Manuela is the feminine of Manuel — from Hebrew *Immanuel* ("God with us"). **Manuela Sáenz (1797-1856)** was the **Ecuadorian revolutionary** — partner of Simón Bolívar and **his savior on the night of 25 September 1828**, when she single-handedly held off would-be assassins to give him time to escape through a window of the presidential palace in Bogotá. **Bolívar called her "la libertadora del libertador" — the Liberator of the Liberator.**
Featured on Venezuelan banknotes.
Manuela reduces to eight — the number of liberator-of-the-liberator.