Rita Pérez de Moreno

María Rita de la Trinidad Pérez Jiménez (23 May 1779 – 27 August 1861), commonly known as Doña Rita Pérez de Moreno, was an insurgent of the Mexican War of Independence, along with her husband Pedro Moreno.

Early life Pérez de Moreno was born on the hacienda of Cañada del Cura, in the jurisdiction of San Juan de los Lagos, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico), to Don José María Pérez and his second wife, Doña Rafaela Jiménez. Of Spanish descent,

Later years and death Due to her participation in the insurgency, Pérez de Moreno was made a prisoner for several years until Viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca granted her freedom. In 2010 it was announced that the remains of Rita Pérez Jiménez would be transferred to the Rotunda of the Jalisco Illustrious. The act had been considered in 1955 by Agustín Yáñez, governor of Jalisco, but after an investigation it was determined that the remains of the heroine had become part of the common ossuary of the San Juan de los Lagos cemetery in 1927, so it could not be done. Finally, during the seventh session of the Culture Commission of the Jalisco State Congress, Deputy Rocío Corona Nakamura commented that the State Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed that the remains exhumed from the tomb of Rita Pérez de Moreno are legitimate. On 27 August 2010, the remains of the heroine arrived at the Rotunda of Illustrious Jaliscienses after a ceremony with a funeral procession that began at the Government Palace together with the unveiling of her statue created by the sculptor Rubén Orozco Loza.

In the House of Culture of the city of Lagos de Moreno, on 5 May 2010, the presentation of the book "Doña Rita, heroine and worthy of Jalisco" was held, written by Rogelio López Espinoza with a circulation of 2 1,500 copies that were distributed in different parts of the state of Jalisco.