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PATROCINIO V. GAMBOA
(1865-1953)
Revolutionary Heroine of Jaro
Dubbed as the “Heroine of Jaro,” Patrocinio Gamboa was born on April 30, 1865 in Jaro,
Iloilo to Fermin Gamboa and Leonarda Villareal.
She obtained her education from private tutors
and from an avid reading of the Spanish classics as well as newspapers. Being a daughter of a
wealthy and prominent family, she was well-known in the community.
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She was devoutly religious,
independent-minded, and brave in heart.
As a young woman in Molo during the days of the Propaganda Movement, she read the
novels of Jose Rizal, the orations of Graciano Lopez-Jaena, and copies of La Solidaridad which
circulated secretly in the Visayas as well as in Luzon.
These writings, which depicted the abuses of
Spanish officials, stirred her patriotic spirit.
She was already a full-grown woman of 31 when the Philippine Revolution broke out in
August 1896. After the Cry of Balintawak, Tia Patron, as she was