The Reverend Father Don Bartolome del Carmen y Gador, born 1857 in Moalboal, Cebu, the second child of Don Pio Quinto del Carmen, a former gobernadorcillo of the town, and Petrona Gador, a daughter of a cabeza de barangay. Educated in the seminary in Cebu City, he was later assigned as a coadjutor of Argao, Cebu, where he met Basilia Lucero. They had two children, Teopista and Maria Lucero, though only Teopista lived to adulthood.
Bartolome del Carmen became cura parroco in 1898, on the eve of the revolution, and remained in this capacity until his death in 1914.
