[1] The "Pagsisiyam ng Birhen sa Balintawak" novena was based on a dream that freed Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Gregoria de Jesus, and other Katipuneros from the Spanish Guardia Civil's grasp.

When the dreamer awoke, he described his experience to his companions, stating that the mother and child were dressed like Filipinos but had the faces of Europeans and he narrated the message from the Blessed Virgin Mary which they took as a serious warning.

Shortly, the group learned that Spanish soldiers had raided the Diario de Manila and found incriminating evidence that led to the discovery of the Katipunan.

Rizal, Mabini, Bonifacio, and other great Filipino professors, whose contemporary sapient teachings will make up the best national Gospel, serve as the People's spokesmen, prophets, and evangelists in the Katipunero movement".

Because they are a part of Philippine history and a reflection of the past, historians Reynaldo Ileto and Francis Gealogo have written essays on the Virgin of Balintawak and Infant Jesus wielding a bolo arguing that the image should be more well recognized and Filipinized until it becomes unmistakably, like the Roman Catholic version of Our Lady of Barangay.