THE National Historical Commission of the Philippines will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of revolutionary leader Emilio Jacinto on Monday, Dec. 15, at various sites across the country.
Wreaths will be offered at his tomb at Himlayang Pilipino, Quezon City attended by Senator Loren Legarda, National Youth Commission chairman Joseph Francisco Ortega, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte, and Jacinto descendant Maria Melissa Galauran Lacerna-Dona.
The program will also include a reading of Jacinto’s Kartilya ng Katipunan by a student and an excerpt from the hit Tanghalang Pilipino musical, “Pingkian: Isang Musikal,”
Parallel commemorative rites will also be held at Jacinto’s monuments at the Bonifacio Shrine (Kartilya ng Katipunan Park) in Manila, Pinaglabanan Memorial Shrine in San Juan City, the Battle of Maimpis Site and the town plaza in Magdalena, Laguna, and his first burial place in Santa Cruz, Laguna.
