Week 1 - Calamba at The Time of Rizal's Birth

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF

DR. JOSE P. RIZAL

RIZAL AND HIS
CHILDHOOD YEARS AT
CALAMBA
Calamba At The Time of Rizal’s Birth
❑ Calamba is an enchanted town (Palma)
❑ Situated between Laguna de Bay and Mt. Makiling
❑ The town is panoramic with its landscape
❑ An agricultural town at the time of Rizal’s birth
❑ Owned by the Dominican friars
▣ Became a prosperous town due to its specialization in
the production of sugar
▣ With its fertile soil and favourable climate, the people
were able to raise and harvest different kinds of crops
Birth of the Young Jose
❑ Born on June 19, 1861
▣ His mother nearly died during his delivery
owing to his very big head
▣ Three days after his birth, he was baptized by
Fr. Rufino Collantes at the Calamba Catholic
Church
❑ Fr. Pedro Casañas – his godfather
❑ The 7th child in the family of 11 children of
Don Francisco and Doña Teodora
❑ The children of the Rizal family in their birth
order were as follows: Saturnina; Paciano;
Narcisa; Olimpia; Lucia; Maria; Rizal;
Concepcion; Josefa; Trinidad; and Soledad
Rizal’s Ancestry
❑ Rizal came from a mixture of races
❑ Great grandfather from father side – Domingo
Lamco, a Chinese merchant who married Ines
dela Rosa
❑ In 1731, Lamco assumed the surname Mercado
in keeping with the gubernatorial decree of
Narciso Claveria
❑ Rizal’s grandfather from his father side – Juan
Mercado who married a Chinese-Filipino
mestiza, Cirila Alejandrino
Rizal’s Ancestry
❑ At one point, Juan Mercado became a gobernadorcillo
of Biñan, Laguna
❑ Juan and Cirila had 14 children, one of whom was
Rizal’s father, Don Francisco
❑ Rizal’s great grandfather on his
mother side – Manuel de Quintos who married Regina
Ursua
❑ One of their daughters, Brigida married Lorenzo
Alberto Alonso
❑ The couple had five siblings, one of them was Teodora,
Rizal’s mother
Rizal’s Immediate Family
❑ A typical middle class in the 19th century
❑ Lived a life of comfort and affluence, belonging to
the principalia class
❑ The affluence of Rizal’s family can be gleaned from
the following: family’s predilection for studies; stone
house of adobe and hardwood; ownership of
carriage and horses; home library with numerous
volumes of books; presence of personal servants;
private tutoring of the children
❑ Don Francisco was an educated man
❑ He took courses in Latin and Philosophy at the
Colegio de San Jose in Manila
❑ Later on became a tenant at the Dominican
hacienda in Calamba
❑ Rizal inherited from him a profound feeling of
dignity, self-respect, serenity and poise,
seriousness
❑ Doña Teodora completed her education at the
Colegio de Santa Rosa
❑ She is a disciplinarian, a woman of more than
average education, a woman of culture and
religion, a sacrificing and industrious
housewife
❑ From his mother, he learned the values of
warmth and virtue
❑ He also inherited a practical temperament,
stoicism, self-sacrifice, temperament of a
dreamer and fondness for poetry
Childhood Days and Memories
❑ Grew up a pious Catholic owing to the training
provided him by his mother
❑ At 3 yrs old, he learned to pray and even read the Bible
❑ Fr. Leoncio Lopez – parish priest of Calamba, who
made the young Rizal the need to develop a sound
philosophy of life; he also learned the value of
scholarship and intellectual honesty
❑ At age 4, he experienced his first sorrow
❑ He was a good observer, noting every detail of
what he actually saw
The Story of the Moth and the Flame
❑ Considered to be a biography of Rizal

❑ From the story, Rizal came to realize that one
has to sacrifice and to suffer the consequences
of one’s action for the attainment of a goal
Early Demonstration of Inborn Talents
❑ Rizal was intellectually gifted

❑ At 3, he was able to master the alphabet
❑ Showed great interest in reading as well as in
sketching, painting, sculpture and literature
The First Taste of Injustice
❑ As a young boy, Rizal witnessed his town
mates were tortured, treated rudely and
brutally by the Spanish officials and the
Guardia Civil
❑ The arrest and incarceration of his mother in
1871 due to he alleged complicity in the
attempted murder of his uncle’s unfaithful wife
– opened his eyes to the injustice of the regime
❑ Doña Teodora was arrested and made to walk
a distance of 50 km from Calamba to the capital
of Laguna, which was then Sta. Cruz
❑ She was jailed for almost 2 and one-half years
❑ She was freed by Gov-Gen. Izquierdo as a
result of the request of the young Soledad,
whose graceful dancing charmed the general
and his visitors
❑ Martyrdom of Gomburza – greatly influenced
Rizal’s goal and life work
❑ Rizal was 11 yrs old when he remembered this
event as a young boy to redeem the oppressed
Filipinos
❑ It narrated the execution of the 3 Filipino
priests who made a crusade for justice in the
parochial administration in the Philippines
Preparations for Formal Schooling
❑ Rizal’s first teacher was his mother
❑ His 1st private tutor was Maestro Celestino,
followed by Maestro Lucas Padua, and the 3rd
was Leon Monroy – who honed his skills in
reading, writing and the rudiments of Latin
❑ Rizal was trained to become a middle-class
intellectual or illustrado
❑ He was subjected to education under private
tutors; then sent to secondary school; and went
to a university for a college degree; and
completed studies in Europe

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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF

DR. JOSE P. RIZAL

❑ Considered to be a biography of Rizal

❑ Rizal was intellectually gifted

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