Filomena Gómez de Cova

Filomena Gómez de Cova (1800 - 1893) was a Dominican militant who participated in the Dominican War of Independence. Filomena, born into a long-standing capital family, was a woman with broader horizons than other women of her time. This woman brought from Venezuela, the plant called Malabar Jasmine, whose white flower served as a Duartian symbol in the hair of Dominican women and in the buttonhole on the chest of the heroes in the days of the Trinitarios. “Filorios” was the derogatory nickname they called the Trinitarios, which is why they called it “the flower of phylloria.”

Family

She was born in 1800, during the difficult years of the French regime of the Dominican Republic. daughter of Don Joaquín Gómez Márquez and Mrs. Juana Carlota Grateró.

She married twice, first to Francisco Marcano, on April 29, 1820, who died the following year in a shipwreck off the coast of Haiti when he was returning from Cuba, where he had gone to receive his law degree. The second marriage was with Lucas de la Cova, on March 23, 1829, by proxy, since he was in Saint Thomas, where he waited for his wife to continue his trip to Europe and then settle in Venezuela from where they traveled around the world. Don Lucas died on August 7, 1854.

Revolutionary Labor

This woman is credited with the audacity of bringing the filoria with her from Caracas. This flower served as a distinctive symbol for the young supporters of the independence cause, who proudly displayed it in their hair, in a buttonhole of their dresses or on their chests. Likewise, the heroes wore this white flower on their hearts during the memorable days of the Trinitaria.

Death

He died in the city of Santo Domingo on March 9, 1893. She was 93 years old.

Acknowledgements

A street in Santo Domingo, Filomena Gómez de Cova Street, was named in her honor.

See also

• Ana Valverde
• Concepción Bona