Alimon, Cindy Mae C02

Bedayo, Ryan Paul

Mahilum, Aionah
Mande, Mary Releen
Natiag, Erica Bliss

1. Read through annotation that Rizal made on Morga’s chapter 8, from the start of chapter until pages
295 in the English version.
A Sucesos de la Islas Filipinas (Historical Events of the Philippine Islands) was written by Dr. Antonio de
Morga, annotated by Jose Rizal with a prologue by Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, was published by Rizal
himself in Paris in January 1890  (Historical Events of the Philippine Islands, preface, pg. V). it actually
contains 8 chapters, where in the first seven entails rich accounts of expeditions and policies of the
various Spanish administrators. However, the 8th chapter focused on pre-Hispanic Filipinos’ way of life,
customs, and values. The last chapter also would be material to Rizal’s effort to reconnect the 19th
century Filipinos to their past.
Sucesos as an account will serve to be proof that before the Philippines was conquered, the country’s
culture was more refined in many ways. One of the few signs of Rizal’s annotation of Morga is that it
meant to raise people’s consciousness of the past that they buried from memory. It enables us to see
the sublimeness and glory of their race that is being snatched away by colonial contact. Also, feel a
certain pride about themselves, and their country. For modern-day Filipinos, his works should be more
important in impelling them to learn the history of their country. Since this account was written three
centuries apart from Rizal, there are unavoidable misconceptions stated. But, somehow through Rizal’s
annotation, it was projected with supporting endnotes for a better way of understanding in readers’
behalf. As Rizal’s message to Filipino written on the Sucesos, “The necessity of first making known to you
the past, in order that you may be able to judge better the present and measure the road traverse
during three centuries.”

GROUPWORK #1 in JRIZAL