Ang Mga Kababaihan ng Malolos: Difference between revisions

From Wiki Malolos
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
 
(40 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
<pre style="yellow-space: pre;"> Interactive Object: Itapat ang cursor sa mga karakter sa larawan at pindutin upang madala ka sa mga kaugnay na pahina.</pre>
<pre style="yellow-space: pre;"> Interactive Object: Itapat ang cursor sa mga karakter sa larawan at pindutin upang madala ka sa mga kaugnay na pahina.</pre>


<html>
<imagemap>
<img src="https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/images/2/2a/Womenofmalolos.JPG" usemap="#image-map">
File:Womenofmalolos2.jpg|1200px


<map name="image-map">
circle 56 356 52 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aurea_Mendoza_Tanchanco_(Women_of_Malolos) Aurea Tanchangco]
    <area target="" alt="Senorita X" title="Senorita X" href="" coords="-1,410,49,512" shape="rect">
circle 170 350 40 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Eugenia_Mendoza_Tachangco_(Women_of_Malolos) Eugenia Tanchangco]
    <area target="" alt="Aurea Tanchangco" title="Aurea Tanchangco" href="https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aurea_Tanchangco_(Women_of_Malolos)" coords="53,352,47" shape="circle">
circle 264 394 32 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Leoncia_Santos_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) Leoncia Reyes]
    <area target="" alt="Eugenia Tanchangco" title="Eugenia Tanchangco" href="" coords="123,297,215,464" shape="rect">
circle 316 430 31 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Olympia_San_Agustin_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) Olympia Reyes]
    <area target="" alt="Leoncia Reyes" title="Leoncia Reyes" href="" coords="260,383,38" shape="circle">
circle 632 422 38 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Elisea_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) Elisea Reyes]
    <area target="" alt="Olympia Reyes" title="Olympia Reyes" href="" coords="298,384,360,508" shape="rect">
rect 674 366 762 634 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Rufina_Tengco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) Rufina Reyes]
    <area target="" alt="Friars" title="Friars" href="" coords="516,458,67" shape="circle">
circle 776 444 28 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Anastacia_Maclang_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Anastacia Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Elisea Reyes" title="Elisea Reyes" href="" coords="592,371,652,537" shape="rect">
circle 822 424 26 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Juana_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) Juana Reyes]
    <area target="" alt="Rufina Reyes" title="Rufina Reyes" href="" coords="671,361,750,553" shape="rect">
circle 896 446 17 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Basilia_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Basilia Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Anastacia Tiongson" title="Anastacia Tiongson" href="" coords="774,438,27" shape="circle">
circle 936 442 18 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Paz_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Paz Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Juana Reyes" title="Juana Reyes" href="" coords="828,421,29" shape="circle">
circle 972 446 16 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aleja_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Aleja Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Basilia Tiongson" title="Basilia Tiongson" href="" coords="888,442,25" shape="circle">
circle 1010 454 30 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Agapita_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Agapita Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Paz Tiongson" title="Paz Tiongson" href="" coords="935,436,22" shape="circle">
circle 1104 422 27 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Mercedes_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Mercedes Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Aleja Tiongson" title="Aleja Tiongson" href="" coords="972,442,17" shape="circle">
rect 1138 366 1232 626 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Alberta_Santos_Uitangcoy_(Women_of_Malolos) Alberta Uitangcoy]
    <area target="" alt="Agapita Tiongson" title="Agapita Tiongson" href="" coords="1016,447,25" shape="circle">
circle 1248 420 33 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Basilia_Villari%C3%B1o_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) Basilia Tantoco]
    <area target="" alt="Mercedes Tiongson" title="Mercedes Tiongson" href="" coords="1094,421,39" shape="circle">
circle 1322 422 24 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Teresa_Tiongson_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) Teresa Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Alberta Uitangcoy" title="Alberta Uitangcoy" href="" coords="1142,360,1213,532" shape="rect">
circle 1362 446 25 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Maria_Tiongson_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) Maria Tantoco]
    <area target="" alt="Basilia Tantoco" title="Basilia Tantoco" href="" coords="1251,413,34" shape="circle">
circle 1452 406 26 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Feliciana_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Feliciana Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Teresa Tantoco" title="Teresa Tantoco" href="" coords="1323,422,24" shape="circle">
circle 1494 376 36 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Filomena_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Filomena Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Maria Tantoco" title="Maria Tantoco" href="" coords="1371,445,29" shape="circle">
circle 1562 388 38 [https://wikimalolos.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Cecilia_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) Cecilia Tiongson]
    <area target="" alt="Feliciana Tiongson" title="Feliciana Tiongson" href="" coords="1440,417,33" shape="circle">
    <area target="" alt="Filomena Tiongson" title="Filomena Tiongson" href="" coords="1494,372,34" shape="circle">
    <area target="" alt="Cecilia Tiongson" title="Cecilia Tiongson" href="" coords="1529,335,1599,577" shape="rect">
    <area target="" alt="Gov. Gen. Valeriano Weyler" title="Gov. Gen. Valeriano Weyler" href="" coords="901,469,956,600" shape="rect">
</map></html>


