Don León Apacíble (October 25, 1861 – 1901) was a Filipino lawyer, judge, propagandist, and revolutionary.

Biography

He met national hero

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while attending

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. He boarded with Rizal and his brother, Galicano, who also became one of the political figures of the revolution. Leon’s mother asked Rizal to be her son’s advisor and guide. Like Rizal, Leon excelled in school and later studied law at the University of Sto. Thomas. Leon earned his licentiate in jurisprudence at only 23 years old. He practiced law in Batangas where he also found Masonry. After, he became a judge of the Court of First Instance of Batangas City. In 1890, his house in Taal became one of the meeting places of the resistance leaders. In 1892, he was deported to Lepanto, now called the Bontoc Province of in the Cordilleras. He was released from exile after the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato. When he returned to Batangas, he joined General

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’s forces and became his right-hand man. In 1898, Apacible led his own force of soldiers against Spain in capturing Batangas City. That year, he was appointed as the Finance Officer of Batangas by President

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. In 1901, Leon Apacible was mysteriously lost at sea. His only son, Leon Jr., married Consolacion Noble and their only daughter, Corazon Apacible Cañisa, became mayor of Taal in 1975.

Collections

* A '' kalesa'' owned by the family of León Apacible, a member of the commission that drafted the Malolos Constitution displayed in the

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, Quezon City, Philippines. Kalesa_of_Leon_Apacible

References

19th-century Filipino lawyers Filipino revolutionaries 1861 births 1901 deaths People from the Spanish East Indies {{Philippines-law-bio-stub