THIS month, we celebrated three major anniversaries which have connections with the birth of the Nation: the 127th anniversary of José Rizal’s founding of the La Liga Filipina (July 3, 1892) and Andres Bonifacio’s establishment of the Katipunan revolutionary movement (July 7, 1892); and the 150th birth anniversary of Pio Valenzuela, one of the Katipunan leaders who linked Rizal and the Katipunan (July 11, 1869).