Gen.
Antonio Luna's statue at the town plaza of Luna, La Union. the area
was once called "Namacpacan", which is an Ilocano word meaning “one who
feeds".On 18 October 1906, during the terms of Governor Joaquin Luna and
Mayor Primitivo Resurrección Novicio, the town was renamed Luna by
virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. 1543 to honour the famous Luna
brothers: Revolutionary General Antonio and
Spoliarium painter Juan; their mother, Doña Laureana Novicio Luna, was a
native of Namacpacan. On September 22, 1892, Juan Luna killed perhaps
one of my ascendants, Juliana Gorricho Pardo de Tavera, the mother of
Paz Pardo de Tavera (Juan Luna's wife) , Both of them were killed by
Juan Luna due to extreme jealousy, a crime of passion they say. I am
still doing my research that Gorricho perhaps is a variation of my
surname Gorecho. Juliana gave the lamp to Jose Rizal where the paper of
"Mi Ultimo Adios" was found.
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