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Volume 2 | No. 91 | Cagayan de Oro City | June 6-12, 2015
HImugso Heritage Feature:
Historic Balingasag Church in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental.
Mutiny at Calaganan The Case for a Ninth Ray of the sun in the Philippine Flag By Mike Baños, Editor-at-Large
(In commemoration of the 65th Anniversary of the City Charter of Cagayan de Oro, we are bringing back these stories on “Birthing the City”) Many people have tried to win recognition for what local historians claim was the only Katipunan-led revolt in Mindanao at the time of the Cry of Balintawak in 1896, but to this day, the cloak of censorship thrown by Spanish
authorities over the so-called Calaganan Mutiny has effectively stifled efforts to put it in its rightful place of honor in the annals of the Philippine Revolution against Spain. Although it remains a little known fact to this day, Misamis was the only region which actively joined the Katipunan revolt against Spain in 1896. It may have occurred over
100 years ago but reopening the archives on this forgotten chapter of the country’s history could change the way the present Philippine flag looks like. Local historians believe government should fund further research into determining if there is a need to makeover the sun in the Philippine flag with nine instead of eight rays. Every grade school student in the country is taught how the eight rays of the sun in the Philippine tricolor represent the eight provinces in Luzon
which first rose in revolt against the Spaniards in 1896. But Cagayan de Oro historian Antonio J. Montalvan II says existing historical sources indicate there was one other Katipunan-led revolt in the islands which occurred during that same period in 1896 which has not been recognized by Filipino historians. The Calaganan Mutiny is detailed in the letters of Vicente Elio y Sanchez of Camiguin to the Manila-based Spanish newspaper “La
Oceania Española” and two other historical sources but has never been linked to the First Cry of Balintawak led by Andres Bonifacio. Mr. Montalvan believes Mr. Elio’s letters never got past Spanish censors anxious to douse support for the revolution which had broken out in Luzon. Mr. Elio was a classmate of Dr. Jose Rizal at the
Ateneo de Manila. The mutiny exploded in September 29, 1896 among the so-called “Disciplinarios” or conscripts consisting mostly of convicts from Luzon, who were pressed into battle against the Moros in Lanao. In late August of 1896, the Katipunan revolution against Spain Mutiny/PAGE 7
Bringing Hope to Upper Tignapoloan ES BY
JANRY B. COLONIA , Ph.D, AM/TM EPS II Division of Cagayan de Oro
Much has been said about doing ones worth for the country and even less has been done about it. But for some this is a calling that they take into heart.
Pio Valenzuela was the trusted aide dispatched by Andres Bonifacio to foment a Katipunan-led rebellion in Mindanao.
Last June 5, 2015 the kind hearted people of Kristin Educational Exponent headed by Mrs. Cora Sempio and TJ Angeles lead the tinagpoloan/PAGE 7
Women and children took shelter in the St. Augustine Cathedral while the menfolk joined the Spanish soldiers as Voluntarios to stop the incoming force of Disciplinarios from Calaganan.
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