By Joelyn G. Baluyut
BACOLOR, Pampanga, Oct 10 (PIA) -- Bacolor celebrated on
Monday its 250th founding anniversary with the unveiling of a
monument dedicated in memory of a Spanish official that transferred the
nation's capital to the town.
"Simon de Anda y Salazar was the Lieutenant Governor
of the Spanish colony who moved the seat of government from Manila to
Bacolor on October 1762," Holy Angel University-Center for
Kapampangan Studies Director Robby Tantingco said.
Anda was likewise instrumental in rallying Kapampangans
to form a resistance movement against the British when it attempted
to overthrow the Spaniards.
“This undertaking is for us to take a view from our past
and actually learn from it. He noted that one needed to discover and
even study our history and origin, for this is where we came from,”
Mayor Jose Maria
Hizon said in a statement.
“Kapampangans have their right to commemorate their share
during the resistance to the British Invasion of 1762. This is not a
diplomatic observance but a sort of reminiscing their glorious past,
though colonial in nature,” historian Ian Alfonso said.
“In the end, this is for public awareness. We should
emphasize the Kapampangans’ role in defending the archipelago against
another foreign opportunist and invader in the 18th century, the
British,” Alfonso added. (CLJD/JGB-PIA3)
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