Kahel Press Bayani Biographies: Gregoria de Jesus

Bayani Biographies: Gregoria de Jesus

Description

Gregoria de Jesus is popularly known as the wife of Andres Bonifacio. She worked as a custodian to arms and documents of the Katipunan. But, who was she before she married Andres? What else happened during the 1896 Revolution? What did she do after the Revolution?

Gregoria de Jesus is popularly known as the wife of Andres Bonifacio. She worked as a custodian to arms and documents of the Katipunan. But, who was she before she married Andres? What else happened during the 1896 Revolution? What did she do after the Revolution? Gregoria de Jesus was more than the Lakanbini of the Katipunan who fought for her country. Oriang, as she was fondly called, fought for love all throughout her life. Learn more about this bayani who fought courageously and lived life whole-heartedly.

Author: Natasha Kintanar

ISBN: 978-971-625-397-9

Genre: Children’s Book (Non-fiction - History)

Published: 2018

Language: English

Age Recommendation: Ages 8+

Pages: 96 pages

Dimensions: 135 x 180 mm

Author's Bio

Natasha Kintanar is a graduate of BA History from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. From the same university, she also graduated with a Master of Arts in Archaeology. She was a high school teacher for history and literature for 3 years and then moved on to working in both the civil society sector and the private sector. She co-founded an NGO with her colleagues, called Tuklas Pilipinas Society,  which aims to spread heritage literacy in the Philippines through alternative education. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Archaeological Heritage at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.

Foreword

I am happy to write this brief word in the hopes that readers get to know Gregoria de Jesus, and let her life inspire them. As I read through the book, it helped me recollect the stories about Gregoria passed on to us by my mother, Caridad, her youngest daughter.

This compressed biography of our history’s favorite heroine, Gregoria de Jesus, is wonderfully written by Natasha Kintanar. Natasha, history and literature teacher, a co-founder of Tuklas Pilipinas, a group that focuses on spreading heritage literacy through alternative education, appropriately writes this story for all ages.  

She chronicles in story-form the life and times, the people and places that formed Gregoria de Jesus to become the Lakanbini ng Katipunan, a respectful attribute yet a powerful tribute to a fragile-looking but steely individual. Because as you read this story, remember that it was nation-building at its infancy, the period of revolution in the 1890s which was tumultuous, dangerous, and as the story unravels, we find Gregoria as an actual participant.

This book had been a long time coming.

Thank you, Natasha, for producing this book!

Maria Paz Nakpil Santos-Viola

President, Bahay Nakpil-Bautista Foundation Inc.

Quiapo, Manila

July 24, 2018

Recognition

-Shortlisted for the National Children’s Book Awards 2021