Location: McKinley Street cor. National Highway, Bacolor, Pampanga
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 2012
Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)
Marker text:
JUAN CRISOSTOMO SOTO (CRISSOT)
(1867–1918)
DISTINGUISHED PAMPANGO POET, DRAMATIST AND NEWSPAPERMAN. BORN IN BACOLOR, PAMPANGA, 27 JANUARY 1867. THE SON OF SANTIAGO SOTO AND MARCIANA CABALLA. LEARNED FIRST LETTERS FROM A TOWN TUTOR CIRILO FERNANDEZ; PURSUED HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER A NOTED TEACHER VICENTE QUIRINO; WROTE NUMEROUS LYRICAL POEMS, HISTORICAL DRAMAS, HUMOROUS PLAYS, FIERY EDITORIALS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS; TRANSLATED INTO PAMPANGO THE SPANISH VERSION OF ROMEO AND JULIET AND OLD EUROPEAN PLAYS LIKE THE LOVERS OF TERUEL FAUST AND NERO AND THE GLADIATORS; AUTHOR OF LYDIA, FIRST NOVEL IN PAMPANGO, IN COLLABORATION WITH GALURA. TRANSLATED RIZAL’S NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO. JOINED THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION, 1896 AND FIGURED IN SEVERAL BATTLES AGAINST THE AMERICAN FORCES, 1898. DIED IN MANILA, 12 JUNE 1918. BURIED IN BACOLOR, 14 JULY 1918.