== Who were the 20 women of Malolos? ==
desc bottom-left
by Gemma Cruz Araneta
</imagemap>
 
<h1> '''Who were the 20 women of Malolos?''' </h1>
<big>by '''Gemma Cruz Araneta'''</big>


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 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oBSbHBEn15AqspP9p7TiHJgNYjCugLOY/preview 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 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oBSbHBEn15AqspP9p7TiHJgNYjCugLOY/preview letter in Tagalog] in February 1889.


[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Elisea_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Elisea Tantoco Reyes'''] (1873)
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Elisea_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Elisea Tantoco Reyes'''] (1873) and her younger sister, [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Juana_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Juana'''] (1874) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Jose Tiongson Reyes, a reformist constantly harassed by the Spanish colonial government.


[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Basilia_Villariño_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Basilia Villariño Tantoco'''] (1865) was homeschooled. Her father, Gabino, her five brothers and uncle Agustin were Katipuneros; she was initiated into the secret society by her father. The Tantoco home was the Secretaría de Hacienda (Department of Finance) of the First Republic that was taking form in Malolos.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Basilia_Villariño_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Basilia Villariño Tantoco'''] (1865) was homeschooled. Her father, Gabino, her five brothers and uncle Agustin were Katipuneros; she was initiated into the secret society by her father. The Tantoco home was the Secretaría de Hacienda (Department of Finance) of the First Republic that was taking form in Malolos.


Basilia’s second cousins, '''Eugenia''' (1871) and '''Aurea''' (1872) Mendoza Tanchanco were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Tomas Tantoco (1879) who became Justice of Peace from 1887 to 1889. Their mother, Rosenda, alumna of Colegio de la Concordia in Manila was a friend of Fr. Jose Burgos. Aurea married Eugenio Hernando, a doctor of the Spanish forces who defected to the Philippine Revolutionary Army in 1898.
Basilia’s second cousins, [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Eugenia_Mendoza_Tachangco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Eugenia'''] (1871) and [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aurea_Mendoza_Tanchanco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Aurea'''] (1872) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Tomas Tantoco (1879) who became Justice of Peace from 1887 to 1889. Their mother, Rosenda, alumna of Colegio de la Concordia in Manila was a friend of Fr. Jose Burgos. Aurea married Eugenio Hernando, a doctor of the Spanish forces who defected to the Philippine Revolutionary Army in 1898.


'''Leoncia Santos Reyes''' (1864), aunt of '''Elisea''' and '''Juana Tantoco Reyes''', spoke Spanish fluently and was a property owner at 17. She married a primary school teacher, Graciano Tiongson Reyes, her first cousin.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Leoncia_Santos_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Leoncia Santos Reyes'''] (1864), aunt of Elisea and Juana Tantoco Reyes, spoke Spanish fluently and was a property owner at 17. She married a primary school teacher, Graciano Tiongson Reyes, her first cousin.


'''Rufina Tengco Reyes''' (1869) , first cousin of Elisea and Juana Tantoco Reyes, and niece of Graciano Tiongson Reyes, the primary school teacher Leoncia married. The 20 women opened the school in Rufina’s house.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Rufina_Tengco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Rufina Tengco Reyes'''] (1869) , first cousin of Elisea and Juana Tantoco Reyes, and niece of Graciano Tiongson Reyes, the primary school teacher Leoncia married. The 20 women opened the school in Rufina’s house.


'''Olympia San Agustin Reyes''' (1876), half-sister of Leoncia Santos Reyes, was a precocious 12- year old when they “ambushed” Gov. Valeriano Weyler. She married Vicente Tantoco Reyes, brother of Elisea and Juana.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Olympia_San_Agustin_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Olympia San Agustin Reyes'''] (1876), half-sister of Leoncia Santos Reyes, was a precocious 12- year old when they “ambushed” Gov. Valeriano Weyler. She married Vicente Tantoco Reyes, brother of Elisea and Juana.


