RIZAL’S

GREATEST LOVE

TOPIC 9
 Segunda Katigbak
→ Teen age puppy love.

→ She was 14 yrs old, when they met

through Rizal’s Sister.

→ “She is not the most beautiful

woman I had ever seen, but I blushed
every time she looked at me, I have
not met anyone more alluring and
beguiling.” According to Rizal’s diary
Memorias de un Estudiante de
Manila.
FIRST LOVE
 Leonor Valenzuela
→ Imagined love

→ The girl next door.

→ Orang was 14 yrs old, she met

Rizal as a sophomore medical student
at UST.

→ Rizal’s exchanger of Private and

Secret Love Letter.

SECOND LOVE
 Leonor Rivera
→Long-Distance Idealized But
Doomed Love

→Second Cousin of Rizal, daughter

of Antonio Rivera (Rizal’s Uncle) and
Leonor Rivera who’s against with
Rizal for her daughter.

→Coded Alphabet

THIRD LOVE
 Consuelo Ortiga Y Reyes
→The Madrid Flirt

→She is 18 when Rizal courted her.

The daughter of Señor Pablo Ortiga y
Rey.

→All the young Filipino expatriates

courted Consuelo.

→She received gift from Rizal:

Sinamay cloth, embroidered piña
handkerchiefs, chinelas (slippers)
FOURTH LOVE
 O Sei-San
→The Samurai’s Daughter.
→Seiku Usui her real name, a 23 yrs
old Japanese.
→The Ideal Womanhood of Rizal:
Beauty, charm, modesty, &
intelligence.
→“O Sei San, sayonara, sayonara! …. No
woman like you has ever loved me. … Like
the flower of the chodji that falls from the
stem whole and fresh without stripping
leaves or withering… you have not lost your
purity nor have the delicate petals of your
innocence faded—sayonara, sayonara.”
FIFTH LOVE
 Gertrude Beckett
→A Contemporary Pastime.

→She was a buxom young lady with

blue eyes and brown hair.

→Rizal called her “Gettie”, while she

called Rizal “Pettie”.

SIXTH LOVE
 Suzanne Thill
→Niece of the landlady where Rizal
stayed in Brussels, Belgium.

→She was taken by Rizal’s charm

and gallantry, and provided him good
company.

SEVENTH LOVE
 Nellie Boustead
→Rizal found her to be intelligent,
morally upright, and full of life.

→She wants Rizal to convert from

Catholic to Protestantism.

→Her mother is not in favor of Rizal to

married her daughter.

EIGHT LOVE