Nazaria Lagos
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Florence Nightingale of Panay
Nazaria Lagos | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 28, 1851 |
| Died | January 27, 1945 (aged 93) |
| Known for | Philippine Revolution Florence Nightingale of Panay |
| Spouse | Segundo Lagos |
| Children | Caridad Lagos Felicita Lagos Ramon Lagos Pomposa Lagos Filomena Lagos Discoro Lagos Jose Lagos |
Nazaria Lagos[1] (August 28, 1851 – January 27, 1945[2]) was a nurse in the Revolution in the Philippine–American War. She was known as the Florence Nightingale of Panay, as she provided medical treatment to combatants and civilians.[3]
Marriage
Nazaria was born on August 28, 1851, in Barrio Burongan (now Jaguimit) Dueñas, Iloilo. She was the only child of Juan de la Cruz Lagos and Saturnina Labrilloso. She studied under Gregorio Tingson, who taught her the ofrecemiento, tocsin, cent, planar, and grammatical castellan.
At 12 years old, Nazaria married Segundo Lagos, son of Bartolome Lagos, founder of the town of Dueñas. Her husband was serving as chief sacristan at the town church when he was appointed municipal president by Gen. Martin Delgado on October 27, 1898. When the military governor ordered Fr. Lorenzo Suarez to organize the first Red Cross in Iloilo in 1897, she was appointed as Red Cross president of Dueñas, with the priest giving her blanket authority to name its other officers.
Life in the barrio
Despite their connections with both church and government, Nazaria and her husband supported the revolutionary movement by working with, and giving resources to, the Visayan rebels. Their house in barrio Burongan was allegedly used for the meetings of the revolutionary leaders.[citation needed] In one of those meetings, Nazaria was appointed chief and director of the proposed rebel hospital in Jaguimit including the food supply and equipment depot established in the secluded Lagos hacienda, adjoining Jaguimit. She reportedly asked her father to help build the hospital, as well as provide bamboo beds, chairs, tables, shelves, and cabinets, and in soliciting clothing materials and beddings from her town mates. She also collected medicinal plants, such as alibhon, adgaw, buyo, luy-a, beta, amargoso, and guava, since there were no readily available medicines and drugs at the time, and mobilized traditional healers.
