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should know from that start up until the very end of this paper. His great
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and sacrificing himself for our freedom.
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Jose P r o t a s i o R i z a l
Mercado y Alonzo
Realonda Bibliography

José Rizal, in full José Protasio Rizal Mercado y

Alonso Realonda, (born June 19, 1861, Calamba,
Philippines—died December 30, 1896, Manila),
patriot, physician, and man of letters who was an
inspiration to the Philippine nationalist
movement.
The Rizal's Family
Picture
 The Jose Rizal
Family
Jose Rizal’s thirteen-member-family consisted of his father Francisco
Mercado II, his mother Teodora Alonso Realonda, himself, nine sisters
and one brother.
Jose Rizal came from a wealthy family in Calamba, Laguna, Considered
one of the largest families in those times, the 13-member-family consisted
of his father Francisco Mercado II, his mother Teodora Alonso
Realonda, himself, nine sisters and one brother.

The Rizal's Lineage

The Rizal paternal ascendant was Domingo Lam-co, a full-blooded Chinese who
lived in Amoy, China and arrived in the Philippines in the closing years of the
17th century. Domingo Lam-co was married to a Chinese half-breed named Ines
de la Rosa. The Mercado-Rizal family had also Japanese, Spanish, Malay and
Negrito blood aside from their Chinese blood.
 The Rizal's
Parents
Jose Rizal’s father Francisco was the youngest of 13 children of Juan
and Cirila Mercado. He was born in Binan, Laguna, studied in San
Jose College of Manila and died in Manila.
Teodora, the mother of Jose Rizal, was a business-minded, religious and
hard working individual who was born in Santa Cruz, Manila on
November 14, 1827. She was the second child of Brijida de Quintos and
Lorenzo Alonso. Teodora had Spanish and Japanese ancestors while the
father of Teodora was a half Spaniard engineer known as Lorenzo
Alberto Alonzo. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa. Teodora died
in Manila in 1913.
The parents of Jose Rizal were both farmers who were granted by
the Dominicans with the lease of a hacienda together with a rice
farm.
 The Rizal's
Siblings
Saturnina Rizal was theeldest of the offsprings of Francisco
Mercado and Teodora Alonso Realonda. She married
Manuel Hidalgo who hailed from Tanauan, Batangas.
The only brother of Jose Rizal was Paciano Rizal and was
the
second child. Paciano studied at the San Jose College in
Manila and worked as a farmer and later as a general of the
Philippine Revolution.
The other sisters of Jose Rizal were Narcisa,Olympia, Lucia,
Maria, Concepcion, Josefa, Trinidad and Soledad. Soledad
was the youngest child and later was married to Pantaleon
Quintero.
.
How Jose Obtained the Rizal's Last
Name
The Rizal surname was obtained by Francisco Mercado as
suggested to him by a provincial governor after the Governor
General of the Philippines, Narciso Claveria, issued a decree
in 1849 by which native Filipino and immigrant families
were to adopt Spanish surnames from a list of Spanish
family names.
Jose Rizal also obtained the surname Rizal after dropping three
other names that made up his full name. Jose Rizal also retained
Protasio as his other family name. His family never actually
recognized their Rizal surname, but Jose Rizal was forced to use it
so that he can travel freely and disassociate himself from his
brother Paciano, who was notorious because of his links with
native priests who were executed after they were found to be
subversives.
 The Rizal
The house of the Rizal family, where the hero was born, was one of the distinguished
Home
stone houses in Calamba during Spanish times. It was a two-storey building, rectangular
in shape, built of adobe stones and hard-woods, and roofed with red tiles. It is described
by Dr.
Rafael Palma, one of Rizal’s prestigious biographers, as follows:

The house was high and even sumptuous, a solid and massive earthquake-proof
structure with sliding shell windows. Thick walls of lime and stone bounded the first floor;
the second floor was made entirely of wood except for the roof, which was of red tile, in the
style of the buildings in Manila at the time … At the back there was an azotea and a wide,
deep cistern to
hold rain water for home use.

Behind the house were the poultry yard full of turkeys and chickens and a big
garden of tropical fruit trees – atis, balimbing, chico, macopa, papaya, santol,
tampoy, etc.

It was happy home where parental affection and children’s laughter reigned. By 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. Such a wholesome home,
The Rizal's
Home .