Biography of marcela agoncillo

Seamstress of the first flag of the Philippines

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mariño, the second or maternal family name is Coronel, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Agoncillo.

Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo (née Mariño y Coronel; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946)^[1][2][3] was a Filipina who was the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines,^[4] gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippine Flag."

Marcela Coronel Mariño was the daughter of Don Francisco Diokno Mariño and Doña Eugenia Coronel Mariño, a rich family in her hometown of Taal, Batangas.

She finished her studies at Santa Catalina College, Marcela acquired her learning in music and feminine crafts. At the age of 30, Marcela Coronel Mariño married Felipe Encarnacion Agoncillo, a Filipino lawyer, and a jurist, and gave birth to six childre