philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines The Burgos Manifiesto: The Authentic Text and Its Genuine Author John N. Schumacher, S.J. Philippine Studies vol. 54, no. 2 (2006): 153–304 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net The Burgos Manifiesto: The Authentic Text and Its Genuine Author John N. Schumacher, S.J. The struggle of the Filipino clergy against the attempts taken to deprive them of any parish of significance in favor of thefriar orders reached its culmination in the decree of 1861, leaving them almost none in the Ma- nila archdiocese. Fr. Pedro Pelhez led the struggle in Manila and Madrid until his death in the earthquake of 1863. Rumors circulated in Manila that he had planned a conspiracy to overthrow Spanish rule that very day. When the Madrid newspaper, La Verdad, repeated that calumny, the Filipino clergy issued a manifesto defending their rights and vindi- cating Pelaez's name. Republished in Hong Kong in 1889, the manifesto has been attributed to Fr.