'''Teresa Tiongson Tantoco''' (1867) and younger sister '''Maria''' (1869) were cousins of the two Basilias and of Eugenia and Aurea Tanchanco. Maria married cabeza de barangay, Lino Santos Reyes. The Tantoco home was the Department of Foreign Affairs of the First Republic.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Teresa_Tiongson_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Teresa Tiongson Tantoco'''] (1867) and younger sister [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Maria_Tiongson_Tantoco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Maria'''] (1869) were cousins of the two Basilias and of Eugenia and Aurea Tanchanco. Maria married cabeza de barangay, Lino Santos Reyes. The Tantoco home was the Department of Foreign Affairs of the First Republic.


'''Anastacia Maclang Tiongson''' (1874) was first cousin to Teresa and Maria Tantoco and second cousin of sisters Eugenia, Aurea and Basilia Tantoco. The whole family would send food and other supplies to the Philippine Revolutionary Army.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Anastacia_Maclang_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Anastacia Maclang Reyes'''(1874) was first cousin to Teresa and Maria Tantoco and second cousin of sisters Eugenia, Aurea and Basilia Tantoco. The whole family would send food and other supplies to the Philippine Revolutionary Army.


'''Basilia Reyes Tiongson''' (ca. 1860) , the oldest of the 20 women, was the daughter of reformist Antonio Morales Tiongson and Juliana Reyes. Marcelo del Pilar was a personal friend. Maria Tantoco and Anastacia Tiongson were her first cousins.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Basilia_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Basilia Reyes Tiongson'''] (ca. 1860) , the oldest of the 20 women, was the daughter of reformist Antonio Morales Tiongson and Juliana Reyes. Marcelo del Pilar was a personal friend. Maria Tantoco and Anastacia Tiongson were her first cousins.


'''Aleja Reyes Tiongson''' (ca. 1864) was the younger sister of Basilia and Paz. Very little is known about her. Paz Reyes Tiongson (ca. 1862) was quite sickly, so was unable to attend the school they fought for so relentlessly.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aleja_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Aleja Reyes Tiongson'''] (ca. 1864) was the younger sister of Basilia and Paz. Very little is known about her.  


'''Mercedes Reyes Tiongson''' like older sisters Basilia, Paz and Aleja sent supplies to the katipuneros. When her father and older siblings died, she took over the management of their lands. She married [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Sandiko,_Teodoro_(Chapter_from_Hinubog_sa_Batong_Buhay) Teodoro Sandico] who became governor and senator.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Paz_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Paz Reyes Tiongson'''] (ca. 1862) was quite sickly, so was unable to attend the school they fought for so relentlessly.


'''Agapita Reyes Tiongson''' (1872) , like her sisters, provided food for the Philippine Revolutionary Army. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Isabel and was married late, at 42, to Francisco Batungbakal. They were childless so Agapita raised a goddaughter as her own.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Mercedes_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Mercedes Reyes Tiongson'''] like older sisters Basilia, Paz and Aleja sent supplies to the katipuneros. When her father and older siblings died, she took over the management of their lands. She married [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Sandiko,_Teodoro_(Chapter_from_Hinubog_sa_Batong_Buhay) Teodoro Sandico] who became governor and senator.


'''Filomena Oliveros Tiongson''' (1865) was the third cousin of Mercedes and Agapita Reyes Tiongson, Anastacia Maclang Tiongson and the Tantoco sisters, Teresa and Maria. In 1889, the parish priest accused her and sister Cecilia of eating meat on Holy Thursday, of rarely going to church and infrequent confessions. Filomena helped the Katipunan and the Malolos Republic. In 1896, with husband (Eladio Adriano) and her sisters, they petitioned Governor-General Camilo Polavieja for clemency for Jose Rizal. Filomena and Rizal’s sisters became close friends.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Agapita_Reyes_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Agapita Reyes Tiongson'''(1872) , like her sisters, provided food for the Philippine Revolutionary Army. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Isabel and was married late, at 42, to Francisco Batungbakal. They were childless so Agapita raised a goddaughter as her own.


'''Cecilia Oliveros Tiongson''' (ca. 1867), Filomena’s younger sister, was known for her sharp tongue. In 1889, the newly- appointed friar curate of Malolos asked the gobernadorcillo to invite the Tiongson sisters to the convent, Cecilia lashed at the hapless local official and accused him of soliciting women for the priest. She too became a close friend of the Rizal sisters.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Filomena_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Filomena Oliveros Tiongson'''] (1865) was the third cousin of Mercedes and Agapita Reyes Tiongson, Anastacia Maclang Tiongson and the Tantoco sisters, Teresa and Maria. In 1889, the parish priest accused her and sister Cecilia of eating meat on Holy Thursday, of rarely going to church and infrequent confessions. Filomena helped the Katipunan and the Malolos Republic. In 1896, with husband (Eladio Adriano) and her sisters, they petitioned Governor-General Camilo Polavieja for clemency for Jose Rizal. Filomena and Rizal’s sisters became close friends.


