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Lopez-Jaena
The committee on tourism and culture of the Sangguniang Panglungsod chaired by Councilor Merci Drilon-Garcia will study the proposal of Mayor Jerry Treñas to declare December 12-18 every year as Dr. Graciano Lopez-Jaena Week.
Lopez-Jaena is a great Ilonggo propagandist, poet and gifted writer. He has edited the La Solidaridad which flamed revolution. Lopez-Jaena along with Dr. Jose Rizal and Marcelo H. Del Pilar were considered the great triumvirate of the Propaganda Movement.
Lopez-Jaena was born in Jaro on December 18, 1856. His parents were Placido Lopez and Maria Jacoba Jaena. He abhorred the abuses and greediness of the friars in his first written work, the Fray Botod (Big-Bellied Friar) which he wrote in 1874 when he was only 18 years old.
He also earned the title as 'The Demosthenes of Philippines.' Lopez-Jaena has also written in different news letters in Europe fighting for Filipinos' rights. On January 20,1896, Lopez-Jaena died of tuberculosis in a hospital run by the Sisters of Charity in Barcelona. The following day, he was buried in unmarked grave at the Cementerio del Sud-Oeste of Barcelona. His body was never brought back to the Philippines.
In Iloilo City, a school in Lapaz, several streets and a small park in Jaro plaza were already named after Lopez-Jaena.