 Lawyer, educator, and legislator, Mariano Marcos was born in Batac, Ilocos Norte on April 21, 1895 to Fabian Marcos and Cresencia Rubio.A farmer, the elder Marcos had served as "gobernadorcillo" and justice of the peace of Batac after the Philippine Revolution, who championed the Ilocano language but at the same time cultivated a scholarship in the Spanish language.A militant follower of Gregorio Aglipay and member of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, he raised his son under the Aglipayan faith.