TRACING JOSE

RIZAL’S ROOTS
 DOCTOR – completed his medical course in Spain and was
conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad
Central de Madrid

JOSE – chosen by his mother who was a devotee of Saint Joseph

PROTACIO – from Saint Protacio, the patron saint for June 19,
who was martyred in Milan, Italy

RIZAL – “Ricial” which means the green of young

growth or green fields

MERCADO – adopted by his great greatgrandfather which

in Spanish means market

ALONSO – old surname of his mother

PEPE - In Spanish, the letter “P” is REALONDA – used by his mother from her
pronounced as “peh” giving rise to
godmother’s surname based on the culture by that time
his nickname Pepe
 Dr. José Protacio Rizal
Mercado y Alonso
Realonda
Birthdate: June 19, 1861
Birth Place: Calamba, Laguna
Baptismal date: June 22, 1861
Death Anniversary: December 30, 1896
Pepe’s Family Tree
 Pepe’s Great Paternal ascendant
• Among the earliest known ancestors
of Jose Rizal were Siang-co and Zun-
nio of Fujian, China. Their son Lam-
co migrated to the Philippines in the
late 1600s.
• Lam-co adopted the name
Domingo and married Ines de la
Rosa, the daughter of Agustin Chin-
co and Jacinta Rafaela, a Chinese
mestiza resident of the Parian.
The Family
Tree

Father Side Ancestry

The
Family
Tree

Mother Side Ancestry

Franciso Mercado
Rizal
• Pepe’s father
• “A model of Fathers”
• Studied Latin and Philosophy at
the College of San Jose
Teodora Alonso
Realonda
• Pepe’s mother
• “A loving and prudent
mother”
• Studied at the College of
Santa Rosa
The Rizal Siblings
• SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913)
Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo
of Tanauan,Batangas.
• PACIANO RIZAL (1851-1930)
Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose
College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine
Revolution.
• NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939)
The third child. married Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a teacher and
musician.
The Rizal Siblings
• OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887)
The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from childbirth.
• LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919)
The fifth child. Married Matriano Herbosa.
• MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945)
The sixth child. Married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna.
• JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)
The second son and the seventh child. He was executed by the Spaniards
on December 30,1896.
The Rizal Siblings
• CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865)
The eight child. Died at the age of three.
• JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945)
The ninth child. An epileptic, died a spinster.
• TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951)
The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last of the family to die.
• SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929)
The youngest child married Pantaleon Quintero.
 The Rizal Family: A Good
Middle Class Family
• They belonged to the principalia
• Had a large 2-storey Stone House, a Carjuahe and
a vast private library home of 1,000 and more
books
• Can afford to send their children to Manila
for college
 The Rizal Family: A Good
Middle Class Family
• They had a simple, happy and contented life
• They believe in a maxim:
“Spare the rod and spoil the child”
• Every day, the family prays angelus and rosary
 Rizal’s Family Home
- It is one of the distinguished stone houses in
Calamba during theSpanish times.
- It was a two-storey building, rectangular in
shape, built of adobe stones and hard-woods
and roofed with red tiles.
- During the day, it hummed with the noises of
children at play and the songs of the birds in
the garden; by night, it echoed with the dulcet
notesof family prayers.
- The Rizal family had a simple, contented and
happy life.
Childhood Years in Calamba
- Calamba was a hacienda town which
belonged to Dominican Order, which also
owned all thelands around.
- Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo ( In Memory of
My Town) – a poem about Rizal‘s
beloved town written by Rizal in 1876 when
he was 15 years old and was student in the
Ateneo de Manila.
Childhood Years in Calamba
- The first memory of Rizal,in his infancy,was his
happy days in the family garden when he was
three.
- Another childhood memory was the daily
Angelus prayer. By nightfall, Rizal related, his
mother gathered all the children at the house to
pray the Angelus.