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was one of six (the others being Mercedes Tiongson, Basilia and Teresa
Tantoco, Alberta Uitangcoy, and Rufina Reyes) who remained active in political and social work from 1880s to the 1920s.

Parallels her father's political activities

Younger sister of Elisea; Second daughter and third surviving childe of Jose T. Reyes and Catalina T. Tantoco.

The daughter of mestizos-sangleyes Espiridion Tengco
Reyes and his second wife, Alberta Leuterio Santos, her paternal
grandparents were Pedro Reyes and Maria Tengco, while her
maternal grandparents were Pio Santos and Isidora Leuterio.

was born on June 12, 1876 in Pariancillo,
Malolos and the daughter of Espiridion de los Reyes by his
third and last wife, Feliciana T. San Agustin. Her paternal
grandparents were Pedro de los Reyes and Maria Tengco,
while her maternal grandparents were Yndalicio San Agustin
and Isabel Tiongson.

Of all the Women of Malolos, ___ was the last to pass
away at the age of 98 outliving Elisea Reyes who died the same
year.

Oral tradition has it that of all the women of Malolos
who studied under Guadalupe Reyes at the school in
the house of Rufina Reyes in Pariancillo, _____ was the brightest, standing 5’1 , with a
thin, aristocratic face and morena features. Aurea
was alert and sprightly, even to her old age.

stands out for her strength of will, her fearless leadership, and the
consistency and strength of her commitment for the liberation of
women and motherland.

there is no word that
characterizes ____ more accurately given all its
positive and negative implications.

When this person asked to describe her aunt Teresa, Leonor T. Reyes
promptly and fondly replied: ___, meaning she
was a giving person.

For the 20 years of her life, _____, lived the life
of what pioneer feminist Concepcion Felix-Calderon then
called a mujer de la casa, or in Tagalog, babaing
pambahay, an ideal wife and mother whose life revolved
around the needs of her husband and her children.

fondly called Taci, was the second child and first daughter of
Fabian M. Tiongson and Norberta T. Camaclang.

is known as the philanthropist who willed
the majority of her family land for the establishment and
maintenance of a hospital to be called the Hospital of
Agapita Tiongson and Sister, which would minister to the
needs of her family tenants, their children, and their
children for free.

She was not only efficient, she was also istrikta (the word that her niece-ward and godchild Mercedes Carlos- Sebastian used to describe her).

She went to Manila to study
in a colegio, but what is certain is that she knew how to speak and read
Spanish. Later in life, she read newspaper like La Vanguardia and
entertained government officials with her husband in the Tiongson
house, using the Spanish language

was exposed to the political
struggle against the friar curate, in which her own relatives in Pariancillo
were very much involved.Paz

Of the twenty Women of Malolos, six (Elisea and Rufina Reyes,
Basilia and Teresa Tantoco, Mercedes Tiongson, Alberta
Uitangcoy) remained active until the 1910s. Of these six, three
(Basilia Tantoco, Mercedes Tiongson, and ____)
were outstanding because of their perseverance, leadership, and
self-sacrifice.

one of the six ladies in the group of the
Women of Malolos who did not sign her family name.

Of all the Women of Malolos, only two can be
documented as personal acquaintances of Marcelo H. Del
Pilar the sister ____ and Paz Tiongson who were
mentioned by name in the letters to and from Marcelo H.
del Pilar (who was then in Barcelona): ___, or Ylia
Tiongson and her sister Paz.

___ was one of the six ladies who signed the letter of the
Women of Malolos to Governor-General Valeriano
Weyler only with her first name. De los Santos,
however, identifies her as one of the nine Tiongsons that
belonged to the group.

____ was one of six Women of Malolos who did not
sign her family name. But she was positively
identified as one of the nine Tiongsons who signed
the letter by Epifanio de los Santos, who, in the early
part of the nineteenth century, settled in Malolos
after he married a Torralba from there.

One of the Women of Malolos who has not been
properly acknowledged by historians is ____, or ___
not only because she signed the letter of Gov. Gen.
Weyler only with her first name, but more important,
because historians have wrongly identified the Ylia
who bravely confronted Fray Agustin Fernandez with
Basilia Tiongson, instead of with Cecilia.

WHO SAID THIS?

“No longer does the Filipina
stand with her head bowed
nor does she spend her time
on her knees, because she
is quickened by hope in the
future; no longer will the
mother contribute to keeping
her daughter in darkness
and bring her up in contempt
and moral annihilation”.

In 1973 she was appointed to the Supreme
Court, the first woman to occupy a seat in the
high court.