Message and Impact of Gomburza execution to the Filipino PDF

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Impact of the Martyrdom of GOMBURZA...

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Message and Impact of GOMBURZA execution to the Filipino And young Jose Rizal

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. In 17th of February 1872, The GOMBURZA were publicly executed, by garrote, on the early morning at Bagumbayan. The passing of GOMBURZA stirred solid sentiments of outrage and hatred among the Filipinos. They addressed Spanish authorities and demanded reforms. The suffering of the three clerics clearly made a difference to rouse the organization of the Propaganda Movement, which aimed to seek reforms and illuminate Spain of the manhandle of its colonial government. The Illustrados led the Filipinos’ quest for reforms. Because of their education and newly acquired wealth, they felt more confident about voicing out popular grievances. However, since the Illustrados themselves were a result of the changes that the Spanish government had been slowly implementing, the group could not really push very hard for the reforms it wanted. The Illustrados did not succeeded in easing the sufferings of the Filipinos. GOMBURZA fought on the issues of secularization in the Philippines that led to the conflict of religious and church seculars. Their execution had a profound effect on many late 19th-century Filipinos; José Rizal, later become the country's national hero, who dedicate his novel El filibusterismo to their memory, to what they stood for, and to the symbolic weight their deaths would henceforth hold: The Government, by enshrouding your trial in mystery and pardoning your co-accused, has suggested that some mistake was committed when your fate was decided; and the whole of the Philippines, in paying homage to your memory and calling you martyrs, totally rejects your guilt. The Church, by refusing to degrade you, has put in doubt the crime charged against you....