Gregorio Aglipay
1st Obispo Maximo and Co-founder of the Philippine Independent Church
Feast: 5 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay Cruz; Filipino: Gregorio Labayan Aglipay Cruz; pronounced uhg-LEE-pahy; May 5, 1860 – September 1, 1940) was a Filipino former Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War who became the first head and leader of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), the first-ever wholly Filipino-led independent Christian Church in the Philippines in the form of a nationalist church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q981953 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gregorio Aglipay (CC BY-SA)
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