page_title: Marcela Agoncillo
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Marcela Agoncillo / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Upload Wizard photos -- (general description of landmarkds, town, church) -Historical Park and Laurel Park - (man-made parks at the Provincial Capitol Complex in Barangay Kumintang Ibaba - with a Multi-Purpose Center used as basketball court, volleyball court and dormitory, for a seminar and meeting venues; the sculpture work entitled "Diwa ng Batangeuno" done in bronze/steel by Ed Castrillo portrays the vitues of the Batanguenos such as nobility, industriousness, beauty and wisdom[1]) - Monuments, Busts of - Maria Orosa[2] Maria Orosa e Ylagan; Claro M. Recto[3]; Dr. Baldomero Roxas [4]; Feliciano Leviste[5]; Dr. Deogracias V. Villadolid - Profiles of Filipino Fisheries Scientists - University of the Philippines Los Baños Limnological Research Station[6]; Jose Diokno[7] - at the - Batangas [8] Provincial Capitol [9] Coordinates: 13°45'55"N 121°3'50"E Batangas City (the largest and capital city of the Province of Batangas, the "Industrial Port City of Calabarzon", 2010 census, the city has a population of 305,607 people).
context_page_description: Doña Marcela Mariño Agoncillo was Filipina renowned as the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines, gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippine Flag."
  Marcela Coronel Mariño was the daughter of Don Francisco Diokno Mariño and Doña Eugenia Coronel Mariño, a rich family in her hometown of Taal, Batangas. She finished her studies at Santa Catalina College, Marcela acquired her learning in music and feminine crafts. At the age of 30, Marcela Coronel Mariño married Felipe Encarnacion Agoncillo, a Filipino lawyer, and a jurist, and gave birth to six children. Her marriage led an important role in Philippine history. When her husband was exiled in Hong Kong during the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution, Marcela Mariño Agoncillo and the rest of the family joined him and temporarily resided there to avoid the anti-Filipino hostilities of the occupying Spain. While in Hong Kong, General Emilio Aguinaldo requested her to sew the flag that would represent the Republic of the Philippines. Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo, with her eldest daughter Lorenza and a friend Delfina Herbosa Natividad, niece of Dr.
context_section_description: [[File:Marcela Agoncillo Old Elementary School.jpg
  |thumb|Old Marcela Agoncillo School Building]]
  Several commemorative figures were created in remembrance of Agoncillo's historic family. On November 27, 1955, a marker was erected by the National Historical Institute of the Philippines and a museum was established in Taal, Batangas in accordance with her last wish and was named Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo Museum and Monument. The museum is Mariño-Agoncillo ancestral house. The house-turned-museum permanently exhibits flags and a diorama depicting the sewing of the first flag. A bronze statue of her holding the flag was erected outside the house in its garden. In Hong Kong, a historical marker was created by the Hong Kong Antiquities Council at Morrison Hill Park to commemorate the site where the first Philippine flag was sewn. However, the place where the Agoncillos resided, the location of the Hong Kong Junta, and other locations of historical importance to Filipinos remain unmarked.
  Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo's legacy is remembered through the visual arts as well. In 1996, Filipino National Artist Napoleon Abueva created the concrete and marble sculpture Three Women Weaving the Filipino Flag at the UP Diliman to commemorate Agoncillo and the other two women who assisted her in their important task.Moreover, The Marcela Agoncillo Elementary School is made to honor her.  Renowned Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo painted the historical sewing and is nationally known as The Making of the Philippine flag.
caption: Marcela Mariño Agoncillo (Batangas Provincial Capitol)
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