



By the time of the death of his mother, she requested Lope to marry Simeona Salazar. During Philippine Revolution of 1896, Santos joined revolutionaries. Santos was sent to Escuela Normal Superior de Maestros (Higher Normal School for Teachers) for education and later finished schooling at Colegio Filipino. His father was imprisoned during Philippine Revolution because Spanish authorities found copies of José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and Ang Kalayaan in his possession. Santos was born in Pasig, Province of Manila (now a part of Metro Manila) as Lope Santos y Canseco to Ladislao Santos, a native of Pasig, and Victorina Canseco, a native of San Mateo, on September 25, 1879. He is best known for his 1906 socialist novel, Banaag at Sikat and to his contributions for the development of Filipino grammar and Tagalog orthography. Santos (born Lope Santos y Canseco, Septem– May 1, 1963) was a Filipino Tagalog-language writer and former senator of the Philippines.
