HERO Flashcards
Chairman/Director of National Historical Institute 1971-1981
Esteban de Ocampo
Rizal wrote the most powerful literature of the ?
Reform Movement
Rizal went to Spain to?
to report to the Spanish government abuses being committed in the country.
Rizal endured four years of lonely
exile in Dapitan.
Rizal bravely faced a firing squad on
December 30, 1896.
convened as a selection committee
Commissioner William Howard Taft
Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, Gregorio Araneta, Cayetano Arellano, Jose Luzuriaga
“The revolution prepared by Bonifacio was only the effect, the consequence of the spiritual redemption wrought
by the pen of Rizal.”
Rafael Palma
“No law, executive order nor proclamation has been enacted or issued officially proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as a national hero.”
Legislative Research Service Congress of the Philippines
creating the National Heroes Committee “to study, evaluate and explicitly recommend Filipino historical personages as national heroes in due recognition of their sterling character and remarkable achievements for the country”
March 28, 1993 Executive Order No. 75
Technical Committee: National Heroes Committee
1.Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz
2. Mrs. Carmen Guerrrero Nakpil
3. Dr. Samuel K. Tan
4. Dr. Marcelino Foronda
5. Dr. Alfredo Lagmay
6. Dr. Bernardita Churchill
7. Professor Minerva Gonzales
8. DOM Ignacio Maria (Ambeth Ocampo)
9. Dr. Serafin Quiason
1995: Selection of Nine (9) to be declared as National Heroes
- Jose Rizal
- Andres Bonifacio
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Apolinario Mabini
- Marcelo H. del Pilar
- Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat
- Juan Luna
- Melchora Aquino
- Gabriela Silang
It discourages the passage of law in declaring national heroes.
NATIONAL HISTORICAL INSTITUTE
It prefers public acclamation as the means to recognize heroes
NATIONAL HISTORICAL INSTITUTE
It favors the issuance of laws and proclamations to HONOR certain Filipinos who have rendered service to the country
NATIONAL HISTORICAL INSTITUTE
Who: Maintaining residences as shrines
Apolinario Mabini & Juan Luna
