Reaction Paper of Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo and Andres Bonifacio were friends. This is a fact glossed over in our history books like Historia:Pag-usbong, Pakikipag-tagpo at Pagbubuo by Prof. Raul Roland Sebastian and Dr. Amalia C. Rosales. Aguinaldo, a bachelor and the capitan municipal of Cavite El Viejo (now Kawit), was induced into the Katipunan, a secret revolutionary society founded by Bonifacio, the Katipunan Supremo. This was in March 1895, before Aguinaldo's twenty-sixth birthday (based on my report), in a house on Clavel Street, in Tondo, Manila. It was Santiago Alvarez, his bosom friend and son of Mariano Alvarez, capitan municipal of Noveleta, Cavite, who persuaded Aguinaldo, a mason, to join the Katipunan. Aguinaldo in turn persuaded Alvarez to join the Free masonry.
According to the book that I have read, entitled "Katipunan: si Kuya Andres at Kuya Miong", Alvarez was the cousin of Gregoria de Jesus, wife of Bonifacio. He later became a general of the revolution. In the Katipunan, Aguinaldo, a deeply religious man, adopted the nom de guerre "Magdalo", after Mary Magdalene, the patroness of Kawit. Similarly, Aguinaldo's pseudonym in the Freemasonry was "Colon" after Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, (if I'm not mistaken).
Aguinaldo's affiliation with Bonifacio's Katipunan was a godsend. A popular and charismatic capitan municipal, the highest elective post to which a native could aspire during the Spanish regime, Aguinaldo recruited many new members for the revolutionary society, including his close friend, Candido Tria Tirona, and his first cousin, Baldomero Aguinaldo, both of whom later became revolutionary generals and well-known Kawit residents like Santiago Daño, Canuto Encarnacion, and Tomas Aguinaldo. All were masons like Emilio Aguinaldo, who belonged to the principalia (According to my High School teacher), then the ruling class of each municipality in the country. But those people- peasants and workers- who could not be admitted into Freemasonry for
According to the book that I have read, entitled "Katipunan: si Kuya Andres at Kuya Miong", Alvarez was the cousin of Gregoria de Jesus, wife of Bonifacio. He later became a general of the revolution. In the Katipunan, Aguinaldo, a deeply religious man, adopted the nom de guerre "Magdalo", after Mary Magdalene, the patroness of Kawit. Similarly, Aguinaldo's pseudonym in the Freemasonry was "Colon" after Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, (if I'm not mistaken).
Aguinaldo's affiliation with Bonifacio's Katipunan was a godsend. A popular and charismatic capitan municipal, the highest elective post to which a native could aspire during the Spanish regime, Aguinaldo recruited many new members for the revolutionary society, including his close friend, Candido Tria Tirona, and his first cousin, Baldomero Aguinaldo, both of whom later became revolutionary generals and well-known Kawit residents like Santiago Daño, Canuto Encarnacion, and Tomas Aguinaldo. All were masons like Emilio Aguinaldo, who belonged to the principalia (According to my High School teacher), then the ruling class of each municipality in the country. But those people- peasants and workers- who could not be admitted into Freemasonry for