Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 3):
October 28, 1888
Marcelo H. Del Pilar left Manila for Spain on October 28, 1888 after an arrest warrant was issued against him by the Spanish authorities headed by newly installed Governor General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, the 92nd Governor-General of the Philippines.
Weyler also known as the Butcher, ordered the arrest and deportation of the participants of the anti-friar demonstrations including Spanish officials.
Del Pilar's relatives and friends advised him to leave after he was accused of being a heretic and a filibustero.
The night before leaving, he stayed in the house of his friend Pedro Serrano y Lactao, who was a fellow Bulaqueño.
Shortly before his trip, he formed the Caja de Jesus, Maria y Jose with the aim to continue the propaganda and provide education to indigent children.
He managed it with the assistance of Mariano Ponce, Gregorio Santillan, Mariano Crisostomo, Pedro Serrano y Lactao, Jose Gatmaitan, Briccio Pantas, Teodoro Sandiko, Apolinario Mabini, Numeriano Adriano, Doroteo Cortes, Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, Domingo Franco, Mamerto Natividad, Mariano Alejandrino, Marcelino Santos, Modesto Español, Juan Zulueta, Graciano Bautista, Pedro Dandan, and Fr. Rafael Canlapan, who was the coadjutor of Malolos from 1885 to 1893.
The Comité de Propaganda (Committee of Propaganda) replaced the Caja de Jesus, Maria y Jose after it was discontinued.
(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved
Photo credit: Presidential Museum
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