He was later enrolled in Guillermo Osmeña's private school, and learned English while employed as a clerk-messenger by a British firm. He learned the alphabet through his aunt. His parents named him after Saint Andrew the Apostle, the patron saint of Manila whose feast day falls on his birth date. īonifacio was executed by the revolutionary government of Emilio Aguinaldo in 1897 on the basis of committing sedition and treason against the government.Īndrés Bonifacio y de Castro was born on November 30, 1863, in Tondo, Manila, and was the first of six children of Catalina de Castro, a European Spanish Mestiza, and Santiago Bonifacio, an Alcalde of Tondo, a Chinese Hoklo Mestizo.

Hence, some historians have argued that he should be considered the First President of the Tagalogs instead of the Philippines that is why he is not included in the current official line of succession. With the onset of the revolution, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into a revolutionary government, with himself as President ( Pangulo) of a nation-state called 'Haring Bayang Katagalugan' ('Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People' or 'Sovereign Tagalog Nation'), also 'Republika ng Katagaluguan' (' Tagalog Republic', Republica Tagala in Spanish), where in 'Tagalog' referred to all those born in the Philippine islands and not merely the Tagalog ethnic group. He was one of the founders and later the Kataastaasang Pangulo (Supreme President, Presidente Supremo in Spanish, often shortened by contemporaries and historians to just Supremo) of the Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or more commonly known as the ' Katipunan', a movement that sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Tagalog Revolution. He is often called 'The Father of the Philippine Revolution', and considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines.

Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro ( Tagalog:, Spanish: November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino revolutionary leader.

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