{"id":259514,"date":"2020-06-26T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259514"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:19:07","slug":"palace-mourns-death-of-ex-senator-ramon-revilla-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/26\/palace-mourns-death-of-ex-senator-ramon-revilla-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace mourns death of ex-senator Ramon Revilla Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday offered sympathies following the passing of movie icon and former senator Ramon Revilla Sr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palace expresses its deep condolences to the Revilla family for the loss of its patriarch, former senator Ramon Revilla, at age 93,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla Jr. first announced the death of his 93-year-old father in a video posted on Facebook on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v7.0\" nonce=\"igoW9PJy\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bongrevillajrph\/photos\/a.263724410939279\/614494415862275\/?type=3&amp;theater\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bongrevillajrph\/photos\/a.263724410939279\/614494415862275\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>The wake of our father, Senator Ramon B. Revilla, Sr., will be at the Revilla compound &#8211; 305 Aguinaldo Highway, Bacoor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bongrevillajrph\/\">Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr.<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bongrevillajrph\/photos\/a.263724410939279\/614494415862275\/?type=3\">Friday, June 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement, the younger Revilla said his father succumbed to heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Revilla patriarch finished his bachelor\u2019s degree in commerce at the Far Eastern University.<\/p>\n<p>Revilla Sr. was a senior intelligence officer at the Customs Bureau from 1965 to 1972 before he became an award-winning actor.<\/p>\n<p>He entered politics in 1992 after securing a seat at the Senate. His two terms ended in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Roque recognized Revilla Sr., popularly known as \u201cHari ng Agimat\u201d, as a \u201cpillar of the movie industry\u201d before the latter entered politics.<\/p>\n<p>As an elected senator, Revilla Sr. was recognized as the \u201cFather of the Public Works Act for his authorship of Republic Act 8150 or the Public Works and Highways Infrastructure Program Act of 1995,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe share the grief of the Revilla clan and as tributes pour to honor the life and legacy of this respected movie icon and public servant, we pray that the Almighty grant Mr. Revilla eternal repose,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar also offered condolences to the family of the late senator.<\/p>\n<p>Andanar said the public would remember Revilla Sr. for his contributions to the Philippine movie industry.<\/p>\n<p>He also honored the former senator for his exemplary public service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis contributions will be remembered by people as among those who paved the way for movie and public works industries\u2019 continued growth and development,\u201d Andanar said. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers go out to the whole family. And we pray for the eternal repose of the soul of their patriarch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday offered sympathies following the passing of movie icon and former senator Ramon Revilla Sr. \u201cThe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259517,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259514\/revisions\/259517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}