Francisco Mercado Teodora Alonzo Rizal: Father Mother

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FRANCISCO MERCADO TEODORA ALONZO RIZAL

FATHER MOTHER

Saturnina Hidalgo Paciano Rizal Narcisa Rizal Olympia Rizal Lucia Rizal Maria Rizal
ELDEST SISTER 2nd Child 3rd child 4th Child 5th Child 6th Child

Jose Rizal Conception Rizal Josefa Rizal Trinidad Rizal


Soledad Rizal
7th Child 8th Child 9th Child 10th Child Youngest Child
Francisco Mercado (1818-1898)

Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13 offsprings of Juan and Cirila Mercado. Born in Biñan, Laguna on April 18, 1818; studied in San Jose College, Manila; and died in Manila.

Teodora Alonso (1827-1913)

Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a business-minded woman, courteous,
religious, hard-working and well-read. She was born in Santa Cruz, Manila on November 14, 1827 and died in 1913 in Manila.

Saturnina Rizal Hidalgo (1850-1913)

Born as Saturnina Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda) or simply Saturnina Hidalgo was the eldest sister of Philippine national hero José Rizal. She was married to Manuel T. Hidalgo, a
native and one of the richest persons in Tanauan, Batangas. She was known as Neneng. She died in 1913.

Paciano Rizal (1851-1930)

Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine Revolution. He lived a quiet life as a
gentleman farmer, and died at the age of 79 of tuberculosis.

Narcisa Rizal (1852-1939)

a teacher and a musician by profession, was the third child of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo. She married Antonio Lopez who was a school teacher in Morong, Rizal. They had
nine children—Emilio, Angélica, Isabel, Consuelo, Leoncio, Francisco, Arsenio, Antonio and Fidela.

Olympia Rizal (1855-1887)

Olympia Rizal (1855–1887) was the fourth child of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso. She married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila. Died of childbirth in
1887.

Lucia Rizal (1857-1919)

Lucia was married to Mariano Herbosa, nephew of Fr. Casañas, a witness of Jose Rizal's baptism. Together, they had eight children: (1) Paz; (2) Delfina; (3) Concepcion; (4) Virginia;
(5) José; (6) Teodosio; (7) Patrocinio; and (8) Estanislao. She was widowed young but did not remarry. She died on 25 December 1919 at the age of 62.

Maria Rizal (1859-1945)


Maria was the sixth child and married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna.
Jose Rizal (1861-1896)

José Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist, writer[8] and revolutionary. He is widely considered the greatest national hero
of the Philippines.[9] He was the author of Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo and a number of poems and essays. He was executed on December 30, 1896.

Concepcion Rizal (1862-1865)

Concepcion Rizal (1862 – 1865), also known as “Concha,” was the eight child of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo, who died at the age of three. Concepcion, the eighth among
the Rizal children, died at the age of three due to an illness. As an older brother, Jose, who was four at that time (in 1865), grieved so bitterly. He recalled having cried so hard for the
first time due to love and sorrow for their loss. According to him, “Till then I had shed tears only for my own faults which my loving, prudent mother well knew how to correct.”

Josefa Rizal (1865-1945) and Trinidad Rizal (1868-1951)

Josefa and Trinidad were together living and both died as spinsters. Josefa was medically ill of epilepsy but the two became members of the Katipunan. Rizal’s elegy, “Mi Ultimo Adios”
was in the safekeeping of Trinidad. Josefa Rizal or Panggoy had epilepsy, a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or
symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Due to lack of medical resources to cure her illness during that time, she became a spinster.
Josefa Rizal died in at the age of 80 years old.

Soledad Rizal (1870-1929)

The youngest child, Soledad was married to Pantaleon Quintero.She was a teacher and was considered as the best educated among the sisters of Rizal.

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