Later Life
Aglipay ran for the presidency of the Commonwealth of the Philippines along with the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas Norberto Nabong in a joined Republican-Communist Party ticket in 1935, but lost to Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmena of the Nacionalista Party. He married D. Pilar Jamias y Ver in 1939 (the new church permits married clergy), but Aglipay died the following year on 1 September 1940.
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