Rizal from Various
Perspectives
Various Titles
Positive
The first Filipino- Leon Ma.
Guerrero
Great Malayan
Philippine Patriot- Austin
Craig
Great exemplar, A Model
Filipino
Only natl hero of the
Philippines
Negative
Last Spaniard- Nick Joaquin
He declared that he was not a
traitor of Spain
His family benefitted from the
Dominican administrators of
Calamba
Filipino Hamlet
an American-Sponsored Hero
Renato Constantino
The Loves of Rizal
Segunda Katigbak, Leonor
Valenzuela,Leonor Rivera, Vicenta
Ybardaloza, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei
San, Gertrude Beckette, Nelly
Boustead,Suzanne Jacobyand
Josephine Bracken
Julia, Miss L
Womanizer
UST- Leonor Valenzuela,Leonor Rivera,
Vicenta Ybardaloza (at the same time)
Rizals relationship with
women often ended
painfully for him.
Remained faithful to
Leonor Rivera even when
there are other desirable
women around him.
Leonor Riveras marriagehe felt like losing his mind
Was Rizal Deserving to be a Natl
Hero?
Rizal is not the only Natl hero of
the Philippines
Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Apolinario
Mabini,Marcelo H. del Pilar
Aguinaldo?
Apolinario Mabini- wrote La
Revolucion Filipina
Andres Bonifacio- Never won a
single fight
RIZAL ELEVATED TO
THE SUPERNATURAL
IGLESIA FILIPINA INDEPENDIENTE/PHILIPPINE
INDEPENDENT CHURCH
ISABELO DE LOS REYES, FOUNDER
- ADVOCATED THE CANONIZATION OF JOSE
RIZAL AND GOMBURZA.
IT WAS LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER THE
FOUNDATION WHEN THEY DECIDED TO
CANONIZE RIZAL
HE WAS AN EXPRESSION OF THE INTENSELY
NATIONALISTIC PHASE OF THE CHURCH
PRESENTLY, RIZAL IS NO LONGER HONORED
AS A SAINT
MILLINNARIAN GROUPS
VENERATED RIZAL AS A GOD OR
SUPERNATURAL BEING WITH
SUPERNATURAL POWERS
FORMATION WAS DUE TO A COMMON
BELIEF THAT THE WORLD WILL END AND A
MESSIAH WOULD ARRIVE TO REDEEM THE
WORLD.
ONLY BELIEVERS WOULD BE SAVED
CONSIDERED RIZAL AS A KRISTONG
TAGALOG OR TAGALOG CHRIST
APOLINARIO DE LA CRUZ
HERMANO PULE, FOUNDER OF
CONFRADIA DE SAN JOSE
PORTRAYED AS CHRIST-LIKE
WAS EXECUTED BY QUARTERING,
LIKE THE BIBLICAL LAMB
LIKE RIZAL, HE WAS UNJUSTLY
TRIED AND EXECUTED
ANTING-ANTING GROUPS
BELIEVED THAT RIZAL WOULD ONE RETURN
AS THE MESSIAH OF THE FILIPINOS
BELIEVED THAT THE PHILIPPINES WILL BE
THE NEW JERUSALEM
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SANTA IGLESIA
HEADED BY FELIPE SALVADOR, APO IPE
-FOUGHT WITH AMERICAN DURING 20TH
CENTURY
WAS CAPTURED AND SENTENCED TO DIE
BELIEVERS CLAIM THAT HE DID NOT DIE
AND WAS SEEN TALKING WITH RIZAL
SAMBAHANG RIZAL
-RIZAL CHRUCH EST. BY BASILIO
AROMIN IN CUYAPO, NUEVA ECIJA 1918.
