Bayani ba to? Forum. Wednesday, August 17, 2016, 1:30pm. APC Auditorium

We watch and listen to a forum of Bayani ba to? It was about the movie of Hermano Puli, Puli’s story is basically a love story, his love for country, and his love for God The film celebrates the heroism of the young Filipinos of the past who shed their blood for the freedoms we all enjoy today. Like Rizal and Bonifacio after him, Apolinario de la Cruz, better known as Hermano Puli, was a young man who dared to question inequities of the Spanish era. He was only 18 when he founded the Cofradia de San Jose, a religious brotherhood that spread like wildfire among his fellow native Filipinos throughout Southern Tagalog. He was either just 27 or 28 when he was condemned as a heretic and executed by the colonial government. Portraying a hero at 26, Abrenica is just the right age to portray the most challenging role of his young career. I consider Hermano Puli as an eye-opener. He was the first to fight for what he believed in. He’s a hero for me.