Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
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 )
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
Private Library
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.
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.