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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 [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) Si Elisia Tantoco Reyes o Seang ay ipinanganak noong Hunyo 14, 1873, sa lumang bahay ng pamilya Reyes sa Pariancillo, Malolos. Siya ang panganay na anak nina Jose T. Reyes at Catalina T. Tantoco. Matapos sumiklab ang Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano, naging isa si Elisea sa mga orihinal na miyembro ng Pambansang Red Cross. Noong 1905, itinatag niya at ng kaniyang mga kaibigan ang Asociacion Femenista de Filipinas. Sinuportahan ni Seang ang mga rebolusyonaryo bago at noong panahon ng Rebolusyon. Tumulong siya sa paglikom ng pondo, pangangalap ng pagkain, damit, at gamot para sa kanila. Mapayapang namatay si Anang sa kaniyang pagtulog sa edad na siyamnapu't anim (96) noong 1969.
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Elisea_Tantoco_Reyes_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Elisea Tantoco Reyes'''] (1873)


'''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, '''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.
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