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    Graciano Lopez Jaena was a Filipino propagandist and orator born in 1856 in Iloilo, Philippines. He studied theology but desired to become a physician. At age 18, he wrote the satirical story "Fray Botod" depicting a fat and lecherous priest, angering Spanish authorities. To evade arrest, he transferred to Negros where he wrote publications advocating for liberal reforms in the Philippines. He later joined Jose Rizal and Marcelo del Pilar in Madrid to launch the propaganda newspaper La Solidaridad in 1889, using it to advocate for the Philippines from 1889 to 1895. Jaena persevered as an advocate for the Philippines until his death from tuberculosis in 1896

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    Graciano Lopez Jaena was a Filipino propagandist and orator born in 1856 in Iloilo, Philippines. He studied theology but desired to become a physician. At age 18, he wrote the satirical story "Fray Botod" depicting a fat and lecherous priest, angering Spanish authorities. To evade arrest, he transferred to Negros where he wrote publications advocating for liberal reforms in the Philippines. He later joined Jose Rizal and Marcelo del Pilar in Madrid to launch the propaganda newspaper La Solidaridad in 1889, using it to advocate for the Philippines from 1889 to 1895. Jaena persevered as an advocate for the Philippines until his death from tuberculosis in 1896

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    Graciano Lopez Jaena was a Filipino propagandist and orator born in 1856 in Iloilo, Philippines. He studied theology but desired to become a physician. At age 18, he wrote the satirical story "Fray Botod" depicting a fat and lecherous priest, angering Spanish authorities. To evade arrest, he transferred to Negros where he wrote publications advocating for liberal reforms in the Philippines. He later joined Jose Rizal and Marcelo del Pilar in Madrid to launch the propaganda newspaper La Solidaridad in 1889, using it to advocate for the Philippines from 1889 to 1895. Jaena persevered as an advocate for the Philippines until his death from tuberculosis in 1896

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    Graciano Lopez Jaena was a Filipino propagandist and orator born in 1856 in Iloilo, Philippines. He studied theology but desired to become a physician. At age 18, he wrote the satirical story "Fray Botod" depicting a fat and lecherous priest, angering Spanish authorities. To evade arrest, he transferred to Negros where he wrote publications advocating for liberal reforms in the Philippines. He later joined Jose Rizal and Marcelo del Pilar in Madrid to launch the propaganda newspaper La Solidaridad in 1889, using it to advocate for the Philippines from 1889 to 1895. Jaena persevered as an advocate for the Philippines until his death from tuberculosis in 1896

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    of 18

    Great Orator and Propagandist & Prince of Filipino Orators

    He was born in Jaro, Iloilo on December 18, 1856 Placido Lopez and Maria Jacob Jaena

    Colegio Provincial and in the Seminario de San

    Vicente Ferrer in Jaro in 1869 to study Theology.


    had no desire of becoming a priest; he wanted to

    become a physician

    He returned to Iloilo and practiced medicine in

    outlying communities with such knowledge as he had.


    . At the age of 18 he had the audacity to write the story

    " Fray Botod


    It was not a published copy but it enrage the Spanish

    authorities

    To evade arrest, Graciano transferred to Silay, Negros

    Occidental where he wrote La Oceania Espaola that was published in Manila.


    Madrid where he became known for his speeches and

    writings in defense of the Filipinos.

    He contributed write-ups advocating liberal measures for the Philippines to several newspapers like the following: El Liberal, El Progreso, Bandera Social de Madrid, La Publicidad, El Pueblo Soberano, and El Deluvio of Barcelona, Espaa en Filipinas, Revista del Circulo Hispano Filipino, and Revista Economica de la Camara de Comercio de Espaa en Londres.

    Gracianos propaganda became a professional entity

    after Jose Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar joined him.


    In 1889, they launched the propaganda newspaper La

    Solidaridad with Graciano Lopez Jaena as editor.


    His membership in the freemasonry in 1882 under the

    symbolic name Bolivar

    On February 15, 1889, the first issue of the La

    Solidaridad was published through the financial support of Pablo Rianzares Bautista
    He started using his mothers surname Jaena after the

    Lopez to distinguish him as Filipino and different from the Lopezes in Spain as this was a popular surname.

    In 1891, he returned to the Philippines under the name

    Diego Laura in order to solicit more support from other Filipinos.


    When Spanish authorities discovered his presence in

    Manila, the Filipino patriots smuggled him to the boat Don Juan that brought him to Hong Kong
    On July 22,1891, Jaena sailed back to Barcelona and

    founded the newspaper El Latigo Nacional.

    He persevered with the difficulty of keeping the

    Propaganda alive until his Tuberculosis took him on January 20, 1896 in Barcelona at the age 0f 40

    Fray - 'friar'

    'botod' is an ilonggo word for either a big stomach or gas in the

    stomach.

    He wrote at the age of 18 Circulated at 1874 satirical story "Fray Botod" which depicted a fat and lecherous priest

    Although it was not published a copy circulated in the region but the Friars could not prove that Lpez Jaena was the author.

    It introduces the stereotypical Spanish friar who

    uses religion as a tool for oppressing others in order to satiate his appetite for food, money and women.

    told through a dialog between a Filipino and his liberal

    Spanish friend

    The sketches in Fray Botod , illustrate the vile character of the friar through various situations:
    having immoral relationships with young girls called

    canding-canding threatening and punishing some students from the University of Manila, neglecting his duties as a parish priest in favor of gambling

    An all-Filipino organization established by the illustrados of Barcelona on 13 December 1888, To create Filipino representation in the Spanish Cortes. It was also the name of the official publication of the organization.

    Galicano Apacible was the first president of the La Solidaridad. Graciano Lpez-Jaena as vice-president, Mariano Ponce as treasurer Jos Rizal, who was then in London, as Honorary President.

    February 5 1889, through Jaena, the La Solidaridad newspaper was created. It served as the principal organ of the Propaganda Movement for over five years, its last issue was released on 15 November 1895.

    LA HIJA DEL FRAILE EVERYTING IS HAMBUG

    SA MGA PILIPINO
    AMOR A ESPAA O A LAS JOVENES DE

    MALOLOS

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