One of Basilio's sisters, Juana, was the original owner of the only Spanish reproduction of the image of La Divina Pastora in the Philippines, which arrived in the country through the Galleon Trade.

The image is the object of an annual pilgrimage to the National Shrine of La Virgen Divina Pastora in Gapan, and is one of the patrons of the parish (the others being the Three Kings) since the 1800s, though it remained privately held in the home of the Valmontes until 1986.

[2] Rizal would make a reference to Gapan's secondary patron saint, La Divina Pastora, in the chapter "A Cochero's Christmas Eve" of his novel El Filibusterismo[3]

When Valmonte learned of the detention of several local Katipunan members including Mamerto Natividad and Marcus Ventus, he conferred with the capitan municipal of Cabiao Mariano Llanera to do something for their colleagues.

According to a version attributed to historian Leopoldo Serrano, the Filipinos, headed by Valmonte and Llanera, organized themselves on September 2, 1896, at Sitio Pulu, about 5 kilometers from Factoria, choosing 500 men for the initial attack, and employing the Cabiao Brass Band to disguise the military movement as a peaceful march meant to gain the release of those already arrested by the Spanish.

There, the secretly armed groups from Cabiao and Gapan coalesced and unleashed a ferocious assault upon the Spaniards, who defended themselves in the Casa Tribunal and the Arsenal, as well as in other government buildings and in the houses of Spanish residents.

His account points to the fact that the short interval between Valmonte's capture, detention and execution puts into question the veracity of the three-day fighting during the "First Cry of Nueva Ecija.

Unknown to Valmonte and Llanera, a son of the detained Marcos Ventus, Manuel, had sneaked under the stairway of the garrison, armed with a gun and intent on avenging the arrest and imprisonment of his father.

The result of the death of Machorro was described by Lolo Joaquin as juez de cuchillo, literally 'justice by the knife.’ On September 3, Valmonte, who did not go into hiding thinking he had no reason to do so, was apprehended in Gapan along with his deputy mayor Epifanio Ramos by Spanish soldiers and Filipino volunteers.

80, which also counted among its lodge brethren fellow revolutionists Mamerto Natividad Sr., Domingo Cecilio, Marcos Ventus, Epifanio Ramos, Cipriano Sarile, and Teodorico Lagonera.