THE RIZAL FAMILY

AND SIBLINGS
1818-1897

Francisco
Mercado
Rizal

Juan Cirila
Mercado Alejandro

Domingo Ines dela

Lam-co Rosa
1827-1911 Teodora
Alonso

Lorenzo
Brigada
Alberto

Manuel de
Regina
Quintos

Eugenio Ursua Benigna

 Siblings of Jose
Rizal

SATURNINA PACIANO
 “
I don't know why I forgot to introduce you to my brother. You
who wish to know good men will find in him the most noble of
the Filipinos. And though an Indio, more generous and noble
than all the Spaniards put together

Rizal, London, June 23, 1883 to Blumentritt

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 Siblings of Jose Rizal

NARCISA OLYMPIA LUCIA

 “
Is Sra. Ipia (Señora Olympia) there already? Do her eyes still
become small when she laughs?...If her habits haven't
changed yet, I fear very much for the skin of that boy: How many
pinching she will get.

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 Siblings of Jose
Rizal
“Since the middle of August I haven't
taken a bath and I haven't perspired
either. That is so here. It is very cold
and a bath is expensive. One pays
thirty-five cent for one.”

-Rizal, Madrid, December 1882

MARIA
Jose Rizal is the 7th Child of
Franciso and Teodora
 Siblings of Jose
Rizal

“When I was four years old, I lost my

little sister Concha, and then for the
first time I shed tears caused by love
and grief.”

CONCEPCIO
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 Siblings of Jose
Rizal

JOSEFA TRINIDAD
TRINIDAD
“Now that you are still young and you have time to
learn, it is necessary that you study by reading and
reading attentively. It is a pity that you allow yourself to
be dominated by laziness when it takes so little effort
to shake it off. It is enough to form only the habit of
study and later everything goes by itself.”

-Rizal, March 1886

“Dearest Brother: I left the College two years, one month and a
half ago.”

-Trining 1890
 SOLEDAD
If you have a sweetheart, behave towards him nobly
and with dignity, instead of resorting to secret
meetings and conversations which do nothing but
lower a woman's worth in the eyes of a man… You
should value more, esteem more your honor and you
will be more esteemed and valued.”
-Rizal

“I enjoin you to consider the gray hair of our parents; they were
already very old and we should sow with glory their old days.
Think … of your honor and of ours. You have many nieces; give
them a good example and be worthy of yourselves.”
 “
Men should be noble and worthy and behave like men and not
like thieves or adventurers who hide themselves. You should
despise a man who is afraid to come out in the open.”…I have
despised and considered unworthy of me any young man that I
have seen hiding and fleeing between shadows.”
-Rizal

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 BRAIN TEASER
What is the meaning behind
your given name?
RIZAL’S CHILDHOOD AND
EARLY EDUCATION
 BIRTH OF A
HERO

⊡ Born June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna

⊡ Baptized by Fr. Rufino Collantes

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 RIZAL’S
VITAL
STATISTICS
(?)

Angel Anden (1957)

 “
My family never paid much attention [to our second surname
Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus giving me the appearance
of an illegitimate child!”. My family never paid much attention
[to our second surname Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus
giving me the appearance of an illegitimate child!.
- Rizal in Memoirs Student in Manila

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DR. JOSE PROTACIO
MERCADO RIZAL Y.
ALONZO REALONDA
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 “
I was not brought up among the people
and perhaps I do not know what they
need.
- Simon Ibarra, Noli Me Tangere

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 CHILDHOOD
MEMORIES
⊡ Pencil sketches and mouldings of clays, and wax
objects at the age of 5
⊡ Rizal as Boy Magician

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 “
Sa Aking Mga Kabata (To My Fellow Children) at the age of 8

Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling tula/wika mahigit sa hayop at

malansang isda.

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 RIZAL SHRINE,
CALAMBA LAGUNA

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 RIZAL SHRINE,
CALAMBA LAGUNA

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 RIZAL SHRINE,
CALAMBA LAGUNA

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 RIZAL SHRINE,
CALAMBA LAGUNA

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 RIZAL SHRINE,
CALAMBA LAGUNA

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THE STORY OF THE MOTH
The Children’s Friend (El Amigo de los Niños)

“See that you do not behave like the young moth. Don’t be
disobedient or you may get burnt as it did”
-Teodora Alonso

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 WANT BIG
IMPACT?

Lakeshore
Reveries

I spent many, many hours of my childhood down on the shore of the

lake, Laguna de Bay… Almost every day, in our town, we saw the
Guardia Civil lieutenant caning and injuring some unarmed and
inoffensive villagers. The villager’s only fault was that while at a
distance he had not taken off his hat and made his bow. The alcalde
treated the poor villagers in the same way whenever visited.

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 Hereditary

R IZA L’S
INFLUENC E
Environmental Divine Providence
EDUCATION AND
LIFE IN BIÑAN
1869-1870

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 TEACHERS

Calamba
Teodora Maestro Maestro
Leon Monroy
Alonso Celestino Lucas Padua

Biñan
Justiniano
Aquino Cruz

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 “
Inspite of the reputation I had being a good
boy, the day was unusual when I was not laid
out on a bench and given five to six blows.”

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 DAILY LIFE IN
BIÑAN
Hear four o’clock mass or study his lessons then went to Mass
afterward
Eat Breakfast (Rice and two dried fish)
Go to class and be out at ten o’clock
Study
Go to school at two and out at five
Play for a short while then return to home
Study, draw and eat supper (ayungin)
Pray, if there is moon, play
 ALBERTO HOUSE IN
BIÑAN, LAGUNA (2012)
 “
Farewell Biñan
“It seemed that I had presentiment that I would never come
back so that I went very often and sadly to the chapel of Virgin
of Peace; gathered little stones as a souvenir, made paper
fishes, went to the river, & readied everything for my departure.
I bade my friends and teacher farewell, with pleasant and
profound sadness”

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