EMERGING NATIONALISM

Alinsangan, Sheena Pearl C.

Kakim, Farnan
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able

to:
• Examine the causes and effects of the Cavite
Mutiny; and
• Explain the conflict between the Filipino secular
priests and the Spanish regular priests
 CAVITE MUTINY
• January 20, 1872
• Approximately 250 Filipino soldiers and workers
rose in revolt at an arsenal in Cavite
• Eleven Spaniards were killed
• The oft-cited reason for the mutiny was a decree
released by Governor General Rafael de Izquerido
• Government forces put an end on the uprising
after three days
• The mutiny failed and the Spanish government
used the incident as a means to suppress the
increasing calls for a more liberal administration
SECULARIZATION MOVEMENT

TWO TYPES OF CLERGY

• REGULAR CLERGY
– prepared for missionary works
– their job was to introduce the faith, convert the
natives, and establish religious communities
• SECULAR CLERGY
– their primary task was the management of the
religious communities and ideally, the continuation
of the work already laid down by the regular clergy
SECULARIZATION MOVEMENT

ISSUES CONTENTIOUS AMONG THE CLERGY IN THE PHILIPPINES

FIRST ISSUE
• Episcopal visitations
– an official pastoral visit conducted by the bishop on a diocese to
examine the conditions of a congregation
– often done once every three years
• An omnimoda bull passed by Pope Adrian VI in 1522 allowed
the regulars to administer the sacraments and act as parish
priests independent from the authority of the local bishop
Secularization Movement
• Regular priests maintained control over the
parishes in the early stages of
Christianization.
• Because of…………
En Viva Conquista Espiritual
Economic reasons
Filipino secular clergy were
unqualified and incompetent
Execution of Gomez, Burgos, and
Zamora

“Late in the night of the 15th of February 1872,

a Spanish court Martial found three secular
priests, Jose Burgos, Mariano Gomez, and
Jacinto Zamora, guilty of treason as the
instigators of a mutiny in the Cavite navy-
yard a month before, and sentenced them to
death.”
Execution of Gomez, Burgos, and
Zamora

“But what crime have I committed? Is it

possible that I should die like this? My God, is
there no justice on earth?”

“But I am innocent!”

- Jose Burgos
Execution of Gomez, Burgos, and
Zamora

“The curtain of ignorance woven diligently for

centuries was rent at last: fiat lux, let there
be light, would not long in coming, the dawn
of a new day was nearing.”