COMPLETE NAME: LAL

YEAR AND SECTION: III - Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: February 20, 2022

1. What are the salient provisions of Rizal Law (R.A. 1425)

o AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE CURRICULA OF ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES COURSES ON THE LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS OF JOSE
RIZAL, PARTICULARLY HIS NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO,
AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

2. What are the important issuances relative to the implementation of Rizal Law?
o Important Issuances Relative to the Implementation of Rizal Law Approval of R.A. 1425
on June 12, 1956 Presidential Memorandum Order 247 dated Dec. 26, 1994 – President
Ramos directed the DECS and CHED to immediately and fully implement R.A. 1425.

3. Why is Jose Rizal our National Hero?

o Rizal is our greatest hero because, as a towering figure in the Propaganda Campaign, he
took an “admirable part” in that movement which roughly covered the period from
1882-1896
o Rizal’s writings contributed tremendously to the formation of Filipino nationality
o Rizal becomes the greatest Filipino hero because no Filipino has yet been born who
could equal or surpass Rizal as “a person of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger,
or fortitude in suffering.”
o Rizal is the greatest Filipino hero that ever lived because he is “a man honored after
death by public worship, because of exceptional service to mankind.”

4. Who made Jose Rizal our foremost national hero?

o No single person or groups of persons were responsible for making the Greatest
Malayan the Number One Hero of his people. Rizal himself, his own people, and the
foreigners all together contributed to make him the greatest hero and martyr f his
people. No amount of adulation and canonization by both Filipinos and foreigners could
convert Rizal into a great hero if he did not possess in himself what Palma calls
“excellent qualities and merits”

5. Briefly trace the biography of Jose Rizal to include the paternal and maternal ancestors?
Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race,
was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in
a family of 11 children’s (2 boys and 9 girls).
In 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with an
average “excellent” from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila.
 In 1878, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to
stop in his studies when he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated upon
by their Dominican tutors. On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he continued his
studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was
conferred the degree Licentiate Medicine and on June 19, 1885, at the age of 24, he
finished his course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of “excellent.”

Having traveled extensively in Europe, America and Asia, he mastered 22

languages. These include Arabic, Catalon , Chinese, English, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayn, Portoguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish,
Tagalog, and other native dialects. A versatile genius, he was an architect, artists,
businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian,
inventor, journalist. Linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, naturalist, novelist, ,
ophthalmic surgeon, poet , propagandist, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist,
and theologian.

In the hope of securing political and social reforms for his country and at the
same time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest apostle of Filipino nationalism,
published, while in Europe, several works with highly nationalistic and revolutionary
tendencies.

While a political exile in Dapitan, he engaged in agriculture, fishing and business;

he maintained and operated a hospital; he conducted classes taught his pupils the
English and Spanish languages, the arts.

July 6, 1892, he was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, on the charge of instigating

unrest against Spain, he Was exiled to Dapitan, in northwestern Mindanao. He remained
in exile for four years, while he Was in political exile in Dapitan, he practiced medicine,
he established a school for boys,Promoted community development projects, he
applied his knowledge in engineering by Constructing a system of waterworks in order
to furnish clean water to the townspeople. In dapitan he also met, fell in love and lived
with Josephine Bracken.

In 1896, the Katipunan, a Nationalist secret society, launched a revolt against

the Spaniards, although Jose Rizal had no Connection with the organization, his enemies
were able to link him with the revolt. To avoid being involved in the move to start a
revolution, he asked Governor Ramon Blanco to send him To Cuba but instead he was
brought back to Manila and jailed for the second time in Fort Santiago.

On December 26, 1896, after a trial, Rizal was sentenced to die, he was
convicted of Rebellion, sedition, and of forming an illegal association. On the eve of his
execution while Confined in Fort Santiago, Rizal wrote a poem Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last
Farewell) and hid it Inside the gas burner and gave the gas burner to his sister Trinidad
and his wife Josephine.

He was executed on December 30, 1896 at the age of 35 by a firing squad at

Bagumbayan, now known as Luneta Park in Manila. Jose Rizal was a man of many
accomplishments – a linguist, a Novelist, a poet, a scientist, a doctor, a painter, an
educator, a reformer and a visionary, he left His people his greatest patriotic poem, Mi
Ultimo Adios to serve as an inspiration for the next Generations.

