| On the early morning of
May 10, 1897, a group of soldiers led by
General Lazaro Makapagal brought Andres and Procopio from the
Maragondon jail. This was the order of General Mariano Noriel,
president of the council of war that tried the Bonifacio brothers.
Makapagal had been handed a sealed letter, with strict orders to
read It after reaching Mt. Nagpatong in the Maragondon mountains.
Only four soldiers were selected by the general to accompany him
on this mission.
When the soldiers and their
two prisoners reached Mt. Nagpatong,
Gen. Lazaro Makapagal
The Bonifacio brothers
were killed on Monday, May 10, 1897. Andres
was only 34
Some twenty years passed.
On March 17, 1918, Lazaro Makapagal came back
He was accompanied by a group of government officials, two former Cavite generals, and former
soldiers of the Philippine Revolution. They went to a lonely spot on a sugarcane field in the
Maragondon mountains to find Andres Bonifacioís grave. The place had changed a lot. An old
and loyal servant of Bonifacio showed them the way and identified his masterís remains.
Bonifacioís bones were placed
in an urn and kept in the Legislative Building
(now the National
Museum). Bonifacioís papers and personal belongings, including his revolver and bolo, were
also kept here. In February 1945, during the battle to free Manila from the Japanese, the building
and the remains of Andres Bonifacio were destroyed in a fire.