The two famous Filipino tornatra heroes

A tornatra is someone who was a mixed Filipino Indio, Chinese, and Spanish during the Spanish Era.

This term was often used in the Spanish Philippines but barely known to many nowadays.

Jose Rizal


Jose Rizal’s mother was a Spanish mestiza and his great grandfather is a Fujianese Chinese who migrated to the Philippines hundreds of year ago so therefore he was a tornatra.

Rizal fought for the rights of the Filipinos and his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo exposed the oppression and injustice of the colonists and it also awakended the patriotism of many people.

He was exiled in Dapitan and was incarcerated in Bagumbayan later and then executed on December 30, 1896 through a firing squad.

Andres Bonifacio


Andres Bonifacio was a grandson of a Spanish soldier and a Filipino-Chinese woman.

He was born in Tondo, Manila and was orphaned in early age alongside with his siblings.

He was a fan of Jose Rizal and he founded the Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK) on July of 1892.

He and his brother Procopio was executed in Mt. Buntis, Maragondon, Cavite on May 10, 1987 because of a criminal accusation that was possibly a mere concoction to indict and demolish him, if that was not really true.

Rizal and Bonifacio fought the Spanish regime in the Philippines through different ways though they were part Spanish.

Rizal fought through writing. He wanted Spain to grant some rights to Filipinos.

While Bonifacio fought using weapons and wanted full independence from Spain.

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