-RIZAL WAS APPOINTED BY BATHALA TO
REDEEM THE FILIPINO RACE
BATHALISMO (INANG MAHIWAGA)
-VENENCIO P. WANGAN. FOUNDER
-DERIVED FROM BATHALA
MAN HAS 3 SPIRITS: CALULUUAINTELLIGENT SPIRIT
DIWA- SENSITIVE SPIRIT
LAGYO- SENSITIVE SOUL
-MAN MUST SAVE HIS SOUL TO REAP
HAPPINESS IN KALULUALHATIAN
- EVIL ONES CONDEMENED TO ETERNAL
PAIN IN CASANAAN WHICH WAS
INHABITED BY DEMONS
- RIZAL LIKENED TO CHRIST. CAME TO
THE WORLD TO TEACH REASON
- RIZAL VENERATED IN THE CHAPEL
WITH MAIN TABLE DRAPED IN THE
PHILIPPINE FLAG
- WAGAN, BELIEVE RIZAL INSTEAD OF
DYING, WENT TO CHINA AND
DISGUISED HIMSLEF AS A CHINESE
ADARNISTAS
ALSO KNOWN AS THE IGLESIANG
PILIPINA
FOUNDED BY CANDIDA BALANTAC,
INANG ADARNA
RIZAL IS THE GOD OF FILIPINO
PEOPLE
MAN HAS SOUL AND IS CAPABLE OF
GOOD DEEDS
4 PERSONS IN GOD
HEAVEN AND HELL EXISTS WITHIN US
SAGRADA FILIPINA SECT.
ALSO BELIEVES IN THE 4 PERSONS IN
GOD, EXCEPT GOD THE MOTHER IS NOT
THE VIRGIN MARY
RIZAL IS THE SECOND CHRIST
NO HELL, THE WORLD IS CONSIDERED
AS HELL
ONLY BORROWED THE SACRAMENT OF
BAPTISM
FOUNDED BY PURIFACION AND
SEVERO AVIELA
WATAWAT NG FILIPINA
LOCATED IN A HILL CALLED LECHERIA,
CALAMBA
EST. ARSENIO DE GUZMAN AND JOSE
BARICONOSA
BELIEVERS BELIEVED THAT DE GUZMAN WAS
RIZAL
BELIEVER BELIEVE THAT HE IS ALIVE IN NEW
JERUSALEM
WHEN 3RD WORLD WAR BREAKS OUT, RIZAL
WILL LEAD THE ARMY OF GOD
BELIEVES MAN HAS A SOUL BUT DIFFERENT
FROM RIZALS WHO THEY BELIEVE IS A GOD
OTHERS
COLORUMS OF SURIGAO BELIEVE
THAT RIZAL WOULD COME IN LARGE
SHIP AND CARRY ALL THE FAITHFUL
TO CEBU WHERE THEY WOULD
CELEBRATE VICTORY WITH CHRIST.
NO. 1 FACTOR: PATRIOTISM
SOME CULTS PAY HOMAGE TO RIZAL
EVERY RIZAL DAY AT THE LUNETA.
Rizal
from the
Various
Perspect
ives
CHAPTER 16
The Filipino
Hamlet
Casao, Elaine Andrea S.
Shakespearean Character
He predicts revolution but fears its coming
The slaves of today might be
the tyrants of tomorrow.
Was Rizal an
American-made
Hero?
Casao, Elaine Andrea S.
American-sponsored hero
The cult of Rizal
Historian Esteban de Ocampo
And now gentlemen, you must have a
national hero.
December 20, 1898
Day of Mourning for Jose Rizal and other
victims of the Philippine Revolution.
Daet, Camarines Norte
Morga , Noli Me Tangere, El
Filibusterismo
Dedicated to Rizal
The Knights of the Grand Order of Rizal
THE FOREIGN
VIEW OF RIZAL
People of other
countries saw
Rizal as an
inspiration and
a good example.
Southeast Asian
people saw Rizal
as an exemplar
of the Malayan
race.
Deputy Prime
Minister Anwar
Ibrahim (Malaysia
"As a national hero,
his courage was
exemplary. He was
also a man of letters.
He composed
beautiful words, that
are at the same time
subversive and
threatening to the
powerful
A renaissance
man
Rizals labors
inspired the
Philippines
Revolution which was
Asias first nationalist
movement for
Independence
Mohandas Gandhi
(India)-satyagraha, Sun
Yat-sen (China) are
among of the native
people who were
inspired by Rizal
Suehiro Techo
translated Noli Me
Tangere to Japanese.
During the Japanese
occupation in the
Philippines, the
Japans propaganda
outfit used Rizal to
encourage Filipino
collaboration.
In USA, Rizals Mi
Ultimo Adios was
quoted on the
walls of the US
Congress by
Representative
Henry Allen
Cooper to
convince
American
lawmakers that
Filipinos are not
barbarians and
Germany
Spain
Berlin has the Jose
Rizal Strasse in his
honor.
Madrid has the
replica of the
Luneta
monument.
ROMANIA
Rizal was
compared to
Romanias national
poet Mihai
Eminescu
A monument was
set-up in
Bucharest,
Romanias capital.
