1. Melchora Aquino became known as "Tandang Sora" because of her old age during the Philippine Revolution.
14 Facts About Melchora Aquino
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Melchora Aquino was known as the "Grand Woman of the Revolution" and the "Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.
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Melchora Aquino was born on January 6,1812, in Barrio Banlat, Caloocan.
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Melchora Aquino's husband died when their youngest child was 7 and she was left as a single parent for their children.
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Melchora Aquino worked hard in order to give her children education.
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Melchora Aquino fed, gave medical attention to and encouraged the revolutionaries with motherly advice and prayers.
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Melchora Aquino was held captive in the house of a cabeza de barangay of Pasong Putik, Novaliches and then transferred to Bilibid Prison in Manila.
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Melchora Aquino later became an active member of the Philippine Independent Church.
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Melchora Aquino died at her daughter Saturnina's house in Banlat on February 19,1919, at the age of 107.
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Melchora Aquino received full state honors shortly after her death after years of being unnoticed for her efforts in the revolution.
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Melchora Aquino's remains were first interred at the Mausoleum of the Veterans of the Revolution at the Manila North Cemetery.
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Melchora Aquino's profile was placed in the Philippines' five-centavo coin from 1967 to 1994.
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Melchora Aquino was the first Filipina who appears on a Philippine peso banknote, in this case, a 100-peso bill from the English Series.
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Melchora Aquino's descendants carry different surnames, with almost all living in Novaliches and Tandang Sora districts in Quezon City as well as in Guam such as Figueroa, Ramos, Geronimo, Eugenio, Cleofas and Apo.