"GOMBURZA is an acronym for Fathers Mariano Gómez, José Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, three Filipino priests who were executed on
February 17, 1872 at Bagumbayan in Manila, Philippines by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite Mutiny.
Their execution (by garrote) left a profound effect on many Filipinos; José Rizal, the national hero, would dedicate his novel El Filibusterismo to their memory".

"The uprising by workers in the Cavite Naval Yard was the pretext needed by the authorities to redress a perceived humiliation from the
principal objective, Father Jose Burgos, who threatened the established order..." ( Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomburza ).