Gregorio del Pilar

The Young Citizen was an illustrated monthly magazine for children with content related to the education of young Filipinos.  As the day for independence drew close, military heroes appeared more often in the press. After 1936, the biographical section of The Young Citizen was already named “Gallery of National Heroes”, presenting more militant figures such as Emilio Jacinto, who played a role in the Philippine revolution. In the issue of November 1936, Pacifico Bernardo wrote a biography of Gregorio del Pilar centered on the battle of Tila Pass on December 19, 1898, which had already appeared in a poem in a 1930 publication, Green and White (Vol. VIII, No. 2, October).  On the battle of Tila Pass, Del Pilar ambushed a group of Spanish soldiers with a handful of men “whose only weapons were courage and loyalty”, sacrificing himself to fight for his country unselfishly and against all odds. Bernardo praised Del Pilar’s virtues but especially his kindness in treating people and his respect for the rights of others. Nevertheless, key figures that survived the Spaniards and fought the Americans, such as Aguinaldo or Mabini, were still absent from the public discourse–and therefore, from the UPD periodicals collection.

Fecha

1936-11

Fuente

Bernardo, Pacífico. "Gregorio del Pilar", The Young Citizen, vol. 2, num. 10, November 1936, pp. 285, 293. 

Relación

Ileto, Reynaldo C. 1999. "The Philippine-American War: Friendship and Forgetting", in Vestiges of war: The Philippine-American war and the aftermath of an imperial dream (Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, eds.). New York: New York University Press: 3-21.
Joaquin, Nick. 1981. A question of heroes. Metro Manila: National Book Store. 
Kalaw, Teodoro M. 1974. An acceptable holocaust: life and death of a boy-general. Manila: National Historical Commission.
Quibuyen, Floro. 2002. “Rizal and Filipino Nationalism: Critical Issues.” Philippine Studies 50, num. 2: 193–229. 
Schumacher, John N. 2000. "Review of Rizal and Filipino Nationalism: A New Approach, by Floro C. Quibuyen", Philippine Studies 48, num. 4: 549–71. 
Rafael, Vicente. 1999. "Parricides, bastards and counterrevolution: reflections on the Philippine Centennial", in Vestiges of war: the Philippine American war and the aftermath of an imperial dream 1999. (Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, eds.). New York: New York University Press: 361-375.

Autoría

Pacífico Bernardo

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Materia

Anniversaries

Battle of Tila Pass

Children magazines

Gregorio del Pilar

Philippine Revolution