la revolucion filipina apolinario mabini pdf

He worked as a teacher of Latin in Lipa but completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1887.

In working for his Law degree at the University of Santo Tomas from 1888 to 1894, he supported himself by teaching and working as a copyist in the court of first instance in Manila and later as an assistant to law clerk Numeriano Adriano and as a clerk in the Intendencia General.

He joined the Masonry on September 1892 and adopted the name Katabay.

He was not able to participate in the first part of the Revolution due to his physical condition.

In April 1898 he wrote a manifesto addressed to the revolutionary leaders wherein he analyzed the probability of the cession of the Philippines to the United States in case Spain was defeated in the Spanish American War.

He exhorted them to preserve the country and its independence.

It must have been this document that was received by the Hongkong Junta headed by Felipe Agoncillo who, impressed by the logical views presented, recommended the author to General Aguinaldo as his adviser upon his return to the Philippines from exile.

When Aguinaldo returned to the Philippines on May 19, 1898, he sent runners to Laguna to fetch Mabini and to carry him in a hammock to Cavite.

After the intial meeting on June 12, 1898, Mabini became the indispensable adviser to Aguinaldo on indispensable state matters.

Significant achievements of Mabini were: the abolition of the Dictatorship of Aguinaldo government and its conversion into a revolutionary government, the organization of the municipalities, provinces and judicature and the police force; the establishment of the civil registry of property; the issuance of regulations for military procedure and the ultimate policies of government as were embodied in Aguinaldos decree dated June 23, 1898.

When the Filipino American war broke out, he fled to Nueva Ecija but was captured by the Americans in Cuyapo on December 10, 1898.

He resided in a small nipa house in Nagtahan and earned his living by writing for local newspapers.

Reluctantly he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and was returned to the Philippines on February 26, 1902.

Though he was offered a high government position, he turned it down preferring to retire to his humble residence in Natahan.

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 May 13, 1903) was a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote the constitution for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first prime minister in 1899.

In Philippine history texts, he is often referred to as the Sublime Paralytic, and as the Brains of the Revolution.

To his envious enemies, he is referred to as the Dark Chamber of the President.

Apolinario Mabini (1864-1903) Sublime paralytic and the brain of the revolution.

He was captured by the American forces in December 1899 and deported to Guam in January 1901.

La Revolucion Filipina Apolinario Mabini Pdf