THE RIZAL CHILDREN

1. Saturnina (1850 – 1913)

o oldest of the Rizal children
o nicknamed Neneng
o married Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanawan Batangas

2. Paciano (1851- 1930)

o older brother and confident of Jose Rizal

o was a second father to Rizal immortalized him in Rizal’s first novel Noli
Me Tangere as the wise Pilosopo Tasio
o Rizal regarded him as the “most noble of Filipinos”
o became a combat general in the Philippine Revolution
o died on April 13, 1930, an old bachelor aged 79
o had two children by his mistress (Severina Decena) – a boy and a girl

3. Narcisa (1852- 1939)

o her pet name was Sisa

o married to Antonio Lopez (nephew of Father Leoncio Lopez), a school
teacher of Morong

4. Olimpia (1855- 1887)

o Ypia was her pet name

o Married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila

5. Lucia (1857- 1919)

o married to Mariano Herbosa of Calamba, who was a nephew of Father

Casanas
o Herbosa died of cholera in 1889 and was denied Christian burial
because he was a brother-in-law of Dr. Rizal

6. Maria (1859- 1945)

 o Biang was her nickname
o married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biṅan, Laguna

7. Jose (1861- 1896)

o the greatest Filipino hero and peerless genius

o nickname was Pepe
o lived with Josephine Bracken, Irish girl from Hongkong
o had a son but this baby boy died a hours after birth; Rizal named him
“Francisco” after his father and buried him in Dapitan

8. Concepcion (1862- 1865)

o her pet name was Cocha

o died of sickness at the age of 3
o her death was Rizal’s first sorrow in life

9. Josefa (1865- 1945)

o her pet name was Panggoy

o died an old maid at the age of 80

10. Trinidad (1868- 1951)

o Trining was her pet name

o she died also an old maid in 1951 aged 83

11. Soledad (1870- 1929)

o youngest of the Rizal children

o her pet name was Choleng
o married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba

Jose Rizal was the seventh of the eleven children of Francisco Mercado Rizal and
Teodora Alonso Realonda. The hero’s father, Francisco (1818- 1898) was born in Biṅan,
Laguna, on May 11, 1818. He died in Manila on Janaury 5, 1898, at the age of 80. In his
student memoirs, Rizal affectionately called him “a model of fathers”. Do

o FATHER’S SIDE

As a typical Filipino, Rizal was a product of the mixture of races. In his veins flowed
the blood of both East and West – Negrito, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Japanese, and
Spanish. Predominantly, he was a Malayan and was a magnificent specimen of Asian
 manhood. Rizal’s great-great grand-father on his father side was Domingo Lamѐo, a
Chinese immigrant from the Fukein city of Changchow, who arrived in Manila about
1690. He became a Christian, married a well-to-do Chinese Christian girl of Manila Ines
de la Rosa, and assumed in 1731 the surname Mercado which was appropriate form him
because he was a merchant. The Spanish term Mercado means “market” in English.
Domingo Mercado and Ines de la Rosa had a son, Francisco Mercado, who resided in
Biṅan, married a Chinese-Filipino mestiza, Cirilia Bernacha, and was elected
gobernadorcillo (municipal mayor) of the town. One of their son, Juan Mercado (Rizal’s
grandfather), married Cirlia Alejandro, a Chinese-Filipino mestiza. Like his father, he was
elected gobernadorcillo of Biṅan. Capitan Juan and Capitana Cirila had thirteen children,
the youngest being Francisco Mercado, Rizal’s father.

o MOTHER’S SIDE

Lakandula
(The last native king of Tondo)

Eugenio Ursua (Rizal’s maternal Great-great Grandfather of Japanese Ancestry)

Benigma (a Filipina)

Regina Manuel de Quintos (a Filipino from Pangasinan)

Brigida Lorenzo Alberto Alonso (a prominent Spanish Filipino mestizo of Biṅan)

Narcisa, Teodora (Rizal’s mother), Manuel at Jose

6. Name/enumerate the writings of Dr. Jose Rizal and identify each writing/literacy works as
to Prose and Poetry.

POETRY PROSE
 TO MY FELLOW CHILDREN  La Solidaridad
 MY FIRST INSPIRATION  El Filibusterismo
 THROUGH EDUCATION OUR  Noli Mi Tangere
MOTHERLAND RECEIVES LIGHT
 THE INTIMATE ALLIANCE BETWEEN
RELIGION AND GOOD EDUCATION
 TO THE CHILD JESUS
 TO THE VIRGIN MARY
 TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH
Theme: “Grow, O Timid Flower’’
 THEY ASKED ME FOR VERSES
 To the Flowers of Heidelberg
 TO THE FILIPINOS
 TO MY MUSE
 MY RETREAT
 MY COUNTRYMEN
 Josephine, Josephine
 THE SONG OF THE TRAVELER
 KUNDIMAN