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    CHAPTER 3

    RIZAL’S LIFE:
    FAMILY, CHILDHOOD, and EARLY
    EDUCATION

    BALINTAY, MICAELA ROSE Z.


    BERNABE, LAWRA MAE E.
    ECLEO, DIANNE S.
    SEBAROTIN, APRYL ANN
    LESSON 1: Rizal-Mercado Family

    DR. JOSE PROTACIO MERCADO RIZAL Y ALONZO REALONDA


    Doctor- completed his medical course in Spain and was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine
    by the Universidad Central de Madrid

    Jose- was chosen by his mother who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph)

    Protacio- from Gervacio P. which come from a Christian calendar

    Mercado- adopted in 1731 by Domigo Lamco (the paternal great-great Grandfather of Jose Rizal) which
    the Spanish term mercado means ‘market’ in English

    Rizal- from the word ‘Ricial’ in Spanish means a field where wheat, cut while still Green, sprouts again

    Y- and

    Alonzo- old surname of his mother

    Realonda- it was used by Doña Teodora from the surname of her godmother based on the culture by that
    time
    The Rizal’s is considered one of the biggest families during
    their time. Domingo Lam-co, the family's paternal ascendant
    was a full-blooded Chinese who came to the Philippines from
    Amoy, China in the closing years of the 17th century and
    married a Chinese half-breed by the name of Ines de la Rosa.
    Researchers revealed that the Mercado-Rizal family had also
    traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and Even Negrito blood
    aside from Chinese. Jose Rizal came from a 13-member family
    consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora
    Alonso Realonda, and nine sisters and one brother.
    PARENT’S OF RIZAL
    Francisco Mercado (1818-1898)
    Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13
    offspring of Juan and Cirila Mercado. Studied in San Jose
    College, Manila; and died in Manila.
    Born in Biñan, Laguna on May 11, 1818
    Studied Latin and Philosophy at the College of San Jose in
    Manila
    Became a tenant-farmer of the Dominican-owned hacienda
    A hardy and independent-minded man, who talked less and
    worked more, and was strong in body and valiant in spirit
    Died in Manila on January 5, 1898 at the age of 80
    Rizal affectionately called him “a model of fathers”
    :
    Teodora Alonso (1827-1911)

    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 1911 in Manila.
    SIBLINGS OF
    RIZAL
    Saturnina Rizal Mercado de Hidalgo, 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.

    SATURNINA RIZAL MERCADO DE HIDALGO


    1850-1913
    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.
     Immortalized him in Rizal’s first novel Noli Me Tangere as
    the wise Pilosopo Tasio
     Rizal regarded him as the “most noble of Filipinos”
     became a combat general in the Philippine Revolution
     died on April 13, 1930, an old bachelor aged 79
     dad two children by his mistress (Severina Decena)—a boy
    and a girl

    PACIANO RIZAL
    1851-1930
    Sisa’ was the third child in the family, a
    teacher and musician. Like Saturnina,
    Narcisa helped in financing Rizal’s
    studies in Europe, even pawning her
    jewelry and peddling her clothes if
    needed. It is said she could recite from
    memory almost all of the poems of the
    national hero.

    NARCISA RIZAL
    1852-1939
    The fourth child. Married Silvestre
    Ubaldo; a telegraph operator from
    Manila died in 1887 from
    childbirth.

    OLYMPIA RIZAL
    1855-1887
    Was married to Mariano Herbosa of Calamba.
    When her husband died in the cholera epidemic
    in 1889, he was denied a Christian burial
    because he was the brother-in-law of Dr. Jose
    Rizal. She sent her two sons, Estanislao and
    Teodisio to be educated in the school Jose Rizal
    established in Dapital during his exile

    LUCIA RIZAL
    (1857-1919)
    The sixth child in the family. It was to her
    whom Jose talked about wanting to marry
    Josephine Bracken when most of the Rizal
    family was apparently not amenable to the idea.
    Jose had also brought up to Maria his plan of
    establishing a Filipino colony in North British
    Borneo. Wife of Daniel Faustino Cruz.

    MARIA RIZAL
    1859-1945
    A Filipino nationalist and polymath during
    the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of
    the Philippines. He is tagged as the national
    hero of the Filipino people. The second son
    and the seventh child. He was executed by
    the Spaniards on December 30, 1896.

    JOSE RIZAL
    1861- 1939
    Also called ‘Concha’ by her siblings, was the eight child of
    the Rizal family. She died at the age of three. Of his sisters, it
    is said that Pepe loved most the little Concha who was a year
    younger than him. When Concha died of sickness in 1865,
    Jose mournfully wept at losing her. He later wrote in his
    memoir, “When I was four years old, I lost my little sister
    Concha, and then for the first time I shed tears caused by
    love and grief.”

    CONCEPCION RIZAL
    1862-1865
    Also called Panggoy, was the ninth child in the family
    who died a spinster. In Jose Rizal's letter to his sister,
    Jose praised her for nearly mastering the English
    language. Jose also wrote about the 20 pesos he sent, the
    10 pesos of the amount was supposed for a lottery ticket.
    This indicates that Jose did not stop ‘investing’ in lottery
    tickets despite winning 6, 200 pesos in September the
    previous year. After Jose’s death, the epileptic Josefa
    joined the Katipunan.

    JOSEFA RIZAL
    1865-1945
    ALSO KNOWS AS Trining’, was the
    tenth child and the custodian of Rizal’s
    last and greatest poem, "Mi Ultimo
    Adios."

    TRINIDAD RIZAL
    1868-1951
    The youngest child married
    Pantaleon Quintero.

    SOLEDAD RIZAL
    1870-1925

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