On a day like today, but in 1794, one of the female figures highlighted for her bravery in the feat of National Independence of 1844 and a martyr for the country was born. It is about Maria Trinidad Sanchez.
Today marks the 232nd anniversary of his birth.
This Tuesday, from the early hours of the morning, various personalities and patriotic organizations, including the Permanent Commission of National Days, gathered at the National Pantheon, where her remains rest, to pay tribute to the woman considered “mother of the country.”
The legacy of María Trinidad Sánchez
When commemorating the 232nd anniversary of the birth of María Trinidad Sánchez, the president of the Permanent Commission of National Ephemerides, Juan Pablo Uribe, highlighted the legacy that the woman represents in moral, ethical, ideological, spiritual and political terms in the construction of the Dominican national identity.
“She synthesized in an unbreakable way, with a hardness of steel, love, defense and attachment to the highest principles of the country that had been founded in institutional terms on February 27, 1844. María Trinidad Sánchez is loyalty, fidelity, it is dignity of honor, the patriot proudly expressed.
At the same time, he stated that such has been his exemplary legacy for the Dominican people that the National Congress established law number 126-21, which consecrates June 16 of each year as National Day of María Trinidad Sánchez. This is because she represents an example of civility, explained the patriot leader.
“María Trinidad Sánchez, is a heroine and martyr, she is an imperishable moral, ethical and spiritual force that present and future generations must imitate in pursuit of a Dominican Republic with true existential greatness, and if we also want, continue to maintain and defend our national sovereignty, territorial integrity, self-determination and identity that will always be in the Dominican Republic, regardless of obstacles or threats. Due to her non-negotiable political and patriotic principles, she became the object of brutal persecution by Pedro Santana, being arrested and, under his order, shot on February 27, 1845, when the independence that had founded the Dominican Republic had barely turned one year old,” urged Uribe.
Finally, Uribe recalled that “on the way to the scaffold to seal his despicable sentence as a steel patriot and devout Christian, he loudly proclaimed: ‘My God, let your will be done in me and the Republic be saved.’ Maria Trinidad Sanchez“Dominican families have a permanent source of fresh water to drink in the values of civility that make a society strong.”
