that thing called RAGSAK: Gregorio Aglipay

An afternoon visit to another Ilocano great leader! (",)

Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayan (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay; 5 May 1860 – 1 September 1940) was a Roman Catholic priest who became the first Filipino Supreme Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, a Christian Protestant church in the form of catholic tradition in the country.
Known for inciting patriotic rebellion among the Filipino clergy, he was also a political activist who became acquainted with Isabelo de los Reyes, who would start a Protestant church named after Aglipay in 1902.
Aglipay was previously excommunicated by Archbishop of Manila Bernardino Norzaleda y Villa on May 1899, upon the expressed permission of Pope Leo XIII. Aglipay later joined the Freemason Order in May 1918. Aglipay later married Pilar Jamias y Ver from Sarrat, Ilocos Norte in 1939 and then died one year later. Followers of Aglipay through the Philippine Independent Church colloquially sometimes refer to their membership as Aglipayans.

Born in Batac, Ilocos Norte, Aglipay was an orphan who grew up in the tobacco fields in the last volatile decades of the Spanish occupation of the Philippines. He bore deep grievances against the colonial government, stemming from abuses within the agricultural system and the radical ecclesiastical reforms he championed. Arrested at fourteen for not meeting his tobacco quota, he later moved to Manila to study law under the private tutelage of Julian Carpio.
After two years of study under Carpio, Aglipay continued his studies at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and at the University of Santo Tomas. After obtaining his degree, he then entered the seminary in Ilocos Sur in 1883 and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood seven years later. He began a career as an assistant priest in various parishes around Luzon. Despite being a Catholic priest, Aglipay, like other Filipino revolutionaries, joined the Freemasons.

Aglipay ran for the presidency of the Commonwealth of the Philippines along with the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas Norberto Nabong in a joined Republican-Communist Party ticket in 1935, but lost to Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña of the Nacionalista Party. He married D. Pilar Jamias y Ver in 1939 (the new church permits married clergy), but Aglipay died the following year on 1 September 1940. (source: wikipedia)