Resumen

MARTINEZ MARTIN, Abel Fernando  y  OTALORA CASCANTE, Andrés Ricardo. Eternally live who dies for the nation.The centenary of heroes-martyrs, Tunja - Colombia (1916). Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2018, n.154, pp.81-104.  Epub 28-Feb-2022. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.154.2018.39.

In Tunja’s celebration of centennial decade of national independence (1910-1919), its stands out the centenary of Heroes-martyrs in 1916, characters of the first republic, executed in the city in the reconquest (1816). With this reason, civil and ecclesiastical authorities organized a patriotic party coordinated by the Academy of History, that included parades, open-air mass, literary contests, industry expos and the exhumation of the martyrs’ bodies and their move to the cathedral. The speeches, the corporeity of the martyrs, the exaltation of the values ​​like progress and modernity were the fundamental feature of this centenary, linked to the Hispanic tradition of the city.

Palabras llave : Centenary of heroes-martyrs; patriotic party; Nation building; Tunja; Colombia.