We know very little about Tandang Sora. Accounts in elementary books tell of Melchora Aquino, her baptismal name, as having fed and nursed Katipuneros who were fleeing from and/or wounded in ...

After Rizal’s birth sesquicentennial, it’s now Tandang Sora’s bicentennial. But while we know so much about Rizal, including voluminous materials he wrote, there’s very little information on Tandang ...

The Tandang Sora Shrine on Banlat Road, Tandang Sora, Quezon City. MANILA—On August 29, 1896, the 84-year-old revolutionary heroine “Tandang Sora,” or Melchora Aquino in real life ...

MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino yesterday called on Filipinos to emulate Tandang Sora – dubbed as the “Grand Woman of the Revolution” – whose advanced age did not stop her from ...

Tandang Sora opened her ample bodega to more than a thousand Katipuneros, emptying “all of her storehouse of 100 cavans, and ...

The Quezon City council has declared 2012 as Tandang Sora Year, to be marked with a series of projects celebrating her life, including a documentary, a traveling photo exhibit and the Gawad ...

The Quezon City government is currently working on the establishment of a women’s museum that will feature the life works of Melchora Aquino, a Filipino revolutionary heroine known as “Tandang Sora.” ...

Of the many praises heaped posthumously on the iconic Tandang Sora, here’s one more compliment that could surely make heads turn. The woman dubbed as the Mother of the Philippine Revolution was ...

The Tandang Sora Women's Museum opened in Quezon City last February, on the death anniversary of the late Filipina revolutionary, Melchora Aquino, also known as Tandang Sora. It has the hopes of ...

Words from Filipino hero/shero/heroine Tandang Sora: “Kung ako ay may siyam na buhay, patuloy ko pa rin itong iaalay sa bayan. (If I had nine lives, I would continue to offer these for my country.)” ...