'''Feliciana Oliveros Tiongson''' (ca. 1869), like her elder sisters Cecilia and Filomena, pleaded for Rizal’s life. Her last years were spent teaching children religion, reading and arithmetic.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Cecilia_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Cecilia Oliveros Tiongson'''] (ca. 1867), Filomena’s younger sister, was known for her sharp tongue. In 1889, the newly- appointed friar curate of Malolos asked the gobernadorcillo to invite the Tiongson sisters to the convent, Cecilia lashed at the hapless local official and accused him of soliciting women for the priest. She too became a close friend of the Rizal sisters.


'''Alberta Santos Uitangcoy''' (1865), first cousin of Leoncia Reyes, received higher education in La Concordia. With Basilia Tantoco and Mercedes Tiongson, she handed the letter signed by the 20 women to Governor-General Valeriano Weyler. She married cabeza de barangay, Paulino Reyes Santos and had nine children. Like the other 19 women, she remained socially involved after fighting two empires, the Spanish and American, in defense of Philippine independence. Only three of the original 20 women of Malolos were alive when Japan invaded the Philippines.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Feliciana_Oliveros_Tiongson_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Feliciana Oliveros Tiongson'''(ca. 1869), like her elder sisters Cecilia and Filomena, pleaded for Rizal’s life. Her last years were spent teaching children religion, reading and arithmetic.


[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Alberta_Santos_Uitangcoy_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Alberta  Santos Uitangcoy''']  (1865), first cousin of Leoncia Reyes, received higher education in La Concordia. With Basilia Tantoco and Mercedes Tiongson, she handed the letter signed by the 20 women to Governor-General Valeriano Weyler. She married cabeza de barangay, Paulino Reyes Santos and had nine children. Like the other 19 women, she remained socially involved after fighting two empires, the Spanish and American, in defense of Philippine independence. Only three of the original 20 women of Malolos were alive when Japan invaded the Philippines.


==<h3> References: </h3>==
* Araneta, G. C. (2022, December 15). Who were the 20 women of Malolos? Manila Bulletin. <br>
https://mb.com.ph/2022/12/14/who-were-the-20-women-of-malolos
* Gota De Leche Manila, Woman of Malolos. Retrieved from:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gotadeleche.ph%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F03%2Fmalolos.jpg&tbnid=20zuj-6CkklICM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gotadeleche.ph%2Fthe-philippine-feminist-movement-from-the-women-of-malolos-to-gota-de-leche%2F&docid=sWD_jcSmKDOjeM&w=770&h=424&hl=en-PH&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm5%2F4&shem=uvafe2


[[Category:Who's who in Malolos?]]
[[Category:Index]]
[[Category:Sining]]  
[[Category:Sining]]  
[[Category:Museong Bayan]]
[[Category:Museong Bayan]]
[[Category:Who's who in Malolos?]]
[[Category:Index]]

Latest revision as of 05:00, 6 June 2025

 Interactive Object: Itapat ang cursor sa mga karakter sa larawan at pindutin upang madala ka sa mga kaugnay na pahina.
Aurea TanchangcoEugenia TanchangcoLeoncia ReyesOlympia ReyesElisea ReyesRufina ReyesAnastacia TiongsonJuana ReyesBasilia TiongsonPaz TiongsonAleja TiongsonAgapita TiongsonMercedes TiongsonAlberta UitangcoyBasilia TantocoTeresa TiongsonMaria TantocoFeliciana TiongsonFilomena TiongsonCecilia TiongsonWomenofmalolos2.jpg
About this image

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.

Elisea Tantoco Reyes (1873) and her younger sister, Juana (1874) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Jose Tiongson Reyes, a reformist constantly harassed by the Spanish colonial government.

Basilia Villariño Tantoco (1865) was homeschooled. Her father, Gabino, her five brothers and uncle Agustin were Katipuneros; she was initiated into the secret society by her father. The Tantoco home was the Secretaría de Hacienda (Department of Finance) of the First Republic that was taking form in Malolos.

Basilia’s second cousins, Eugenia (1871) and Aurea (1872) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Tomas Tantoco (1879) who became Justice of Peace from 1887 to 1889. Their mother, Rosenda, alumna of Colegio de la Concordia in Manila was a friend of Fr. Jose Burgos. Aurea married Eugenio Hernando, a doctor of the Spanish forces who defected to the Philippine Revolutionary Army in 1898.

