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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).

But there was more to him.

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Hermenegildo Flores was killed as a prisoner of war at the Casa real in Boac. Because of his writings and his role as the leader of the revolutionary struggle in Marinduque during the Filipino-Spanish war he suffered extreme cruelty.

His corpse was not given the last rites of the Church, rites that normally constituted a mar