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Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal
I. RIZAL’S REAMAINS
The remains of Dr. Rizal were exhumed and taken to his house in Binondo On
August 17, 1898. The remains of Rizal were exhumed from the Paco Cemetery and
takin to his house on Estraude Street in Binondo, Manila where his father,
Fancisco Mercado died in January of the same year.
Accordingly, after Dr. Jose Rizal’s execution on December 30, 1896 in
Bagumbayan(later called Luneta and now Rizal Park) his body was secretly
buried at the Paco Cemetery with no identification on his grave. His sister
Narcisa, toured all possible gravesites and found freshly turned earth at the
cemetery with civil guards posted at the gate. Assuming this could be the most
likely spoy, there being even no ground burials there, she gave a gift to the
caretaker to mark the site “RPJ”, Rizal’s initials in reverse, for identification.
At present, the hero’s remains are kept at his national monument bearing his
statue at the Rizal Park.
II. SA AKING MGA KABATA
Is a poem about the one’s native language written in Tagalog. It is widely
attributed to the Filipino national hero Jose Rizal, who supposedly wrote it in
1868 at the age of eight. The poem was first published at 1906 a decade after his
dead.