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Submitted by:
IRNA MAE C. JAVINES
BSBA 4-A
Submitted to:
MRS. ESTELLA TADUYO
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.
(1868-1951) or Trining was the tenth child and the custodian of Rizals
last and greatest poem.
In March 1886, Jose wrote to Trining describing how the German women
were serious in studying. He thus advised her: now that you are still
young and you have time to learn, it is necessary that you study by
reading and reading attentively. Perhaps sensing that studying is not
Trinidads thing, Jose continued, It is a pity that you allow yourself to
be dominated by laziness when it takes so little effort to shake it
off. It is enough to form only the habit of study and later
everything goes by itself. Four years later, Trining surprised Jose by
writing him, Dearest Brother: I left the College two years, one
month and a half ago.
Right before Joses execution, Trinidad and their mother visited him in the
Fort Santiago prison cell. As they were leaving, Jose handed over to Trining
an alcohol cooking stove, a gift from the Pardo de Taveras, whispering to
her in a language which the guards could not understand, There is
something in it. That something was Rizals elegy now known as Mi
Ultimo Adios.Like Josefa and two nieces, Trinidad joined the Katipunan
after Rizals death.
In 1883, Trining was in bed for five months, from April to August, being
sick with intermittent feverthat kind which rises and falls and then
returns, occurring in diseases such as malaria. Astonishingly however, she
was the last of the family to die.
Also called Choleng, Soledad Rizal (1870-1929) was the youngest child
of the Rizal family. Being a teacher, she was arguably the best educated
among Rizals sisters.
Rizal rebuked her sister for getting married to Pantaleon Quintero of
Calamba without their parents consent. Because of you, he wrote,
the peace of our family has been disturbed.If you have a
sweetheart, behave towards him nobly and with dignity, instead
of resorting to secret meetings and conversations which do
nothing but lower a woman's worth in the eyes of a man You
should value more, esteem more your honor and you will be more
esteemed and valued. Concerning men who woo without the
knowledge of the womans parents, Rizal commented, Men
should be noble and worthy and behave like men and not like
thieves or adventurers who hide themselves. You should despise a
man who is afraid to come out in the open. Without directly
mentioning Soledads spouse, her kuya further said, I have despised
and considered unworthy of me any young man that I have seen
hiding and fleeing between shadows.
As regards obeying ones parents, Jose lectured Concha, Parents would
not wish to see their children unhappy. The continuation of
Joses homily reads, I enjoin you to consider the gray hair of our
parents; they were already very old and we should sow with glory
their old days. Think of your honor and of ours. You have many
nieces; give them a good example and be worthy of yourselves.
Without a doubt, Choleng had been scolded once by her older brother
(napagalitannikuya!). But recent controversial story insinuates that Jose
was not Conchas brother but her uncle (MgaLihim ng Pamilyani Rizal).
Submitted by:
LERMA M. REMOROSA
BSBA 4-A
Submitted to:
MRS. ESTELLA TADUYO
FRANCISCO MERCADO
TEODORA ALONZO