Chapter 3

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Father Rufino Collantes Father Pedro Casanas

(Baptized Rizal) (Rizal’s Godfather)

Mariano Herbosa Lieutenant-General Jose Lemery


(Nephew of Casanas who will marry Lucia) (Governor General OF the Philippines)
“When rizal was born”
Francisco Mercado Rizal Teodora Alonzo Realonda
(Jose Rizal’s Father) (Jose Rizal’ Mother)

Saturnina “Neneng” Paciano


(Oldest of the rizal children nicknamed ) (Older brother and confident of Jose Rizal)
Narcisa Olympia
(Pet Name: Sisa) (Pet name: Ypia)

Lucia Maria
(Married Mariano Herbosa) (Nickname: Biang)
Jose Soledad
(The greatest Filipino hero) (Pet name: Choleng)

Josefa Trinidad
(Pet name: Panggoy) (Pet name: Trining)
Concepcion Domingo Lamco
(Pet name: Concha) (Great great grandfather of Rizal )

Lakan Dula Eugenio Ursua


(Descendant; last native king of tondo) (Great great grandfather of rizal japanese)
Rizal Home

A 2 storey building, rectangular in shape, built of adobe stones and hardwoods, and roofed with red
tiles. Behind the house were poultry yard full of turkeys and chickens, and a big garden of tropical fruit
trees (Atis, Balimbing, chico, macopa, papaya, santol, tampoy, etc.

Principalia

A town aristocracy in Spanish Philippines was one of the distinguished families in Calamba.
Carriage

A status symbol of the ilustrados in Spanish Philippines.

Private Library

The Largest in Calamba, Consisted of more than 1,000 volumes.


Calamba, the Hero’s town

 Natal town of Rizal.


 Named after a big native jar.
 Happiest period of Rizal’s life was spent in this lakeshore town, a worthy prelude to his
Hamlet-like tragic manhood.
 Hacienda town which belonged to the Dominican Order.
 Picturesque town nestling on a verdant plain covered with irrigated rice fields and sugar lands.
 A few kilometers to the south looms of the legendary Mt. Makiling and beyond this mountain is
the province of Batangas.
 East of the town is the Laguna de Bay.
 Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town)
 A poem written by Rizal in 1876 when he was 15 years old and a student of Ateneo de Manila.

 The first memory of Rizal, in his infancy, was


his happy days in the family garden when he was 3 years
old. He was given the tenderest care by his parents
because he was frail, sickly, and undersized.
 His father built a little nipa cottage in the
garden for him to play in the daytime.
 An aya (nurse maid), a kind old woman, was
employed to look after him.
 He watched from the cottage, the culiauan,
maya, maria capra, & martin pitpit and other birds and
listened with “wonder and joy” to the twilight songs. The
daily Angelus prayer.
 The happy moonlit nights at the azotea after the
nightly Rosary.
 The imaginary tales told by the aya aroused
Rizal’s interest in legends and folklore.
 Young Rizal is a religious boy. He grew up a good Catholic.
 At the age of 3, he began to take part in the family prayer. His mother taught him the Catholic
Prayers.
 5 years old, he was able to read the Spanish family bible.
 He was so seriously devout that he was laughingly called Manong Jose by the Hermanos &
Hermanas Terceras.
 Father Leoncio Lopez, town priest, one of the men he esteemed & respected in Calamba during his
boyhood.

 June 06, 1868. Jose and his father left Calamba to go on a pilgrimage to Antipolo.
 First trip of Jose across Laguna de Bay and his first pilgrimage to Antipolo. They rode in a Casco
(barge).
 He was awed by “The magnificence of the water expanse and the silence of the night”.
 After praying at the shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo, Jose and his father went to Manila and visited
Saturnina, who was then a boarding student at La Concordia College in Santa Ana.
 Age 5, started making sketches with his pencil and to mould in clay and wax objects which
attracted his fancy.
 A religious banner was always used during fiesta and it was spoiled; Rizal painted in oil colors a
new banner that delighted the townfolks.
 Jose had the soul of a genuine artist.

First Poem by Rizal Lakeshore Reveries


Aid Of Divine Providence - A person cannot attain
greatness in the annals of the nation despite
having everything life (brains, wealth, and power)
without this.
- Rizal was providentially destined to be the pride
and glory of his nation; endowed by God with
versatile gifts of a genius, vibrant spirit of a
nationalist, and the valiant heart to sacrifice for a
noble cause.

Dona Teodora Carromata


(His mother, was his first teacher.) (their mode of transportation)
Arturo Camps Cavite Mutiny – (January 20 1872)

(Frenchman and friend of his father)

Gomburza El Filibusterismo
(Were leaders of the secularization movement) (In 1891, Rizal dedicated his Novel to Gomburza)
 In 1872, Doña Teodora was arrested on a malicious charge that she aided his brother Jose Alberto
in trying to poison his wife.
 Jose Alberto planned to divorce his wife because of her infidelity. His wife connived with the
Spanish lieutenant of the Guardia Civil and filed a case against Rizal’s mother.

 Antonio Vivencio del Rosario – gobernadorcillo of Calamba, helped the lieutenant arrest Doña
Teodora.

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