AURORA ARAGON-QUEZON

                        “Doña Aurora Aragon Quezon was a lady, in the finest sense of that word. She did not need trappings to prove this.                                           You could see it in her eyes. You could hear it in her voice. You could feel it, in her very presence. She was a soft                                                 spoken, motherly, gentle woman — all heart, all love.

 

                        “She was “Ninang” (godmother) to countless poor children whom she always remembered, with gifts and love letters, at                                   the proper times. She was known, universally, for three things: her devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, her love for the poor, and the strong support she gave to her husband.” (Fr. James Reuter SJ, 2005)

“The last time I saw her (Mrs. Quezon) before I left for Bataan, she was sitting serenely in the midst of the chatter and

clatter of the hospital tunnel, reading the life of Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary. She smiled when I said goodbye and

told me to pray that God should keep and bless us all. I was very deeply moved because I suddenly remembered my mo-

ther in Manila; it was just exactly what she would have told me and my mind gave a start of recognition, made a brief

but tender identification between my mother and this pious lady quietly reading the life of a saint.”

(Leon Ma. Guerrero, 1953)

 

“Mrs. Quezon was always in the forefront of religious and charitable activities in the Philippines. Cultured and gracious, she gave to Filipino womanhood the constant example of leadership through her fervent, practical, living Catholicity…Her prayerful influence was a powerful factor in leading the late President Manuel Quezon to make his public retraction of masonry in April 1931, one of the greatest manifestations of moral courage by any political figure of our generation.” (Rev. Patrick O’Connor, 1949)

 

                           “(Mrs. Quezon) walked through life doing good, who was light unto the blind, protecting unto the weak, the mother of the                               poor, and in a sense the mother of us all…to keep us together, to heal broken friendships, to bind up political wounds, to                                 pour the oil of compassion upon the social ulcers of our age, to cherish and guard the sanctities of the home. Behind the                                 man we all admired, stood the lady of charity.” (Fr. Pacifico Ortiz SJ,1949)

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“If those of us today revere her, the future generations of Filipinos will exalt her as one of the greatest benefactors of our

people in her own right, for her noble life and loving deeds will forever be stimulating source for inspiration and emula-

tion.” (Trinidad Legarda, 1949)