On June 1, 1649, AGUSTIN SUMUROY, a local hero from the town of Palapag, killed father Miguel Ponce Barberan, signaling the start of the Filipinos’ insurrection against the Spaniards, known as the Sumuroy Revolt.
The beheading of the local priest was said to be Sumuroy’s protest against the oppressive rule of the Spaniards, spurred by the order of Governor General Diego Fajardo for Ibabaonons and Visayans to forcefully work in a shipbuilding facility in Cavite away from their families.
Sumuroy’s act of bravery has prompted a bigger-scale and subsequent uprising of Filipinos in the other parts of the country, spreading as far as Camarines (Bicol) in the north, Cebu and Leyte (Visayas) in the east, Lanao and Camiguin (Mindanao) in the south.
The rebels took on Sumuroy’s example of killing priests, burning churches and taking over villages, as a form of defiance against what they believed was an unjust and oppressive rule.
The Sumuroy revolt lasted for more than a year, when this Ibabaonon hero was eventually slain at the behest of the Spanish for his head.
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