Felipe Salvador, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Felipe Salvador

Filipino revolutionary

Date of Birth: 26-May-1870

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1912

Profession: revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Felipe Salvador

  • Felipe Salvador (26 May 1870 at Baliuag, Bulacan – 15 April 1912), also known as Apo Ipe or Ápûng Ipê Salvador, was a Filipino revolutionary who founded the Santa Iglesia (Holy Church), a messianic society also known as the Colorum which had the aim of defeating and overthrowing the colonial government of the United States in the Philippines.
  • Salvador joined the Katipunan in 1896 upon the arrival of the Katipuneros from Balintawak in Baliuag, Bulacan.
  • He founded the Santa Iglesia in 1900 after fleeing to the mountains when Gen.
  • Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by American troops.
  • Salvador and his church gained a significant number of followers in the regions of Bulacan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.
  • He was captured by American forces in 1910.
  • He was tried and sentenced to death, being hanged in 1912, two years after his capture.Felipe Salvador and the Santa Iglesia movement are often depicted as part of Filipino history when numerous resistance and millenarian movements broke out across the archipelago, during a period spanning the Filipino struggle for independence culminating in the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against Spanish rule, to the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and its aftermath.

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