He was one of those men who led a busy and moderately provided life when fate swept him off his feet and involved him in that struggle which resulted to his gruesome death.
He was happily married to Eugenia "Senyang" Fernández (Arcenia in other accounts) of Kalibo whom he did not have a child after six years of marriage.
[1] One day when all paths led to Mabilo in Kalibo, Aklan where men submitted themselves to blood compact (also known as sandugo or pacto de sangre), Ángelo Fernández went with the others out of curiosity to see what is happening.
They were made to swear allegiance to the creed of the Katipunan by following after a dictated oath, after which the arm was pricked with a pointed blade until it bled.
[2] When Francisco del Castillo entered the poblacion at the head of the ill-equipped troops to seek audience with the authorities under the Spanish yoke on the fateful day of March 17, 1897, Ángelo who was residing in the poblacion was not even informed of the hastily executed move, and so was not able to join.
He was among the first to surrender to the authorities when Monet's amnesty was announced, and he told the truth that he was an officer of the revolutionary army, whereupon he was immediately imprisoned and tied from behind.
All the time that he was pretending to be dead as he lay under a pile of bodies, sticky and stinking with the acrid smell of blood, some of whom had their intestines and brains spelling over him, he could not move because the civil guards were always around.
7806 was made into law setting the 23rd day of March of every year as a special public holiday in the Province of Aklan.