Rizal's Family, Childhood, and Early Education PDF

RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION The Advent of National Hero ability, and the fortitude of Spartan women. José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso...

RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION The Advent of National Hero ability, and the fortitude of Spartan women. José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso “My mother is a woman of more than Realonda ordinary culture; she knows literature “Dr. Jose Rizal is a unique example of a many- and speaks Spanish better than I. She splendored genius who became the greatest corrected my poems and gave me good hero of a nation.” advice when I was studying rhetoric. She is mathematician and has many Economist, Educator, Sportsman, Poet, books. Cartographer, Dramatist, Physician The Philippine govt offered her a life (Ophthalmic Surgeon), Painter, pension “My family has never been Linguist, Novelist, Prophet, Essayist, patriotic about money. If the govt. has Sculptor, Farmer Businessman, plenty of funds, and does not know what Inventor, traveler, Engineer, Musician, to do with them, better reduce taxes” Ethnologist, Satirist, Naturalist, Surveyor, Humorist, Philologist, The Rizal Children Geographer, Magician, Architect, God blessed the marriage of Francisco and Translator, Bibliophile, Folklorist, Teodora with eleven children- two boys and Historian, Grammarian nine girls. The Birth of a Hero 1. Saturnina (Neneng) she married Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861. Manuel T. Hidalgo He was baptized in the Catholic church 2. Paciano – he had two children with his June 22, aged three days old by Father mistress Severina Decena Rufino Collantes His Godfather (ninong) was Father 3. Narcisa – (Sisa) she married Antonio Pedro Casanas, native of Calamba and Lopez (a teacher in Morong) close friend of the Rizal Family 4. Olimpia – (Ypia) she married Silvestre His name “Jose” was chosen by his Ubaldo (a telegraph operator) mother who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph) 5. Lucia – she married Mariano Herbosa who died in Cholera but denied Rizal’s Parents Christian burial because he was Jose Rizal was the 7th of the eleven brother-in-law of Rizal children of Francisco and Teodora 6. Maria (biang) she married Daniel FRANCISCO MERCADO was born in Faustino Cruz Biñan, Laguna He studied Latin and Philosophy 7. Jose – he lived with Josphine Bracken He became a tenant-farmer of the 8. Concepcion (concha) died of sickness Dominican-owned hacienda at the age of 3 He was a hardy and independent- minded man, who talked less and 9. Josefa (panggoy) died an old maid worked more and was strong in body and valiant in spirit. 10. Trinidad (Trining) died an old maid In his student memoirs, Rizal 11. Soledad (choleng) she married affectionately called him “a model of Pantaleon Quintero fathers” Doña Teodora, the hero’s mother, was Who retrieved the body of Rizal when he was a remarkable woman, possessing buried in the Chinese cemetery? refined culture, literary talent, business NJM  RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION Answer: Soledad According to Ambassador Leon Ma. Guerrero, whoever that Spanish Rizal’s Ancestry alcalde mayor was, his choice was Rizal was a product of the mixture of races: prophetic for Rizal in Spanish means a field where wheat, cut while still green, Negrito sprouts again Indonesian Malay Who started giving surnames to Filipinos in Chinese order to easily traced them? Japanese Answer: Governor General Claveria Spanish A GOOD AND MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY Rizal’s Paternal Side The Rizal family belonged to the Domingo Lameo (Lam-co) principalia, a town aristocracy in a Chinese immigrant from the Fukien Spanish Philippines city of Changchow They owned a carriage, which was a he married a Chinese Christian named status symbol of illustrados in Spanish Ines dela Rosa Philippines and a private library (the had a son named Francisco Mercado largest in Calamba) which consisted of (gobernadorcillo) who marries Cirila more than 1000 volumes. Bernacha They sent their children to the colleges One of their sons, Juan Mercado in Manila. (gobernadorcillo) married Cirila The Rizal’s Home Alejandro had 13 children, Francisco Mercado