Angelica Lopez Rizal
(Rizal's niece; fiscal)
Marina Dizon
(secretary)
Gregoria de Jesus
(vice president)
- Risked her life by keeping Katipunan documents in her person at a time when the Spanish authorities were watching the movements of the members.
The Katipunera's duties:
The Prominent Women Members of the Katipunan
- To help the male members in their work of propagating the ideas and ideal of the Society.
- To make the police authorities believe that no Katipunan meeting was being held in a house.
- The women engaged in dancing and singing in full view of the people on the street. While the Katipuneras were doing this, the male members were holding a meeting in a room behind the sala, where the women were singing and dancing. In this way, the authorities were not able to detect the meetings of the Katipunan in places designated by Bonifacio.
- Andres Bonifacio - suggested that women be taken in as members of the Katipunan - he decided that only the wife, sister, daughter of a Katipunero, and a few selected women could be eligible for membership in order to minimize the danger of exposing the Society to women who could not be relied upon
- The women members must keep the secrets of the Katipunan.
The Women of the Katipunan
Josefa Rizal
(president)