National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Jagna Martyrs

NHCP Photo Collection, 2021

Location: Brgy. Lonoy, Jagna, Bohol

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1958

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

JAGNA MARTYRS

SITE OF A BLOODY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN FILIPINOS AND AMERICANS IN WHICH 406 DIE-HARD REVOLUTIONISTS LED BY CAPITAN GOYO (GREGORIO) CASEÑAS, PERISHED ON EASTER SUNDAY, 1901. THE INTREPID BAND DUG INTO GRASSY TRENCHES INTENDING TO AMBUSH THE AMERICANS, BUT THE TREACHERY OF FRANCISCO (ISKO) ACALA, WHO REVEALED THE PLAN TO THE AMERICANS, RESULTED INSTEAD IN THE WHOLESALE DEATH OF CAPITAN GOYO AND HIS MEN. THE AMERICANS ENTERED JAGNA AND BURNED THE WHOLE TOWN, SPARING ONLY THE CHURCH, THE CONVENT AND A FEW HOUSES.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Jagna Martyrs

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