Agueda Esteban
Agueda Esteban | |
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Born | Binondo, Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines | 5 February 1868
Died | September 1944 | (aged 76)
Occupation | Point person of the Katipunero |
Agueda Esteban y de la Cruz (5 February 1868 – September 1944) was a Filipina revolutionary. She worked for Katipunero fighters and brought materials from Manila to make gunpowder and bullets, which she delivered to her husband in Cavite.[1] Upon the death of her first husband, Mariano Barroga of Batac, she married Gen. Artemio Ricarte.[2]
Early life
Born in
She married Mariano Barroga of Batac, Ilocos Norte who was the mayordomo in the house of the son of Dona Vicenta. They had three children, Catalina, Adriana and Anastacia.
Katipunan
Her husband joined the
Agueda helped her husband in his revolutionary activities. They travelled between Manila and Cavite in order to secure materials for ammunition to be used by the Filipinos. Their activities remained undetected by the authorities until the first phase of the revolution ended with the
American invasion
During the
On 1 July 1900, all three were arrested in Calle Anda after the authorities discovered
Exile and later life
In 1910, she visited Gen. Ricarte who was in Hong Kong exiled for the second time after refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States. In May 1911, she married the general and lived there from 1910 to 1921 on the small island of Lemah.
When the British government deported political exiles from Hong Kong during the outbreak of World War I, her family was shipped to Shanghai and then Japan. In 1921, they moved to Tokyo, where Gen. Ricarte taught Spanish in an overseas school. In April 1923 they transferred to Yokohama, where they lived permanently and opened a profitable restaurant. They lived there for eighteen years together with their children and grandchildren.
After Japan occupied the Philippines, she came back. In 1944, she fell ill and died.[4]
References
- ^ "Piece of Information - Agueda Esteban". ucoz.com.
- ^ Den. "Pinoy Folk Tales". pinoyfolktales.blogspot.com.
- ^ AGUEDA ESTEBAN
- ^ "Issue Volume 20 Number 11". Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-12.