Marinduque: 10 de Octubre, Hermenegildo Flores: Forgotten Hero

Hermenegildo Flores, the forgotten hero from Bulacan. He wrote the poem “Hibik ng Filipinas sa Inang Espana” one that elicited poetic responses from two of our foremost national heroes, Marcelo H. del Pilar with “Sagot ng Espanya sa Hibik ng Filipinas” and the Great Plebeian himself, Andres Bonifacio who wrote “Katapusang Hibik ng Filipinas”, a historic poetic triad. Writings about Flores are to a large extent limited only to that stirring poem he wrote that led to the Bonifacio poem, described as “the climactic moment to the history of Tagalog poetry during the 19th century” (Mabangio).

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