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A Friar's Account of the Philippine Revolution in Bicol

Andrew Gonzales

Discipline: History, Cultural Studies

 

Abstract:

The manuscript contains a day-by-day account Of the events in Daet and Nueva Caceres as seen by Marcos Gomez, O.F.M. from 14 April 1898 to 26 February 1900, events which saw twenty-four Franciscan friars imprisoned by the Philippine revolutionaries for sixteen months, and finally released by the Americans who arrived in Iriga on 26 February 1900.