page_title: Melchora Aquino
section_title: Involvement in the revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Melchora Aquino / Involvement in the revolution
caption_attribution_description: English: Php 100-peso English series bill (observe)
context_page_description: Melchora Aquino de Ramos was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as "Tandang Sora" because of her age during the Philippine Revolution.
  She was known as the "Grand Woman of the Revolution" and the "Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.
context_section_description: In her native town, Tandang Sora operated a store, which became a refuge for the sick and wounded revolutionaries. She fed, gave medical attention to and encouraged the revolutionaries with motherly advice and prayers.
  Secret meetings of the Katipuneros (revolutionaries) were also held at her house. Thus she earned the names "Woman of Revolution", "Mother of Balintawak", "Mother of the Philippine Revolution", and Tandang Sora (Tandang is derived from the Tagalog word matandâ, which means old). She and her son, Juan Ramon, were present in the Cry of Balintawak and were witnesses to the tearing up of the cedulas.
  When the Spaniards learned about her activities and her knowledge to the whereabouts of the Katipuneros, she was interrogated but she refused to divulge any information. She was then arrested by the guardia civil and was deported to Guam, Marianas Islands, where she and a woman named Segunda Puentes were placed under house arrest in the residence of a Don Justo Dungca.
  After the United States took control of the Philippines in 1898, Tandang Sora, like other exiles, returned to the Philippines until her death on 19 February 1919, at the age of 107. Her remains were then transferred to her own backyard (now known as Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Park, Quezon City).
caption: Melchora Aquino, as depicted on the English Series 100 pesos banknote.
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