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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.
Basilia’s second cousins, Eugenia and Aurea Mendoza Tanchanco were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Tomas Tantoco 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.
Olympia San Agustin Reyes , 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. Basilia Reyes Tiongson , 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.
Agapita Reyes Tiongson , 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.
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