“LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL” Profession – Opthalmologist (Mother’s falling eyesight)

RA 1425 “Rizal Law” – Signed by President Ramon Magsaysay (June
12, 1956)
Claro M. Recto – Main proponent of Rizal Law
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
Pen names: Dimasalang, Laong Laan, Agno
Blumetritt – Rizal’s Bestfriend
Rufino Collantes - Baptized Rizal
Pedro Casanas – Rizal’s Godfather
Eulogio Despujol – Ordered to exile Rizal’s in Dapitan, Zamboanga
del Norte

Birthdate: June 19, 1861 (Calamba Laguna) Carmilo Polavieja – Ordered to kill Rizal

Died: December 30, 1896 (Bagumbayan) Blanco – Approved the application of Rizal as vo voluntter physician
to Cuba
Father: Francisco Mercado (a Model of Fathers – Free Soul)
Justiano Aquino Cruz – Rizal’s teacher in Binan
Mother: Teodora Alonso “Lolay” (Rizal’s first teacher)
Jose Maria Basa
Grandfather: Juan Mercado (Served as Captain of Binan)
Leonor Rivera – Rizal’s true love
1. Saturnina
2. Paciano – only brother Josephine Bracken
3. Narcisa
4. Olimpia
5. Lucia Usman – Rizal’s Dog (Black)
6. Maria NOLI ME TANGERE – ”Touch me not” (Motherland)
7. Jose – Died at 35
8. Concepcion – First Sorrow Uncle Tom’s Cabin by harriet Beecher Stowe
9. Josefa Maximo Viola – Finance the printing cost of the book Noli Me
10. Trinidad Tangere
11. Soledad
2000 initial copies
Predominant Ancestry – Malay
300.00
POLYGLOT – Linguist (more or less 22 languages)
EL FILIBUSTERISMO (Ghent, Belgium) – “The Reign of Greed”
ATENEO – Primary scool of Rizal (Bachelor of Arts) (GOMBURZA)
Rizal’s course in UST – Philosophy and Letter The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
VALENTIN VENTURA - Finance the printing cost of the book EL
FILIBUSTERISMO
SA AKING MGA KABABATA – Rizal’s First Poem
A LA JUVEMTUD FILIPINA(Poem) – Rizal’s Crowning Glory (UST)
AMOR PATRIO
MI PRIMERA INSPIRACION – Dedicated to his Mother
MI ULTIMU ADIOS – Wrote before execution (SONNET)
LA INDOLENCIA DE LOS FILIPINOS – Defense of the alleged Laziness
of the Filipinos
LETTER TO THE YOUNG WOMAN OF MALOLOS – Rizal’s writing for
women
IN MEMORY OF MY TOWN
MAKAMISA – Unfinihed literary work of Rizal (Novel)