATTEMPT TO FIGHT THE SPANIARDS
AGAIN