Eternamente vive quien muere por la patria. El Centenario de los Mártires, Tunja, Colombia (1916)

Abstract

In Tunja’s celebration of centennial decade of national independence (1910-
1919), its stands out the centenary of Heroes-martyrs in 1916, characters of the
first republic, executed in the city in the reconquest (1816). With this reason,
civil and ecclesiastical authorities organized a patriotic party coordinated by
the Academy of History, that included parades, openair mass, literary contests,
industry expos and the exhumation of the martyrs’ bodies and their move to
the cathedral. The speeches, the corporeity of the martyrs, the exaltation of
the values like progress and modernity were the fundamental feature of this
centenary, linked to the Hispanic tradition of the city