Father Burgos House
| Father Burgos House | |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Vigan, Ilocos Sur |
| Country | Philippines |
| Coordinates | 17°34′32″N 120°23′09″E / 17.57557°N 120.38581°E |
| Completed | 1788 |
The Father Burgos House, built in 1788,[1] is a historic house in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.[2] It was the residence of the Filipino Catholic priest Jose Burgos (1837–1872),[3] a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests into the Catholic hierarchy in the Philippines, which was dominated by Spanish friars in the past.[4] Alongside two other Filipino priests, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, Burgos was arrested on false charges of sedition and incitement of the Cavite mutiny and executed in 1872.[5]
Architecture[edit]
The Father Burgos House is an example of an early bahay-na-bato house architecture that is built smaller and closer to the ground, than the later versions found in Vigan and elsewhere.[6]
Typical of the bahay-na-bato, the wood-framed upper level was where the family lived; it would be reached through a grand wooden staircase rising from the zaguan, a carriageway running from a huge wooden entrance door on the ground floor. The rest of the stone-walled ground floor was used for storage.[7][6]
Museum[edit]
Burgos' house serves as a museum. It has one of the original copies of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere.[8] The house also displays 19th-century paintings by the Ilocano painter Esteban Villanueva of the 1807 Basi Revolt.[7]
Hertiage status[edit]
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a historical marker on the house's façade in 1939.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Teehankee, Pepper (September 7, 2023). "Impressed by Ilocos". The Pepper Mill. Philstar.com. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ "Father Burgos Museum in Vigan". Vigan.ph. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ a b "National Museum of the Philippines – Ilocos". National Museum of the Philippines. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ "José Burgos". rpl.hds.harvard.edu. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ Purnell, Kristofer (December 30, 2023). "The history told in Pepe Diokno's 'GomBurZa'". Philstar.com. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ a b World Heritage City of Vigan, Philippines: Heritage Homeowner's Preservation Manual. Bangkok; Vigan City: UNESCO Bangkok; City Government of Vigan. 2010. ISBN 978-92-9223-320-4. Retrieved January 26, 2024 – via unesdoc.unesco.org.
- ^ a b Villalon, Augusto (July 27, 2014). "From 'bahay-kubo' to 'bahay-na-bato'". Lifestyle.INQ. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ "On Gomburza's 150th martyrdom anniversary, Kuya Kim shares trivia on the heroic priests". GMA News Online. February 21, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
External links[edit]
Media related to Father Burgos House at Wikimedia Commons
