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The municipality of Lopez Jaena in Misamis Occidental is named after him. An Order of DeMolay Chapter, a youth fraternal group for young men originating in freemasonry, was founded around 1965 in Jaro, and named Graciano Lopez-Jaena Chapter because Lopez Jaena was the first and foremost Freemason from Jaro.
La Solidaridad (lit. The Solidarity) was an organization created in Spain on December 13, 1888. Composed of Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and students attending Europe's universities, the organization aimed to increase Spanish awareness of the needs of its colony, the Philippines, and to propagate a closer relationship between the Philippines and Spain.
López Jaena was born in the Jaro district in now Iloilo City and spent most of his life there, before sailing to Spain in 1879. While in Jaro, he wrote Fray Botod a short story critical of the current Spanish colonial government.
He was a contributor to La Solidaridad and one of the members of the Propaganda Movement in Spain along with Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez Jaena; He was part of Aguinaldo's Hong Kong Junta, the exiled Revolutionary Government of the Philippines
The most prominent ilustrados were Graciano López Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, Antonio Luna and José Rizal, the Philippine national hero.Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere ("Touch Me Not") and El Filibusterismo ("The Subversive") "exposed to the world the injustices imposed on Filipinos under the Spanish colonial regime".
Graciano López Jaena (1856–1896) – journalist, orator, and revolutionary from Iloilo, well known for his written works in La Solidaridad and the satirical story Fray Botod. Born in Jaro, Iloilo City. Angel Magahum Sr. (1867–1931) – writer, editor and composer. Composed the classic Iloilo ang Banwa Ko, the unofficial song of Iloilo.
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The renaming of Jaro Plaza to "Graciano Lopez Jaena Park" is a tribute to the notable Jaro-born journalist, reformist, and founder of La Solidaridad, Graciano Lopez Jaena. It also commemorates the friendship between Lopez Jaena and General Martin Delgado, who were both students at the nearby San Vicente de Ferrer Seminary and were known to ...