Andr%C3%A9s Bonifacio

Andrs Bonifacio y de Castro was a Filipino revolutionary leader and the first president of the Philippine archipelago which he called Bansa ng Katagalugan or Tagalog Republic instead of Philippines, a name given in honor of Prince later King Philip II of Spain. He is often called the Father of the Philippine revolution and Filipino Nation. He was a founder and later Supremo of the Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or simply and more popularly called Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution. He is considered a de facto national hero of the Philippines, and is also considered by some Filipino historians to be the first President of the Philippines , but officially he is not recognized as such.

Andrs Bonifacio was born in Tondo, Manila, the son of Santiago Bonifacio, a native of Taguig, and Catalina de Castro, a native of Iba, Zambales. He was the eldest of six children. His siblings were Ciriaco, Procopio, Troadio, Esperidiona and Maxima. His father was a tailor who served in the colonial government as a teniente mayor of Tondo, Manila, while his mother was a supervisor at a cigarette factory in Manila and was a mestiza born of a Spanish father and a FilipinoChinese mother. As was custom, upon baptism he was named for the saint on whose feast he was born, Andrew the Apostle.

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