Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 3):
AUGUST 30, 1850
Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán (August 30, 1850 – July 4, 1896), a writer, lawyer, and journalist was born in Kupang, San Nicolas, Bulacan.
Known as Plaridel, he sat as editor of Diariong Tagalog, a newspaper that criticized the abuses of the Spanish authorities and friars.
He left for Spain after being accused as a subversive. He headed the Asociación Hispano-Filipina de Madrid’s political section and succeeded Graciano Lopez-Jaena as editor of La Solidaridad, the Reform Movement’s newspaper.
He died in Spain after being ill with tuberculosis.
(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved
Photo credit: tumblr.malacanang.gov.ph
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment