![]() ![]() In so far, therefore, as your complicity in the Cavite mutiny is not clearly proved, as you may or may not have been patriots, and as you may or may not have cherished sentiments for justice and for liberty, I have the right to dedicate my work to you as victims of the evil which I undertake to combat. "The Church, by refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime that has been imputed to you the Government, by surrounding your trials with mystery and shadows, causes the belief that there was some error, committed in fatal moments and all the Philippines, by worshiping your memory and calling you martyrs, in no sense recognizes your culpability. Executed in Bagumbayan Field on the 28th of February, 1872. ![]() ![]() "To the memory of the priests, Don Mariano Gomez (85 years old), Don José Burgos (30 years old), and Don Jacinto Zamora (35 years old). ![]()
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