13 Facts About Marcela Agoncillo

Marcela Agoncillo finished her studies at Santa Catalina College, Marcela acquired her learning in music and feminine crafts.

Marcela Agoncillo's marriage led an important role in Philippine history.

Marcela Agoncillo has been commemorated in paintings by notable painters as well as through other visual arts.

Marcela Agoncillo Coronel Marino was born on June 24,1859, in Taal, Batangas, Philippines to Don Francisco Diokno Marino and Dona Eugenia Coronel Marino.

Marcela Agoncillo grew up in her ancestral Marino house in Taal, Batangas built in the 1770s by her grandparents, Don Andres Sauza Marino and Dona Eugenia Diokno Marino.

Marcela Agoncillo spent her girlhood partly in their hometown and partly in the convent.

Gregoria Marino Marcela Agoncillo was the first Filipina to graduate from Oxford University.

Don Felipe Encarnacion Marcela Agoncillo, being an exile himself, received any Filipino who came into their house.

On May 17,1898, the flag was delivered personally by Marcela Agoncillo and was packed among the things President Emilio Aguinaldo brought back to Manila.

Marcela Agoncillo took care of their house, which became an asylum.

Marcela Agoncillo once had to sell the children's pinafores and their jewels to support her family and to pay for their voyage back to Manila.

Marcela Agoncillo continued to mourn her deceased husband to such an extent that her daughters found it necessary to hide all his remaining photographs.

Marcela Agoncillo's remains were brought from Taal to Manila and interred alongside her husband in the Catholic cemetery of La Loma according to the wishes of her last will.