(ADVENT OF A NATIONAL HERO)

CHAPTER I
Reported By :

Anna Loraine Pimentel

and
Nica Joy Candelario
JOSE PROTACIO RIZAL MERCADO Y
ALONSO REALONDA
Birth of the
Hero
 June 19, 1861 in the lakeshore of Calamba,
Laguna Province, Philippines.
 Father Pedro Casanas a native of Calamba and close
friend of the Rizal family, was the Godfather
  His mother almost died during the delivery because
of his big head.

 his name “Jose” was chosen by his mother who was

a devoted of the Christian Saint San Jose, (St. Joseph)
  Leutenant General Jose Lemery , a former
senator of Spain was the governor general of the
Philippines when Rizal was born.
Rizal’s Parents
Father : Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandra II
(1818 - 1898)

• Born in Biñan, Laguna on may

11, 1818

• Studied in Latin and Philosophy at the

College of San Jose in Manila
Father : Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandra II
(1818 - 1898)

• he was a hardly and independent-

minded man, who talked less and
worked more, and was strong in body
and valiant in spirit.

• he died in Manila on January 5,

1898 at the age of 80
 Mother: Teodora "Donya Lolay" Morales Alonzo
Realonda y Quintos

• Born on November 9, 1827 in Meisik

(Chinatown), Tondo, Manila.

• She was educated at the

college of Sta. Rosa, a well-
known college for girls in the city
Mother: Teodora "Donya Lolay" Morales Alonzo
Realonda y Quintos

• She was a remarkable woman,

possessing refined culture, literary
talent, business, ability and a
fortified of Spartan woman.

• She died in Manila on August

16, 1911 at the age of 85.
Rizal’s siblings
I. Saturnina (1850 – 1913)

 Nickname : Neneng

 She married Manuel T.

Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batangas
II. Paciano (1851 - 1930)

 older brother and confidant

of Jose Rizal

 he died on April 13, 1930

 Rizal’s only brother who was 10 years his senior, was

more than that of younger to older brother. He was a
second father to Rizal and he immortalized in his first
novel Noli Me Tangere as the wise Pilosopo Tacio.
III. Narcisa (1852 - 1939)

 Pet name: Sisa

 She married Antonio Lopez

(nephew of father Leoncio Lopez),
a school teacher of Morong.
IV. Olympia (1855 - 1887)

 Pet name: Ypia

 She married Silvestro

Ubaldo, a telegraph
operator from Manila
V. Lucia (1857 - 1919)

 She married Mariano

Herbosa of Calamba,
who was a nephew of
father Casanas.
VI. Maria (1859 - 1945)

 Nickname: Biang

 She married Daniel

Faustino Cruz of Biñan,
Laguna
VII. Jose (1861 – 1887)

Nickname: Pepe

 He lived with Josephine

Bracken, Irish girl from
Hongkong during his exile in
Dapitan.
VIII. Concepcion (1862 – 1865)

 Pet name : Concha

 She died of sickness at the age of 3, her

death was Rizal’s first sorrow in life.
IX. Josefa (1865 – 1945)

 Pet name: Panggoy

 She died an old maid

at the age of 80.
X. Trinidad (1868 – 1951)

 Pet name: Trining

 She also died an old maid

in 1951 aged 83.
XI. Soledad (1870 – 1929)

 Pet name: Choleng

 She married Pantaleon

Quintero of Calamba.
 Rizal’s Ancestry

• Rizal was a product of the mixture of races.

(Negrito, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Japanese
and Spanish). Predominantly, he was a Malayan
and was a magnificent specimen of Asian
manhood.
FATHER SIDE:
 Domingo Lameo Ines dela Rosa

Francisco Mercado
Juan Mercado

Cirila Bernarcha Cirila Alejandro

Francisco Mercado
MOTHER SIDE:
 Benigna (unknown
Eugenio Ursula surname)

Regina
Brigida

Lorenzo Roberto
Manuel de Quintos Alonzo

Teodora
 The Surname Rizal

Real surname of the Rizal Family was Mercado which

means “market”. It was adopted in 1731 by Domingo
Lameo (the paternal great-great grandfather of Jose
Rizal), also a full-blooded chinese. Rizal’s family
acquired a second surname – Rizal which was given by
a spanish alkalde mayor of laguna.
 THE RIZAL HOME

 The house of Rizal family was one of the distinguished

stone houses in Calamba during Spanish time. It was a two
storey building, rectangular in shape, built of adobe
stones and hand – wood, and roofed with red tiles.

 Behind the house were the poultry yard full of turkeys and
chickens and a big garden of topical fruit trees – atis, alimbing,
chico, macopa, papaya, santol, etc.
 A Good Middle-Class Family

 The Rizal family belonged to the principalia, a

aristocracy in Spanish Philippines. It was one of the
distinguish families in Calamba.

 Beneath their roof, all guests irrespective of

their color, rank, social position, and economic
status, were welcome.
 Sources of Income:

 Harvested rice, corns and sugarcane

 Raised pigs, chickens and turkeys I their backyard
 Good stores and a small flour-mill and a home-
made religious ham press which managed by
Doña Teodora.
 HOME LIFE OF RIZAL

 The Rizal family had a simple, contented and happy life.

 Don Francisco and Doña Teodora loved their children but,

they never spoiled them. They were strict parents and they
trained their children to love God, to behave well, to be
obefient and to respect people especially the old folks.

 They believed in the maxim: “Spare the rod and

spoil the child”.
 Additional
Informations:
First Love of Rizal

Leonora Valenzuela
First Girlfriend of Rizal

Leonora Rivera
Favorite Professor of Rizal

  Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez

Friend of Rizal

Jose Maria Panganiban

A big influence in the formation of the child's
character was his association with the parish
priest of Kalamba, Father Leoncio Lopez.
 The first was Maestro Celestino and the second, Maestro
Lucas Padua. Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a
former classmate of Rizal’s father, became the boy’s tutor.
This old teacher lived at the Rizal home and instructed Jose
in Spanish and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not lived long. He
died five months later.

After a Monroy’s death, the hero’s parents decided to

send their gifted son to a private school in Biñan.
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