Marcelo H
Marcelo H
Marcelo H
dEL PILAR
BAYANI
Definition of terms
• Curate- a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a vicar,
rector, or parish priest.
• ARCHAIC
• a minister with pastoral responsibility.
• Bloat--to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell:
• Aggravate- to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil,
disorderly, or troublesome:
• Subversive- obsolete: a cause of overthrow or destruction
• Heretic – someone who believes or teaches something that goes
against accepted beliefs.
• Assimilation: an act, process
Biography
Mastermind of the Katipunan Born: 30 August 1850
Historical remembrance
Father of Philippine Journalism" Birth Place: Kupag, San Nicolas,
Father of Philippine Masonry Bulacan.
Father: Don Julian del Pilar
(Gobernadorcello)
Former Family Name: ( Helario)
Mother: Doña Blasa Gatmaytan
Pen name Plaridel
Marcelo H. del Pilar's baptismal A replica of Marcelo H. del Pilar's
register ancestral house and birthplace in
Bulacán, Bulacan. This is now a
museum-library housing del Pilar
memorabilia.
• OCCUPATION: Writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason
• ORGANIZATION: La Solidaridad, created in Spain on December 13,
1888, Composed of Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and students
attending Europe's universities,
• Pedro Payo y Piñeiro, O.P. (1814 – 1889) was the 24th Archbishop of
Manila who took charge in 1876 until his death in 1889.
Anti-friar protest in Manila (1888)
• March 1, 1888-All principales in The manifesto enumerated the
metro manila and nearby abuses/crimes of the friars and
provinces. manifesto Presented demanded their expulsion from
by: Doroteo Cortés and José A. the Philippines including Manila
Ramos to the Queen Regent. Archbishop Pedro P. Payo himself.
• Manifisto Entitled
• Viva España! Viva el Rey! Viva el
Ejército! Fuera los Frailes!" (Long
live Spain! Long live the King! Long
live the Army! Throw the friars
out!
Del Pilar's defense of Rizal's Noli Me Tángere
(1888)
On August 3 of the same year, del Pilar wrote Caiigat Cayó (Be
as Slippery as an Eel. ) under the pen name Dolores Manapat
Valeriano Weyler succeeded Molto as • Dasalan at Tocsohan (Prayers
the governor-general of the Philippines. and Mockeries
Investigations were escalated during
Weyler's term. Gómez Florio, the
• The Pasióng Dapat Ipag-alab
Spanish governor of Bulacan and del nang Puso nang Taong Babasa
Pilar's friend, was removed from his (Passion That Should Inflame the
position Heart of the Reader. This book
• An arrest warrant was issued against was written by del Pilar before
del Pilar. left the country,
• accusing him of being a filibustero • Pedro Serrano y Lactao
(subversive) and heretic. Upon the
advice of his friends and relatives, del
Pilar left Manila for Spain on October
28, 1888.[38]
A copy of La Solidaridad, the principal organ
of the Reform Movement in Spain.
• Del Pilar was also able to organize the Caja de Jesús, María y José, the
objective of which was to continue propaganda and provide
education to indigent children. He managed the organization with
the assistance of Mariano Ponce, Gregorio Santillán, Mariano
Crisóstomo, Lactao, and José Gatmaitán. Caja de Jesús, María y José
was later terminated and replaced by Comité de Propaganda
(Committee of Propaganda) in Manila.
Propaganda movement in Spain (1889–1896)
• on January 1, 1889- del Pilar arrived in Barcelona, Spain
• He headed the political section of the Asociación Hispano-Filipina de
Madrid (Hispanic Filipino Association of Madrid)
• February 17, 1889 -del Pilar wrote a letter to Rizal, praising the young
women of Malolos for their bravery.
• Early 1889 governor weyler approved night school for women.
• on February 22, 1889--Rizal wrote his famous letter to the women of
Malolos, Sa Mga Kababayang Dalaga Sa Malolos (To the Young
Women of Malolos)
La Solidaridad (1889)
• December 15, 1889-- del Pilar succeeded Graciano López Jaena as
editor of the La Solidaridad.
• Using propaganda, it pursued the desires for: assimilation of the
Philippines as a province of Spain; removal of the friars and the
secularization of the parishes; freedom of assembly and speech;
equality before the law; and Philippine representation in the Cortes,
the legislature of Spain.
A copy of La Solidaridad, the principal organ of the Reform
Movement in Spain
The conflict between del Pilar and Rizal
(1891)
• In 1890, a rivalry developed between del Pilar and Rizal. This was
mainly due to the difference between del Pilar's editorial policy and
Rizal's political beliefs.
• On January 1, 1891, about 90 Filipinos gathered in Madrid.
• , the Pilaristas and the Rizalistas: Rizalistas won the first two election.
• Closure of La Solidaridad (1895)
• November 15, 1895. Before his death, del Pilar rejected the theory of
assimilation. Planning an armed struggle, del Pilar stated:
A photograph of the Ilustrados in Madrid (ca. 1890). Del Pilar is standing beside Rizal, second row, sixth
from right.
Later years, illness, and death (1895-1896)
• July 4, 1896 – He was taken to the Hospital de la Santa Cruz (Hospital
Civil) in Barcelona. Del Pilar died there.
• He was buried the following day in a borrowed grave at the
Cementerio del Sub-Oeste (Southwest Cemetery).
• Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have
acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for
evils prove futile.
• This statement inspired the Katipunan, a revolutionary organization
founded by Andrés Bonifacio.
Reactions after death
News of his death reached the Philippines. La Politica de España en
Filipinas, the publication of the Spanish priests, paid respect to him:
• Del Pilar, the Tagalog who, as publicist, inspired us with the
greatest esteem. As a reformist, he is doubtless the greatest
produced by the Tagalog race.[54] ”
Ramón Blanco y Erenas, the Governor-General of the Philippines at
that time, eulogized del Pilar as:
• The most intelligent leader, the real soul of the separatists,
very superior to Rizal