Leoncia Santos Reyes (1864), aunt of Elisea and Juana Tantoco Reyes, spoke Spanish fluently and was a property owner at 17. She married a primary school teacher, Graciano Tiongson Reyes, her first cousin.

Rufina Tengco Reyes (1869) , first cousin of Elisea and Juana Tantoco Reyes, and niece of Graciano Tiongson Reyes, the primary school teacher Leoncia married. The 20 women opened the school in Rufina’s house.

Olympia San Agustin Reyes (1876), half-sister of Leoncia Santos Reyes, was a precocious 12- year old when they “ambushed” Gov. Valeriano Weyler. She married Vicente Tantoco Reyes, brother of Elisea and Juana.

Teresa Tiongson Tantoco (1867) and younger sister Maria (1869) were cousins of the two Basilias and of Eugenia and Aurea Tanchanco. Maria married cabeza de barangay, Lino Santos Reyes. The Tantoco home was the Department of Foreign Affairs of the First Republic.

Anastacia Maclang Reyes (1874) was first cousin to Teresa and Maria Tantoco and second cousin of sisters Eugenia, Aurea and Basilia Tantoco. The whole family would send food and other supplies to the Philippine Revolutionary Army.

Basilia Reyes Tiongson (ca. 1860) , the oldest of the 20 women, was the daughter of reformist Antonio Morales Tiongson and Juliana Reyes. Marcelo del Pilar was a personal friend. Maria Tantoco and Anastacia Tiongson were her first cousins.

Aleja Reyes Tiongson (ca. 1864) was the younger sister of Basilia and Paz. Very little is known about her.

Paz Reyes Tiongson (ca. 1862) was quite sickly, so was unable to attend the school they fought for so relentlessly.

Mercedes Reyes Tiongson like older sisters Basilia, Paz and Aleja sent supplies to the katipuneros. When her father and older siblings died, she took over the management of their lands. She married Teodoro Sandico who became governor and senator.

Agapita Reyes Tiongson (1872) , like her sisters, provided food for the Philippine Revolutionary Army. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Isabel and was married late, at 42, to Francisco Batungbakal. They were childless so Agapita raised a goddaughter as her own.

Filomena Oliveros Tiongson (1865) was the third cousin of Mercedes and Agapita Reyes Tiongson, Anastacia Maclang Tiongson and the Tantoco sisters, Teresa and Maria. In 1889, the parish priest accused her and sister Cecilia of eating meat on Holy Thursday, of rarely going to church and infrequent confessions. Filomena helped the Katipunan and the Malolos Republic. In 1896, with husband (Eladio Adriano) and her sisters, they petitioned Governor-General Camilo Polavieja for clemency for Jose Rizal. Filomena and Rizal’s sisters became close friends.

Cecilia Oliveros Tiongson (ca. 1867), Filomena’s younger sister, was known for her sharp tongue. In 1889, the newly- appointed friar curate of Malolos asked the gobernadorcillo to invite the Tiongson sisters to the convent, Cecilia lashed at the hapless local official and accused him of soliciting women for the priest. She too became a close friend of the Rizal sisters.

Feliciana Oliveros Tiongson (ca. 1869), like her elder sisters Cecilia and Filomena, pleaded for Rizal’s life. Her last years were spent teaching children religion, reading and arithmetic.

Alberta Santos Uitangcoy (1865), first cousin of Leoncia Reyes, received higher education in La Concordia. With Basilia Tantoco and Mercedes Tiongson, she handed the letter signed by the 20 women to Governor-General Valeriano Weyler. She married cabeza de barangay, Paulino Reyes Santos and had nine children. Like the other 19 women, she remained socially involved after fighting two empires, the Spanish and American, in defense of Philippine independence. Only three of the original 20 women of Malolos were alive when Japan invaded the Philippines.

References: [edit]

  • Araneta, G. C. (2022, December 15). Who were the 20 women of Malolos? Manila Bulletin.

https://mb.com.ph/2022/12/14/who-were-the-20-women-of-malolos

  • Gota De Leche Manila, Woman of Malolos. Retrieved from:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gotadeleche.ph%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F03%2Fmalolos.jpg&tbnid=20zuj-6CkklICM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gotadeleche.ph%2Fthe-philippine-feminist-movement-from-the-women-of-malolos-to-gota-de-leche%2F&docid=sWD_jcSmKDOjeM&w=770&h=424&hl=en-PH&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm5%2F4&shem=uvafe2