Lorenza agoncillo biography
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Lorenza Agoncillo
One of the 3 girls who made the Philippine flag. and the daughter of Marcela Agoncillo
Lorenza Mariño Agoncillo (September 5, 1890 – September 2, 1972) was the daughter of Don Felipe Agoncillo and Marcela Agoncillo who became the daughter of the principle seamstress of the first and official Philippine flag.[1]
Early life
Born on September 5, 1890, in Taal, Batangas, she was the eldest daughter of Felipe Agoncillo, a lawyer who later became a diplomat in the first Philippine Republic, and Marcela Marino, who belonged to one of the distinguished families of Taal.
Lorenza agoncillo biography
She was one of the three women who made the first Philippine flag. As the story goes, around March or April 1898, Aguinaldo requested Marcela Agoncillo to make the Philippine flag according to a design, inspired by the Cuban flag, given by the revolutionary committee.
Lorenza, then seven years old, helped her mother in sewing the flag together with Rizal's niece, Delfina Herbosa Nativi