Visayan Joan of Arc
TERESA
MAGBANUA
Prominent Filipino
Life & Career
Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris
1868 - 1947
She came from a large and wealthy family
Don Juan Magbanua, a judge
Doña Alejandra Ferraris, daughter of a captain
Second child
dynamic personality, restless, and unafraid of
any man
Life & Career
Filipina schoolteacher
her students knew her as a disciplinarian
After 4 years of teaching in Pototan, she moved
north to Sara, Iloilo
1898 - married Alejandro Balderas, a wealthy
businessman who owned large plots of land
Skills: horseback riding and marksmanship
Philippine Revolution
1896
Battle of Barrio
Yating in Pilar,
Capiz
- Visayan Joan of Arc
- Nanay / Nay Isa
October 1898
War entered Iloilo:
she
was
given
command
of
a
battalion of bolo
troops
Labanang mga
Burol Sapong
Liberation of Iloilo
City
Contributions
Became a member
of the Katipunan
revolutionaries
December 1898
Philippine-American
War
February 1899
Battle of Iloilo City
ended
March 1899
in
Battle of Balantang, Jaro
Contributions
The battle
defeat
Later life & Death
Referred to by the honorific "general" in many
texts
World War II
She
continued
to
fight
for
the
country's
independence until the Japanese occupation.
August 1947
She never remarried and her marriage with
Balderas produced no children. There were no
announcments made of her death at the time.
Spain, United States, Japan
One of the few who fought for the Philippines
against all of its main aggressors
Streets named
and Iloilo City
after
Magbanua
in
Pototan
Gawad Teresa Magbanua Award
Teresa Magbanua Award
For women's and children's rights
October 13
Teresa Magbanua Day
first observed in 2006
in
Pototan,
Prominent
Filipino
Tiomico, Victoria Ellex M.
BS Psychology 2A
References
https://cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2017/6/7/5-filipinoheroines.html
https://bayaningfilipino.blogspot.com/2017/10/talambuhayni-teresa-magbanua.html
https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/magbanuateresa/