Marcela Agoncillo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Seamstress
Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1859
Place of Birth: Taal, Luzon, Philippines
Date of Death: 30-May-1946
Profession: dressmaker
Nationality: Philippines
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Marcela Agoncillo
- DoƱa Marcela MariƱo Agoncillo (MariƱo y Coronel; June 24, 1859 ā May 30, 1946) was Filipina renowned as the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines, gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippine Flag." Marcela Coronel MariƱo was the daughter of Don Francisco Diokno MariƱo and DoƱa Eugenia Coronel MariƱo, a rich family in her hometown of Taal, Batangas.
- She finished her studies at Santa Catalina College, Marcela acquired her learning in music and feminine crafts.
- At the age of 30, Marcela Coronel MariƱo married Felipe Encarnacion Agoncillo, a Filipino lawyer, and a jurist, and gave birth to six children.
- Her marriage led an important role in Philippine history.
- When her husband was exiled in Hong Kong during the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution, Marcela MariƱo Agoncillo and the rest of the family joined him and temporarily resided there to avoid the anti-Filipino hostilities of the occupying Spain.
- While in Hong Kong, General Emilio Aguinaldo requested her to sew the flag that would represent the Republic of the Philippines.
- DoƱa Marcela MariƱo de Agoncillo, with her eldest daughter Lorenza and a friend Delfina Herbosa Natividad, niece of Dr.
- Jose Rizal, manually sewed the flag in accordance with General Emilio Aguinaldo's design which later became the official flag of the Republic of the Philippines. While the flag itself is the perpetual legacy of DoƱa Marcela MariƱo de Agoncillo, she is also commemorated through museums and monuments: like the marker in Hong Kong (where her family temporarily sojourned), at her ancestral home in Taal, Batangas which has been turned into a museum, in paintings by notable painters as well as through other visual arts.
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