RIZAL Chapters 1-4
RIZAL Chapters 1-4
RIZAL Chapters 1-4
JOSE RIZAL
• physician(ophthalmic surgeon)
• Poet
• Dramatist
• Essayist
• Novelist
• Historian
• Architect
• Painter
• Sculptor
• Educator
• Linguist
• Musician
• Naturalist
• Ethnologist
• Surveyor
• Engineer
• Farmer
• Magician
• Businessman
• Economist
• Geographer
• Cartographer
• Bibliophile
• Philologist
• Grammarian
• Folklorist
• Philosopher
• Translator
• Inventor
• Magician
• Humorist
• Satirist
• Polemicist
• Sportsman
• Traveller
• Prophet
• MARTYR and HERO
Rizal’s Ancestry
Father side
Domingo Lamco (Domingo Mercado) and Ines dela Rosa
Francisco Mercado and Cirila Bernacha
Juan Mercado and Cirila Alejandro
FRANCISCO MERCADO
Mother side
LAKANDULA
Eugenio Ursua and Benigna
Regina and Manuel de Quintos
Brigida and Lorenzo Alberto Alonso
THEODORA ALONSO
Rizal’s Parents
Francisco and Theodora were married on June 28, 1848 then settled on
Calamba where they engaged in farming and business.
They reared a big family.
11 CHILDREN (2 boys and 9 girls)
RIZAL CHILDREN
1. SATURNINA – oldest; “Neneng”; married Manuel Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batanga
2. PACIANO – confidant of Rizal; joined the revolution; retired tohis farm in
Los Banos; had 2 children with his mistress Severina Decena. Rizal regarded
him as the “most noble of Filipinos”
3. Narcisa – Sisa; married Antonio Lopez, a school teacher of Morong
4. OLIMPIA – Ypia; married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila
5. LUCIA – married Mariano Herbosa, nephew of Fr. Casanas. Herbosa died of
cholera and denied a Christian burial
6. MARIA – Biang; married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Binan, Laguna
7. JOSE – Pepe; lived with Josephine Bracken during his exile in Dapitan. Had
a son “Francisco” who died few hours after birth
8. 8. CONCEPCION – Concha; died of sickness at the age of 3. Her death was
Rizal’s first sorrow
9. 9. JOSEFA – Panggoy; died an old maid at the age of 80.
10. 10. TRINIDAD – Trining; died also an old maid in 1951 at the age of 83.
11. 11. SOLEDAD – youngest; Choleng; married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba
12. keyword: SPNOLM-JCJTS
CALAMBA
cradle of the national hero
named after a big native jar
hacienda town owned by the Dominican Order
south: Mt. Makiling
east: Laguna de bay
north: mountain shrine of Antipolo
1876: Rizal was 15 years old and a student in Ateneo de Manila
- wrote a poem “Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo” (In Memory of My Town)
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
Rizal
– Frail, sickly and undersized child
- His father built a nipa cottage in the garden
- An old woman was employed as aya
- His mother taught him the catholic prayers
- Called as “Manong Jose”
- Used to visit Fr. Leoncio, the parish priest
June 6, 1868 (pilgrimage to Antipolo)
- First trip of Jose across Laguna de bay and first pilgrimage to Antipolo
- After praying at the shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo, Jose and his father
went to Manila to visit his sister Saturnina
ARTISTIC TALENTS
At the age of 5, he began to make sketches with his pencil and mould in
clay and wax
He made a religious banner during the town fiesta
He loved to ride on a spirited ponyand take long walks with his dog “Usman”
First poem of Jose Rizal
- His mother, Theodora, encouraged him to write poems
- At the age of 8, he wrote a poem in the native language entitled
“Sa aking mga Kababata” (To My Fellow Children)
- The poem revealed his earliest nationalistic sentiments
Tutors
1. Maestro Celestino
2. Maestro Lucas Padua
3. Leon Monroy (former classmate of Rizal’s father)
In Binan, Laguna
- Rizal was accompanied by his brother Paciano
- He lodged to his aunt’s house
- The night when they arrived, Rizal was already homesick. He went
sightseeing with his cousin, Leandro
Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
- Teacher of Jose Rizal in Binan
First School Brawl
- Jose met the school bully, Pedro, and they wrestled in the classroom
- After that, Andres Salandanan challenged him to an arm-wrestling match
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Question: Was Rizal quarrelsome in nature?
END OF SCHOOLING
Saturnina sent a letter to Rizal informing the latter that a steamer, Talim,
would take him to Calamba (1870)
Arturo Camps, a friend of his father, took care of him
Ateneo Municipal
- college under the supervision of the Spanish Jesuits
- bitter rival of the Dominican-owned San Juan de Letran
- formerly known as EscuelaPia (Charity School), a school for poor boys in
Manila which was established by the city gov’t in 1817
- known today as Ateneo de Manila
Positions:
EMPEROR
TRIBUNE
DECURION
CENTURION
STANDARD-BEARER
Rizal went back to Manila and this time he boarded inside Intramuros owned by
an old widow, Dona Pepay.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas – Rizal’s first favorite novel
He was impressed by Edmond Dantes heroism and adventures
Travels in the Philippines by Feodor Jagor – Rizal was impressed in the book
because of a) Jagor’s observations of the defects of Spanish colonization and
b) Jagor’s prophecy that Spain would lose the Philippines and that America
would come to succeed her as colonizer.