Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the women's chapter of the Katipunan. She married Andres Bonifacio, the supremo of the Katipunan, and played a major role in the Philippine Revolution.

GREGORIA DE JESUS

Gregoria de Jesus, at age 18 in March 1893, married Andres Bonifacio at the Catholic Church of Binondo. A week later, they were married again in the presence of the Katipuneros, who did not approve of their marriage in a Catholic Church. On the evening of the same day, the women's chapter of the Katipunan was formed, and she was appointed its vice-president and the custodian of the Katipunan documents.

In August 1896, the Katipunan was exposed. Following an internal conflict within the Katipunan her husband was executed. Gregoria was able to escape capture. She left to the Pasig mountains and it was there that she met Julio Nakpil, a commander of the Katipunan troops in Northern Philippines and were married in December 1898.

After the end of the Philippine Revolution and after peace was restored in the Philippines, Gregoria lived with her husband and eight children. Gregoria de Jesus died in 1943 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

15 May 1875

to 15 March 1943