Since Dona Teodora could no longer have

enough time with the young Jose, the couple

agreed to get a tutor to meet the intellectual
needs of Jose…

Rizal’s private tutors…

Maestro Celestino

Maestro Lucas Padua

Maestro Leon Monroy…

tutor in Latin and
Spanish..He was a classmate
of Don Francisco…
Leon Monroy died after five months
of being a tutor to the young Jose

Don Francisco decided to send Jose

to Binan for a formal schooling.

Paciano accompanied him to Binan

in June 1869.

They took the carromata and reach

Binan almost night time.

They went straight to the house of

Rizal’s Aunt where he is expected to
stay.
That same night, Rizal’s cousin - Leandro
took Jose for a sightseeing in the town…

His cousin noticed that Jose did not enjoy

the trip. Instead, he felt homesick.

The following day, Paciano brought Jose to

the house of Maestro Justiniano Aquino
Cruz…

It was just 30 meters away from his aunt’s

house.

The school was actually an extension of

the house of the school teacher…

After introducing Jose to Maestro Cruz, he

left and went back to Calamba…
First day in school…

Jose was asked by his teacher if he knew Spanish and

Latin.
His response was in the affirmative for both questions.
The boys in his class laughed especially Pedro – the bully
of the class and happens to be the son of Maestro Cruz..
The teacher stopped the noise immediately..

Rizal’s description of his teacher…

“He was a tall thin man, with a sharp nose and a
body bent slightly forward. He usually wore a
sinamay Camisa. He knew by heart what he is
teaching.”
First fight…..
He cannot forget how Pedro laughed at him earlier. While his
teacher was taking his rest, he met Pedro and challenged him to a
fight…
Pedro accepted his challenged because he taught he will win…
They wrestled furiously in the classroom to the glee of their
classmates, Rizal won..

After the class in the afternoon, another classmate –Andres

Lakundanan/Salandanan challenged him to an armed wrestling…
he accepted the challenge but lost it… but these was not the last..
There were a few more… he won some and lost some…..

To get even with him in his superiority inside the

class, his classmates would tell their teacher about his
participation in the fights and the teacher would always
punish him with a blow to his butt or hands…
 His painting lessons…….

Near the school was the house of an old

painter- Juancho.. He is the father in law of
Maestro Cruz…
Jose spent many hours in his studio.
Juancho freely gave him lessons in drawing
and painting. He was impressed by the artistic
talent of Jose..
He was accompanied by his classmate Jose
Guevarra.. They became apprentices of the old
painter.
Later, they became the favorite painters of the
class….
 Daily Life in Binan….

Attends mass or studies his lessons at 4 am..

After attending mass,
he looks for his favorite fruit –The Mabolo
He eats his breakfast (rice and two fried sardines). Then
off to school.. ends at 10 am and goes home for lunch
If there is good food, he and his my cousin were asked
to bring it to the house of his other cousins.
He takes his lunch then off to his bedroom to study his
lessons..
He goes back to school at 2 pm and ends at 5 pm…
Before going home, he plays a little with his cousin…
Dinner ..… prayer……then sleep….
After a year and a half, Rizal finished his
studies and surpassed all his classmates.
Before he left, he went to church
andtook some pebbles in the river as
souvenirs… he bade farewell to his teacher
and classmates….
Jose came home in December 1871.
He took the steamer -Talim alone from
Binan to Calamba…. A friend of his father,
Arturo Camps looked after him in the
steamer…
His parents and siblings were happy to
see him home.. They celebrated Christmas
joyfully…
 The imprisonment of Dona Lolay….
Before June of 1872, Dona Teodora was
arrested on a malicious charged that she
aided his brother Jose Alberto in poisoning
his wife Teodora Formosa..
When Jose Alberto went abroad, his wife
had an affair.. Dona Lolay discovered it..
Fearing that She will tell his brother,
Teodora Formoso connived with an officer
of the Guardia civil to file a case against
Dona Lolay…
Dona Lolay was sent to the Sta. Cruz Jail…
She was forced to walk 50 km…
This brought so
much pain for the young Jose…
 The martyrdom of GOMBURZA…
Another incident shocked the Rizal
Family in 1872.. Fathers Gomez, Burgos
and Zamora were executed because they
were implicated in the Cavite Mutiny.
Paciano is very close to Fr. Burgos.. He was
his teacher’s pet…

He stayed with Fr. Bugos when he was

still a student in the College of San Jose..

This incident led to Paciano quitting

school because of fear that he might be
linked to Fr. Burgos and would suffer the
same fate…
 Origin of Binan

One theoretical claim that Biñan had

originated from the name of a big tree
called Banyan or Banian (Ficus benjamina
Linn. ) then Spaniard hispanized the term
and called the town Biñan . Since the
ficus trees was unusual to the area and
people had not heard of it, it was then
disregarded.
Another theory is the town’s name might
came from the Greek term, Banyan which
means trader or Mercader, Accordingly,
There are considerable number of traders
flourishing within the town during the
Spanish period in which the current name
Biñan might have originated.
Some parishioners believed
that the town’s name came
from the word “Binyagan”
which means baptized or
baptismal place. During the
Spanish Era, the town was
named Parochia de San
Isidro de Biñan which is now
the emblem of the church.
This is the place where Jose
P. Rizal studied during his
stay in Biñan, now only the
adobe walls and old
tamarind tree, bunga china
and Ilang-Ilang trees can be
seen…