Location: Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1939
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
BIRTHPLACE OF APOLINARIO MABINI
AT THIS PLACE, BARRIO TALAGA, TANAUAN, BATANGAS, APOLINARIO MABINI, AUTHOR OF VARIOUS IMPORTANT DECREES AND POLITICAL DOCUMENTS, PRIME MINISTER OF THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC, AND PATRIOT, WAS BORN JULY 23, 1864. HIS PARENTS WERE INOCENCIO MABINI AND DIONISIA MARANAN. HAVING ATTENDED THE SCHOOL OF REV. VALERIO MALABANAN IN TANAUAN AND COLEGIO DE SAN JUAN DE LETRAN IN MANILA, MABINI WAS GRADUATED IN LAW FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS IN 1894, IN THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF HIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY WHEN HIS SERVICES WERE NEEDED MOST. HE WAS STRUCK BY PARALYSIS IN JANUARY 1896. IN THE FOLLOWING OCTOBER HE WAS MADE PRISONER BY THE SPANIARDS, AND AGAIN BY THE AMERICANS WHO DEPORTED HIM TO GUAM ON JANUARY 15, 1901. MABINI RETURNED TO THE PHILIPPINES ON FEBRUARY 26, 1903, AND DIED IN MANILA ON MAY 13, 1903. GOVERNOR GENERAL TAFT CHARACTERIZED HIM AS THE MOST PROMINENT IRRECONCILABLE AMONG FILIPINOS.
