Pantaleon Villegas was a revolutionary leader in Cebu during the Philippine Revolution against Spain

PANTALEON VILLEGAS

Villegas, was better known as León Kilat. He joined a circus owned by Tagalogs on their way to Manila. The circus happened to be owned by a katipunero. It was there that he was recruited into the secret council of the Katipunan.

During the rebellion against Spain, Kilat led the revolutionaries in Cebu. Kilat and his men began the rebellion in Cebu on 3 April 1898. He was, however, betrayed and murdered on 8 April 1898, stabbed to death by his own aide-de-camp.

27 July 1873

to 8 April 1898