CAVITE MUTINY

Dela torre wrote to the overseas minister

in madrid his conviction

"with rate exceptions there is not a priest

or a lawyer born in this country with some
education and influence who, both now and
always has not employed them in creating
around him aspirations for independence"
"In spite of my effort and the exquisite care i dedicate to this matter, i
have not been able to find out anything concrete about their project“

If this was the situation under relatively liberal dela torre, it became
far worse under his successor which is izquerdo.

Izquerdo began to received anonymous accusations against priest and

lawyers, and the archives shows that he paid attention to all of them.
In his letters the two contradictory assertions occur over and over
again, and he had not been able to surprise any alleged and
conspirators but at the same time he was absolutely convinced by their
guilt.

There's only one incident that needed to bring about the downfall of all
of izquerdo objects of suspicion and that incident was the Cavite
Mutiny.
The facts are these , there was unrest among the worker in the arsenal
of cavite - over the fact that their traditional exemption and
compulsary labor had been abolished january 20, 1872 ..
The filipino soldier killed their spanish officers,
The spanish commander was able to send word to manila . Next
morning 2 regiment arrived under gen. Felipe ginoves espinar , second
in command to izquierdo. The mutineers were able to hold out the
whole day of jan. 21.but nextmorning the spanish forces with naval aid
were able to break through the walls of the fort and kill or capture the
mutineers and the court martial began.
The commander sent words to izquierdo
requesting the arrest of father burgos . As a
result of interrogation of mutineers who had
been told that burgos was behind the revolt.
however , on the preceding day while the fighting
still going on , izquierdo had already ordered the
arrest of , burgos , zamora, pardo de tavera,
regidor and the other priest and lawyer in
manila.
With gomez being arrested in bacoor shortly
afterward.
 GOMBURZA
Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, Jacinto Zamora
MARIANO GOMEZ DE LOS ANGELES
- First to be executed
- Born in Sta. Cruz Manila
- on August 2, 1799
- Studied at the University of Sto. Tomas
- Served as Parish priest in Bacoor Cavite
- He was the oldest of the three martyrs
- His famous last word is “Let us go where
the leaves never more without the will of
God”
JACINTO ZAMORA DEL ROSARIO
- Second to be executed
- Born in Pandacan, Manila on August 14,
1835
- Working for a doctorate in canon law at
the University of Sto. Tomas
- Served as parish priest in Marikina, Pasig
and Lipa
- He was connected at the Manila Cathedral
where he served as an examiner for a new
priest.
JOSE APOLONIO BURGOS Y
GARCIA
- Last to be executed
- Born in Vigan Ilocos Sur on February 9,
1837
- Most distinguished among the three
martyrs
- Having earned two doctorates, one in
Theology and another one in Canon Law
- He was a prolific writer
- He is also connected in Manila Cathedral
- He was a good swordsman and boxer
- Roman Catholic priest who advocated the
reform of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
- Burgos studied at San Juan de Letran College
and the University of Santo Tomás in Manila,
earning a doctorate of philosophy and a
licentiate in canon law.
- Burgos' liberal views, codified in editorial
essays, championing political and ecclesiastic
reforms in favor of empowering more native
clergymen, made him a target of opposition by
Roman Catholic authorities.
NO EVIDENCE
OF REVOLT
Peninsular Spain was in political chaos as power
passed from one liberal or republican faction to
another. The Italian-born king Amadeo 1, who in
1870 had been brought in to succeed the
overthrown Isabel II, was himself about to
abdicate, after which Spain would become a
republic in 1873. In Manila, although Izquierdo
had put an end to all efforts at reform, there
must have been considerable discussion about the
newspapers in the Peninsula that managed to get
into the Philippines.
 Surviving documents from Izquierdo’s collection show
two things: first that he was quite aware of everything
the activists were doing, having intercepted their mail
and second, that none of what he collected from his
censors gave any evidence of plans for a re volt.
As for Burgos in November 1871, just two months
before the Cavite Mutiny, he obtained his doctorate in
canon law in addition to the doctorate he already had in
theology and his licentiate in philosophy. He was at the
time corresponding with Manuel Regidor, a close associate
of the republican deputy Rafael M. Labra.