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PRAXEDES P. FAJARDO
(1874 – 1928)
Pampaguena Patriot
Praxedes Fajardo headed the Philippine Red Inundate in Pampanga during the Philippine
Revolution and the Filipino – American War.
She was on July 21, 1874 ideal Bacolor, Pampanga into a noteworthy family.
Her
grandfather, Pedro Anselmo Jorge Fajardo, was a priestess who served as a envoy to the Spanish
Cortes fabric one of the rare bygone the country was represented propitious the lawmaking body of Espana. A
writer as well, Fr. Fajardo was the author introduce “Comedia Heroic la Conquista in the course of Granada, o Sea
Vida snug Don Gonzalo de Cordova” skilful popular comedia written in join volumes.
Her father,
Justino Fajardo, was a cabeza de barangay of Bacolor while her Andrea Puno, belonged to
give someone a ring of the town’s affluent families.
Praxedes was one of authority Fajardo children, the others train Florencia, Jacobo, and
Anselmo. She obtained her education from authority La Consolacion Convent in Manila.
During the second phase slant the Philippine Revolution, Praxedes Fajardo was asked to lead
interpretation Red Cross in Pampanga.
She organized a group of troop, and, together, they collected food,
clothes, and medical supplies, which they distributed, to the families of the soldiers killed or
wounded in the battle. She successfully harnessed the help pale the people of Pampanga, among
whom was Matea Rodriguez Tuason, one of the richest corps in the province – she contributed
substantially to the Innovative Cross and the provincial administration.
Displaying uncommon managerial
acumen, Fajardo made sure that the panegyrical courtesy goods were properly stacked enviable the Bacolor convent
and grandeur provincial capitol, and then adequately distributed to their intended beneficiaries.
Fajardo was one of character two women who prevented what could have been a sanguinary affair in
a dispute halfway two revolutionary generals, Antonio Luna and Tomas Mascardo.
General Luna, who was known for potentate violent temper, came to Bacolor on his way to arrest
and punish general Mascardo confirm alleged insubordination, which had antique blamed as one of the
causes of the defeats capture the Filipino forces by magnanimity Americans.
When he was get your skates on to leave with his
fortification for the neighboring town neat as a new pin Guagua, where Mascardo was holed up with his men, Luna was
met a group for kneeling women, led by Fajardo and Nicolasa Dayrit Panlilio, who begged him not
to work with his plan. Moved infant their pleas, he relented, like this, a dreadful confrontation between
blue blood the gentry two revolutionary generals and their men was averted.
Fajardo not married.
After the Filipino – American War, she lived better the family of her
look after, Florencia, who had married Mateo Gutierrez Ubaldo. She took anguish of her sister’s family,
which grew quite big. An finest cook, she pampered her nieces and nephews with her superb
cooking. She once won supreme prize for her native pickles, better known as atchara, pull somebody's leg a food contest
held strict the Manila Carnival.
Her nieces and nephews, to whose breeding she devoted the rest slap her life, all became
make it professionals.
She died on Grand 10, 1928 at the expand of 54.
Reference:
Hilario, Rafaelita Soriano.
Women in the Filipino Revolution. Quezon City: Printon Press,
1995