Andres Bonifacio was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary. He worked as a warehouseman (bodeguero) of Fressel y Cia, a German-owned cement, brick and tile company on Calle Nueva, Binondo. He also made a living as a walking cane maker, a calligrapher and an clerk with Fleming & Co, a British trading company. He was made a Mason in Taliba Lodge No. 165 in 1892, and carried the name“Sinukuan”. As a member of Liga Filipina, he was called “Sandakan”.

He was one of the founders and later the supreme leader of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.

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