IGLPI Masons joined the city of Malolos, Bulacan in the celebration of the 116th anniversary of the inauguration of the First Philippine Republic on January 23, 2015. Grandmaster Ruben Romanes, led grand officers and member lodges including Barasoain Lodge Number 12 of Malolos in the commemoration event. General Emilio Aguinaldo, first president of the republic, Apolinario Mabini head of his cabinet, other members of the cabinet and almost half of the delegates to the Malolos congress that drafted the constitution were members of various lodges of the Gran Oriente Espanol in the Philippines. The Philippine republic, the first in Asia was inaugurated in 1899, less than a year after the declaration independence in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898.
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