Then there is the beloved Tandang Sora, who is best-known as the mother-figure of the Philippine Revolution and lately, the heroine of Quezon City. The birthday of Tandang Sora, otherwise known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Quezon City Government introduces the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum in Banlat, Quezon City. (Photo Courtesy of Quezon City Government) Women continue to gain ground in different walks of life. In ...

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.)” ...

A historical marker was unveiled Saturday morning at the heroine’s birthplace and tomb on Banlat Road in Tandang Sora as a testament to her bravery and kindness. With the NHCP’s declaration ...

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