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    Rizal had romantic relationships with at least nine women during his life: Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckett, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby, and Josephine Bracken. Leonor Rivera was Rizal's sweetheart for 11 years while he traveled, though they were separated when her mother made her marry another man. In Dapitan, Rizal fell in love with Josephine Bracken and asked her to marry him, but they had to marry without church blessings due to demands that Rizal retract his writings first.

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    Rizal had romantic relationships with at least nine women during his life: Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckett, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby, and Josephine Bracken. Leonor Rivera was Rizal's sweetheart for 11 years while he traveled, though they were separated when her mother made her marry another man. In Dapitan, Rizal fell in love with Josephine Bracken and asked her to marry him, but they had to marry without church blessings due to demands that Rizal retract his writings first.

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    Rizal had romantic relationships with at least nine women during his life: Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckett, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby, and Josephine Bracken. Leonor Rivera was Rizal's sweetheart for 11 years while he traveled, though they were separated when her mother made her marry another man. In Dapitan, Rizal fell in love with Josephine Bracken and asked her to marry him, but they had to marry without church blessings due to demands that Rizal retract his writings first.

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    Rizal had romantic relationships with at least nine women during his life: Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckett, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby, and Josephine Bracken. Leonor Rivera was Rizal's sweetheart for 11 years while he traveled, though they were separated when her mother made her marry another man. In Dapitan, Rizal fell in love with Josephine Bracken and asked her to marry him, but they had to marry without church blessings due to demands that Rizal retract his writings first.

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    Rizal, The Romantic

    There were at least nine women linked with Rizal, namely: Segunda Katigbak Leonor Valenzuela Leonor Rivera Consuelo Ortiga O-Sei San Gertrude Beckette Nelly Boustead Suzanne Jacoby Josephine Bracken.

    Segunda Katigbak

    Segunda Katigbak

    Segunda Katigbak was her puppy love. Unfortunately, his first love was engaged to be married to a town mateManuel Luz.

    Leonor Valenzuela

    Leonor Valenzuela
    After his admiration for a short girl in the person of Segunda, then came Leonor Valenzuela, a tall girl from Pagsanjan. Rizal send her love notes written in invisible ink, that could only be deciphered over the warmth of the lamp or candle. He visited her on the eve of his departure to Spain and bade her a last goodbye.

    Leonor Rivera

    Leonor Rivera
    Leonor Rivera, his sweetheart for 11 years played the greatest influence in keeping him from falling in love with other women during his travel. Unfortunately, Leonors mother disapproved of her daughters relationship with Rizal, who was then a known filibustero. She hid from Leonor all letters sent to her sweetheart. Leonor believing that Rizal had already forgotten her, sadly consented her to marry the Englishman Henry Kipping, her mothers choice.

    Consuelo Ortiga

    Consuelo Ortiga
    Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the prettier of Don Pablo Ortigas daughters, fell in love with him. He dedicated to her A la Senorita C.O. y R., which became one of his best poems. The Ortiga's residence in Madrid was frequented by Rizal and his compatriots. He probably fell in love with her and Consuelo apparently asked him for romantic verses. He suddenly backed out before the relationship turned into a serious romance, because he wanted to remain loyal to Leonor Rivera and he did not want to destroy hid friendship with Eduardo de Lete who was madly in love with Consuelo.

    O Sei San

    O Sei San
    Osei-san, a Japanese samurais daughter taught Rizal the Japanese art of painting known as sumi-e. She also helped Rizal improve his knowledge of Japanese language. If Rizal was a man without a patriotic mission, he would have married this lovely and intelligent woman and lived a stable and happy life with her in Japan because the Spanish legation there offered him a lucrative job.

    Gertrude Beckett

    Gertrude Beckett
    Gertrude, a blue-eyed and buxom girl was the oldest of the three Beckett daughters. She fell in love with Rizal. Tottie helped him in his painting and sculpture. But Rizal suddenly left London for Paris to avoid Gertrude, who was seriously in love with him. Before leaving London, he was able to finish the group carving of the Beckett sisters. He gave the group carving to Gertrude as a sign of their brief relationship.

    Nellie Boustead

    Nellie Boustead
    Rizal having lost Leonor Rivera, entertained the thought of courting other ladies. While a guest of the Boustead family at their residence in the resort city of Biarritz, he had befriended the two pretty daughters of his host, Eduardo Boustead. Rizal used to fence with the sisters at the studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna, Juans brother and also a frequent visitor of the Bousteads, courted Nellie but she was deeply infatuated with Rizal.

    Suzanne Jacoby

    Suzanne Jacoby
    In 1890, Rizal moved to Brussels because of the high cost of living in Paris. In Brussels, he lived in the boarding house of the two Jacoby sisters. In time, they fell deeply in love with each other. Suzanne cried when Rizal left Brussels and wrote him when he was in Madrid. There is a debate on whether Rizal had a relation with Suzanne Jacoby (she was much older than Rizal) or with her niece, the 18-year-old Suzanne Thill).

    Josephine Bracken

    Josephine Bracken
    In the last days of February 1895, while still in Dapitan, Rizal met an 18-year old petite Irish girl, with bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy disposition. She was Josephine Bracken, the adopted daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong, who came to Dapitan to seek Rizal for eye treatment. Rizal was physically attracted to her. His loneliness and boredom must have taken the measure of him and what could be a better diversion that to fall in love again. But the Rizal sisters suspected Josephine as an agent of the friars and they considered her as a threat to Rizals security.

    Josephine Bracken
    Rizal asked Josephine to marry him, but she was not yet ready to make a decision due to her responsibility to the blind Taufer. Since Taufers blindness was untreatable, he left for Hon Kong on March 1895. Josephine stayed with Rizals family in Manila. Upon her return to Dapitan, Rizal tried to arrange with Father Antonio Obach for their marriage. However, the priest wanted a retraction as a precondition before marrying them. Rizal upon the advice of his family and friends and with Josephines consent took her as his wife even without the Church blessings. Josephine later give birth prematurely to a stillborn baby, a result of some incidence, which might have shocked or frightened her.

    There may be other women that Rizal may have contacted with as he traveled a lot. He may have met women in the cabarets in Paris, in parks in Germany, at the train stations in the U.S. or in the steamships bound for Spain. We may never know.

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