As evidence of their affluence, Rizal’s being the youngest parents were able to build a large stone house which was situated near the town Gobernadorcillo – a mayor in a municipal. church Eugenio Ursua Don Francisco and Doña Teodora loved their children, but they never spoiled with Japanese ancestry who married a them. Evidently, they believed in the Filipina named Benigna maxim “Spare the rod and spoil the their daughter Regina married Manuel child” de Quintos (Filipino-Chinese) One of their daughters was Brigida Childhood years in Calamba who married Lorenzo Alberto Alonso Calamba, the Hero’s Town (a prominent Spanish Filipino) Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo Their children were Narcisa, Teodora ❖ He wrote the poem at the age of (Rizal’s mother), Gregorio, Manuel and 15 remembering his town. Jose ❖ Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In The Surname Rizal memory of my town.) The real surname of Rizal family was Earliest Childhood Memories Mercado, which was adopted in 1783 The first memory of Rizal, in his infancy, by Domingo Lamco. Rizal’s family was his happy days in the family garden acquired a second surname “RIZAL” when he was three years old. which was given by Spanish alcalde A kind old woman was employed as an mayor aya (nurse maid) to look after his comfort. NJM  RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION Another childhood memory was the It is said that it was staged in a Calamba daily Angelus prayer. festival. Sometimes when he did not like to take Rizal as Boy Magician his supper, the aya would threaten him that the asuang, the nuno, the tikbalang, With his dexterous hands, he learned or a terrible bearded and turbaned various tricks such as making the coin bombal would come to take him away if or handkerchief appear and disappear he would not eat his supper. In chapter 17 & 18 in El Fili, he revealed his wide knowledge in magic. Childhood years in Calamba Influence on the Hero’s Boyhood The Hero’s first sorrow Hereditary Influence The death of Concha (Concepcion) at the age 3. Malayan ancestor Chinese ancestor Devoted Son of the Church Spanish ancestor A scion of Catholic clan, born and bred Parents in wholesome atmosphere of Catholicism, and possessed of an Environmental Influence inborn pious spirit, Rizal grew up a good It includes places, associates and Catholic events Pilgrimage in Antipolo Aid of Divine Providence In order to fulfill his mother’s vow which A person may have everything in lifelike was made when Jose was born, Jose brains, wealth and power but without and his father left Calamba to go on the aid of divine providence, he cannot Pilgrimage to Antipolo attain greatness in the annals of the The Story of the Moth nation One of the stories told by Doña Teodora Early Education in Calamba and Biñan that made a profoundest impression on The Hero’s First Teacher him The tragic faith of the young moth which Doña Teodora “died martyr to its illusions” left a Maestro Celestino deep impress on Rizal’s mind Maestro Lucas Padua Leon Monroy Artistic Talents Jose Goes to Biñan Since early childhood Rizal revealed his God- given talent of art. Maestro Justiniano Cruz Juancho First Poem by Rizal ❖ Painting lesson Sa aking mga Kabata (To my fellow First School Brawl children) He wrote it at the age of 8 Pedro Andres Salandanan First Drama by Rizal Best Student in School He wrote his first dramatic work which was Tagalog comedy NJM  RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION Martyrdom of Gom-bur-za On February 17, 1872, three priests- Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora-were killed in Bagumbayan on charges of leading a mutiny of arsenal workers in Cavite with the aim of overthrowing the colonial government. The three priests were not involved in the mutiny; they hardly even knew each other. What they were, however, were prominent figures in the secularization movement, which wanted to take Church power away from the colonial Spanish and give native Filipinos increased roles in Church affairs. The martyrdom of Gomburza in 1872 truly inspired rizal to fight the evils of Spanish tyranny and redeem his oppressed people. And later, in 1891, he dedicated his second novel El Filibusterismo to Gombuza Secularization Original Spanish Priest Secular Filipino Priest NJM