This is what happened to life of Andres Bonifacio with Gregoria De Jesus.
ANDRES BONIFACIO – This is the immortalized tragic story of Andres Bonifacio and Gregoria De Jesus which is not deeply tackled in schools.
What Andres Bonifacio has done and contributed for the country and for our freedom will forever stay. He is the “Supremo Of The Katipunan”. But little known and not deeply discussed in schools is his personal life and his love life.
He is married to the muse of the Katipunan, Gregoria De Jesus but even before they tied the knot, they have gone through so much just to be with each other.
It was around 1892 when Andres saw Oryang for the first time through her cousin Teodoro Plata who happens to be Bonifacio’s friend. And in her autobiography, a passage stated:
“When I was about eighteen years old, young men began to call at our house and among them was Andres Bonifacio, who came in company with Ladislao Diwa and my cousin Teodoro Plata, then clerk of court, but none of them talked to me of love, since parents in those days were extremely careful and girls did not want people to know that they already had admirers.
The truth, however, was that Andres Bonifacio had already informed my parents of his intentions and for nearly a year had been trying to win their approval, although I knew nothing about it. Three months more elapsed before I learned that my father was against Bonifacio’s suit…”
Oryang’s parents strongly objected Bonifacio for their daughter with reasons as such: his age (he was 29 while she was 18) and being a freemason (which at that time is considered as an enemy of the church). And her parents’ objection of their relationship led them to imprison her. However, in a note for the gobernadorcillo of Binondo, Oryang scribbled as per Remit:
“When I was about eighteen years old, young men began to call at our house and among them was Andres Bonifacio, who came in company with Ladislao Diwa and my cousin Teodoro Plata, then clerk of court, but none of them talked to me of love, since parents in those days were extremely careful and girls did not want people to know that they already had admirers.
The truth, however, was that Andres Bonifacio had already informed my parents of his intentions and for nearly a year had been trying to win their approval, although I knew nothing about it. Three months more elapsed before I learned that my father was against Bonifacio’s suit…”
And love truly conquers all. In the end, they ended up together and eventually got married in church and in a ceremony according to Katipunan rites. They have a son but their only son died of smallpox even before he could grow up.
After tragic ending of their son came the tragic ending of their story. April 28, 1897, they were both seized by the men of Aguinaldo along with Procopio, his brother. Andres and Procopio were charged of sedition and executed.
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