150^th Anniversary of GOMBURZA Martyrdom

(17 February 1872 – 17 February 2022)

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) joins the nation in commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the martyrdom of Fathers Mariano Gomes de los Angeles, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as GOMBURZA.

The royal decree of 1774, which provided for the secularization of all parishes or the transfer of parochial authority to Filipino priests (“seculares”), was strongly opposed by the Spanish friars (“regulares”). It was against this charged environment that GOMBURZA were accused and found guilty of allegedly orchestrating the Cavite Mutiny of 1872, and charged with treason and sedition by Spanish authorities. They were sentenced to public execution by garrote in the same year. 

GOMBURZA served as an inspiration for Jose Rizal’s historic work, El Filibusterismo.

The Central Bank of the Philippines (CBP) featured GOMBURZA in the ten-piso English series banknote from 1949 to 1974. 

To know more about the BSP Collections, please visit us at www.bsp.gov.ph/pages/aboutthebank/facilities/BSPMuseum.aspx.

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