Eternamente vive quien muere por la patria. El Centenario de los Mártires, Tunja, Colombia (1916)

In Tunja’s celebration of centennial decade of national independence (1910-1919), its stands out the centenary of Heroes-martyrs in 1916, characters of thefirst republic, executed in the city in the reconquest (1816). With this reason,civil and ecclesiastical authorities organized a patriotic party...

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Authors: Martínez Martín, Abel Fernando, Otálora Cascante, Andrés Ricardo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2018
Country:México
Institution:INSTITUTO PANAMERICANO DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA
Repository:Revista de Historia de América
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasipgh.org:article/39
Online Access:https://revistasipgh.org/index.php/rehiam/article/view/39
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Centenario de los héroes-mártires
fiesta patria
construcción de la Nación
Tunja
Colombia
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Summary:In Tunja’s celebration of centennial decade of national independence (1910-1919), its stands out the centenary of Heroes-martyrs in 1916, characters of thefirst republic, executed in the city in the reconquest (1816). With this reason,civil and ecclesiastical authorities organized a patriotic party coordinated bythe Academy of History, that included parades, openair mass, literary contests,industry expos and the exhumation of the martyrs’ bodies and their move tothe cathedral. The speeches, the corporeity of the martyrs, the exaltation ofthe values like progress and modernity were the fundamental feature of thiscentenary, linked to the Hispanic tradition of the city