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Mula nang nabangit ang kasaysayan ng Katipunan o KKK Kataastaasang Kagalanggalang Katipunan ng mga Anak Bayan si Andres Bonifacio kaagad ang nasa kaisipan karamihan sa ating mga Pilipino bagamat may mga naunang Pangulo ang Katipunan na sila Deodato Arellano at Roman Basa ang nanatiling nakaukit sa ating isipan ay ang isang Bodegero na si Bonifacio. Sa aking nakaraang pagsusulat inihinay ko ang kinalaman ni Marcelo H. del Pilar sa Katipunan ayon sa ilang dokumento at mga saksi may mga kaugnayan nga si Plaridel sa lihim na samahan.

Ngunit laking gulat ko (Excited Ulit) sa paghahanap ko ng katotohanan sa kasaysayan di ko man hinahagilap ang mga bagay na ito ay sadyang dumadaan sa landas ng aking pagsasaliksik. Isa rito ang pinagmulan ng konsepto ng Katipunan na nangaling sa isang Iskultor. ( Excited ka n ba?)

Ayon sa aklat na nailimbag noong 1902 The Katipunan An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Studyof the Society which Brought about theInsurrection of 1896–98 & 1899

Taken FromSpanish StateDocumentsByFrancis St. ClairManila “Amigos del Pais,” Palacio

1902

Anim na taon matapos magsimula ang himagsikan noong Agosto, 1896 mayroong nailathalang ganitong impormasyon ngunit kulang sa letra ang nabangit na pangalan.

V. Romualdo de J., sculptor of Sta. Cruz, Manila, declared that he had

founded the Katipunan in 1888, the year in which the manifestation

against the Archbishop was made; he defined the aim of the society

to be "the killing of all the Spaniards and the taking possession of

the islands."

Gaya mo nagtanong din ako siyempre sa sarili ko muna Sino itong Romualdo de J., (DJ ba siya or D Janitor?) ayon sa nakatala isang sculptor sa Sta. Cruz Manila kulang ang inpormasyon na aking nakita hangang sa natagpuan ko kung sino ang taong ito

Sa isang may Alyas Lolong ang Pinagmulan ng Katipunan.

Romualdo Teodoro Delos Reyes De Jesus, kilala sa tawag na Lolong ay isang artist na hindi man lang maihanay kay Guillermo Tolentino. Di katulad ni Tolentino, marami ang hindi nakakakilala sa kanya maging mga estudyante ng sining. Isa siyang alagagad ng Sining na pinanganak sa Maynila siya nagwagi ng Gintong Medalya sa Expocision Universal in Barcelona pero hindi siya naging popular at kinilala katulad ni Juan Luna na nagwagi din sa isang kompetisyon ng sining sa Europa ang Spolarium.

Ayon kay Sir Joseph Viray –chief Visual arts Office, University Center for Culture and Arts at may rango sa Knights of Commander of Rizal.

“With a centenary commemoration of the transfer of Jose Rizal’s mortal remains from Binondo to Luneta on December 30, 2012 organized jointly by the Order of the Knights of Rizal and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, Lolong’s place in Philippine art history is re-emphasized. Lolong’s artwork—the ivory urn which contained the mortal remains of the hero-- is the vessel which possibly could make the sculptor’s artistic excellence highlighted once more in Philippine history.

Urns are looked at by ancient Greeks as symbols for mourning because they contained ashes or bones of dead people.”

11 urnong garing o ivory na dinisenyo ni Romualdo Teodoro de Jesus mula sa Xiao Time

Rizal’s urn. Photo courtesy of Dr. Vic Torres.

Sa madaling salita si Lolong ay naging tagapagturo ni Rizal sa sining ng iskulturo sa Sta. Cruz, Maynila.

O anu ang kinalaman niya sa Katipunan? (excited ka?)

Romualdo Teodoro de Jesus’ 1888 Secret Society Romualdo T. de Jesus ,was Rizal’s mentor in the art of sculpture.He “had organized a secret society designed to achieve the country’s emancipation through violent elimination of all Spaniards in the Philippines. (Molina:Vol.II,29).

Kabilang pala si Lolong sa Lihim na samahan noong 1888 siya ay isang tagapagturo ni Rizal sa sining ng iskultura. Siya ay nakapagorganiza ng isang lihim na samahan binuo para makamit ang emansipasyon n gating bansa sa pamamagitan ng marahas at pagpapatalsik ng lahat ng mga Kastila sa Pilipinas.

Naniniwala din ang isang historyador Jeswita na si Jose Arcilla na ang nasabing lihim na samahan ay muling nabuhay apat na taon ang nakalipas noong 1892 sa pamamagitan ng initiatibo ni Marcelo H. del Pilar- Ang “Katipunan” na nagsindi ng himagsikan ng 1896

Jesuit historian Jose Arcilla believed that this secret society,was successfully revived four years later(1892) through the initiative of Marcelo H.del Pilar- the “Katipunan”- that ignited the Revolution of 1896.

Ayon sa sulat ng isang Gobernor Sibil na si Manuel Luengo noong ika -1 ng Oktubre 1896 nailathala sa Documentos Politicos de Actualidad, Madrid,1897 pahina 218

Excerpts from the Letter of Manuel Luengo, Civil Governor of Manila, to the Minister of The Colonies

The labor of Masonry had not been the labor of a year of two. The society was established many years ago, and according to the statement made in an official investigation held by this government by Romualdo Teodoro de Jesus, a sculptor who has a place of business in the Snata Cruz district of this city, he was the first to establish the Katipunan in 1888, the same year in fact in which an important native manifestation was made in the city of Manila against Archbishop Payo because of the orders of Sr. Quiroga regarding the entry of bodies of the dead into the churches, an affair which created excitement in those days and set a bad precedent in the history of this ungrateful people.

This same Romualdo de Jesus alias Lolong, defines the Katipunan and the purposes of the society, and defines them as laconically as horribly, saying that “ it was to kill all the Spaniards and seize the islands’.

In order to carry out this fearful and criminal idea they found it necessary to recruit many people of all classes and from all provinces, seeking a subtle means to launch the plot. The Filipino peasant being, by reason of his ignorance and his lack of culture, like all peoples of his kind subject o fanaticism, they set about to fanaticize the masses, these hordes of childish people, these ignorant laborers; this they did by means of the pacto de sangre, causing them to swear war to the death against the Spaniards, making an incision in the left arm and with the blood that flowed from the wound they made them sign their frightful oath.

This is all I can, at this time, say regarding the matter that will give a general idea of what is going on here.

Manila, October 1, 1896----Manuel Luengo