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== Who were the 20 women of Malolos? == | == Who were the 20 women of Malolos? == | ||
by Gemma Cruz Araneta | |||
They wanted to open their own night school and hire a professor to teach them Spanish. To the Agustinian parish priest it was an act of defiance; to Marcelo del Pilar, Graceano Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal, Filipino women were throwing off colonial shackles. Rizal was overjoyed that there were women like them in the Philippines. He wrote them a letter in Tagalog in February 1889. | They wanted to open their own night school and hire a professor to teach them Spanish. To the Agustinian parish priest it was an act of defiance; to Marcelo del Pilar, Graceano Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal, Filipino women were throwing off colonial shackles. Rizal was overjoyed that there were women like them in the Philippines. He wrote them a letter in Tagalog in February 1889. | ||