POLITICAL REFORMS UNDER GOVERNOR-GENERAL CARLOS

MARIA DELA TORRE

Governor-General Carlos Maria Dela Torre

1869 to1871 assigned Gov.-General in the Philippines. He easily won the hearts of Filipinos for being liberal or having political and social views favoring reform and progress.

REFORMS:

Established Guardia Civil

Gave amnesty to the rebels

He abolished flogging and media censorship

Secularization of education

DISILLUSIONMENT OVER SPANISH RULE

Spain adhering to the policy of mercantilism

Denied access to education and enjoyment of basic freedom such as speech, press and worship to the Filipinos

Filipino suffered under the tyrannical rule of Spaniards

Few Filipinos succeeded in learning Spanish

Movement of Filipino nationalist group

SECULARIZATION ISSUE

Kinds of Priest during Spanish periods

• REGULAR PRIESTSpanish priest who

belong to any religious order namelyFranciscan,Augustinians,Jesuits,Recollects or Dominicans. Their main task was to spread Christianity.

• SECULAR PRIESTPriests who obtain

their religious training in the Philippines and who were under the direct control of bishops and the archbishops. They were one assigned to serve in the parishes to sustain the spiritual well-being of the parishioners.

1576- Pope V allow regular priest to serve in the parishes

1774- Royal decree was issued ordering the secularization of the parishes. Parishes held by the regulars were turned over to the secular priest.

1776- Another Royal decree issued restoring the regulars to their old parishes and ordering church officials to provide further training to the Filipino priests.

CAVITE UPRISING January

20,1872.Lamadrid, a Filipino Sergeant and the soldiers and workers at the Cavite arsenal rebelled against the withdrawal of their privileges on non-payment of taxes and exemption from forced labor.

This uprising was put down by the forces headed by General Felipe Genoves

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF GOMBURZA

• Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora

• The three priests were tried for their alleged involvement in the Cavite uprising. The trial was mockery.

• At the end of trial, the priests found guilty and sentences to die by garrote at Bagumbayan.

• The execution of GOMBURZA further aggravated the hatred of Filipinos. It become a rallying point for the nationalist movement against the Spaniards.