DOCTOR completed his medical course in Spain and was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the

Universidad Central de Madrid

PEPE - In Spanish, the letter "P" is pronounced as "peh" giving rise to his nickname Pepe

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

REALONDA used by his mother from godmother's surname based on the culture by that time

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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

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.

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.

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 the Spanish 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 notes of 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 the lands 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.