Jacinto Zamora
Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario (born August 14, 1835 in Manila , † February 17, 1872 in Manila) was a Filipino priest of the Roman Catholic Church who campaigned for reforms in the Spanish colony of the Philippines . He is considered a national hero of the Philippines.
He was born as the son of Venancio Zamora and Hilaria del Rosario in Pandacan, a modern district of Manila. In his youth he was considered rebellious. He led a student protest in 1860 and was sentenced to two months in prison for it. At first he served in smaller parishes, and later he worked as an examiner for young priests at the Cathedral of Manila . He studied at the theological faculty of the Pontifical and Royal University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Manila , where he was also influenced by the teachings of Pedro Pelaez . He worked closely with Mariano Gomez and Jose Burgos on the Reform Commission, with whom he went down in Filipino history as the GOMBURZA Trio .
When he was arrested in January 1872 as a result of the Cavite uprising, he was writing his doctoral thesis. During the search, a document was found in which a friend reported that he now had powder and ammunition bullets (literally translated: powder and rifle ammunition ). The document made Zamora highly suspicious. What the investigators did not know or deliberately did not want to take notice of was the fact that Zamora was a passionate card player. The term powder and ammunition meant in the gaming community at the time that money was available for card use. The misinterpretation was fatal for Zamora. He was charged with subversion, found guilty on February 6, and sentenced to death by the Garotte . The execution took place on February 17, 1872 on the site of today's Rizal Park . All that is known about Zamora's execution is that he must have gone mad before the execution. He could neither articulate nor say a prayer.
The death of the Gomburza trio outraged the Filipino public and later inspired the Illostrados movement and the propaganda movement of Filipino students in Europe that led to the establishment of the Liga Filipina , the Katipunan in 1892 and the Philippine Revolution in 1896 . José Rizal set a literary monument to Jacinto Zamora in his work "El Filibusterismo" (The Riot) .
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| SURNAME | Zamora, Jacinto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zamora y del Rosario, Jacinto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino priest of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manila |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1872 |
| Place of death | Manila |