GROUP5 1

Lesson 2.4: Historical

4TH COFFEE

Source during the period of

Reforms and Propaganda
 MONASTIC SUPREMACY IN 2

THE PHILIPPINES
The Catholic church in the Philippines has two type of priest; Secular priest and Regular priest.
Their main task is to spread christianity. However friars beleived that they answer to no one; no
bishop and even no to the king of Spain who ruled in the Philippines. This means friars transgressed
againts the highest political and religious authorities of the archepilago.
4TH COFFEE

According to Del Pilar: "Monacticism is cosmopolitan; it has no county; it is a

spanish; and to support its ascendancy at the expense of the popular element
would be to subject to a very severe test the endurance of the Filipino people"

Nonethless, Filipinos loyalty always belonged to the Spanish flag, e.g., Dutch threats, British threats and
Chinese uprising. To refresh the fraternity between Spain and the Philippines, Juan Luna painted the blood
compact between Legazpi and Sicatuna in 1886. As a result, the friars imposed their dominance on the
government with their excuse of eliminating the treachery of the Filipino people for over three centuries.
 PRAYERS AND 3

MOCKERIES
In 1888, MH del Pilar published “Dasalan at Tocsohan”
4TH COFFEE

(Prayers and Mockeries). It is a sarcastic and satirical

presentation of the prayers taught by the friars to the
catholic Filipinos

. Two of these include Amain Namin, a

parody of Ama Namin (Our Father), and
Aba Guinoong Baria, a parody of Aba
Guinoong Maria (Hail Mary).
4TH COFFEE 4
 DEATH AND 5

LEGACY
•Del Pilar's difficulties increased when the money to support the newspaper was
4TH COFFEE

exhausted and still, there was no sign of any immediate response from the Spanish ruling
class. •He died from Tuberculosis
•He vigorously affirmed; “Insurrection is the last remedy,
especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the
remedies for evils prove futile.”
 6

Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán ,

commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and
also known by his pen name Pláridel, was a
4TH COFFEE

Filipino writer, lawyer,
journalist, and freemason. Del Pilar, along
with José Rizal and Graciano López Jaena,
became known as the leaders of the Reform
Movement in Spain.

Del Pilar was born and brought up

in Bulacan, Bulacan.