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M. VELEZ STREET
From the Cebu Provincial Capitol, the newly opened M. Velez Street moves westward to Banawa passing through Guadalupe River, A. Abellana, Emilio Osmeña, and Calamba road.
The street was named after Marcial Velez, the oldest child of Jacinto Velez and Josefa Climaco. Being known at the time as an intense nationalist and a patriot he was intensely despised by the Spaniards. To escape from the wrath of the Spaniards he fled from Cebu.
With the American occupation of Cebu on February 22, 1899, he went to the mountains of Sudlon and organized a guerilla unit. He and his men fought a brave but losing fight. In January 1901, his parents and two sisters were exiled to Hongkong.
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