Princess Aimee R.

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RIZALS FAMILY & LOVE

AFFAIRS.

Birth of Rizal

Rizal's parents chose the name "Jose" because of Doa Teodora's devotion to San
Jos. The second name Protasio was derived from the birthday of the saint, the same
day Rizal was born.

Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861

I was born in Calamba on 19 June, 1861, between eleven and twelve midnight, a few
days before full moon. It was a Wednesday and my coming out in the vale of tears would
have cost my mother and her life had she not vowed to the Virgin of Antipolo to take me
to her sanctuary by the way of Pilgrimage, Rizal recounted in his memoirs.
Three days after his birth, Rizal was baptized by Father Rufino Collantes at the
Calamba Catholic Church, with Father Pedro Casanas as his grandfather.
Take good care of this child, for someday he will become a great man. according to
Father Rufino

Rizal was the 7th child in the family of 11 children of Don Francisco and Dona
Teodora.

Francisco Mercado (18181898)

Born on May 11,1818 and died 1898. Was the youngest of the 13
children of Cirila Alejandro and Juan Mercado. He was born in Binan,
Laguna.. He belonged on the 4rth generation of Domingo Lam-co, a
Chinese immigrant in the late 1600s.
Married Teodora Alonso Realonda De Quintos, a manilena who
came from a well known family. They were gifted with 11 children.
Juan Mercado died when Francisco Mercado was 8 years old. Since
the lost of his father his mother took care of him, he helped his
widowed mother in running their business. He studied Latin and
philosophy at the Coleglo de San Jose in Manila. This was where he
met his wife.
He raised his family by rented lands from the Dominican Order. From
that land they produced rice, corns and sugarcane. They even had
poultry in their backyard
He then passed away in Manila on January 5 1898.

Teodora Alonso (182719130)

Born in Santa Cruz, Manila on November 14,1827 and died in 1913 in

Manila. Mother of Jose Rizal who was second child of Lorenzo Alonso and
Bariji de Quintos, she studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a
business-minded women, courteous, religious, hard-working and well-read.
Lorenzo was a capitan-municipal of Binan, Laguna a representative in the
Spanish Cortes, a Knight of the Order of Isabela the Catholic and a surveyor
by profession. Bariji was an educated house wife who attended to her
familys needs. In accordance to the decree issued by Governor-General
Narciso Clavera in 1849 their family adopted the surname Relonda come
from an able family.
Known for being a disciplinarian as well as dedicated, courteous and
hardworking mother.
Teodora had her formal education at the Colegio de Santa Rose in manila
just like her mother, she was well educated and highly cultured and had
knowledge in literature and mathematics.
As the young Rizal's first teacher, she had a profound influence on his
development and was his inspiration in taking up medicine.

Saturnina Rizal (1850-1913)

Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Born 1850, Calamba Laguna and
died in 1913.
Married Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo a native and one of the richest persons of
Tanaun, Batangas. Together, they had five children: Alfredo, Adela,
Abelardo, Amelia, and Augusto. She died at the age of 63.
She was known as Neneng.
Amelia died in 1888. Her body was not immediately buried according to
Saturninas letter to Rizal on September 6 1890, explaining that their
persecutors tried to prevent the body from entering the church. Only Alfredo
and Adela were married and had children.
Alfredo married Aurora Tiaoqui' with whom he had 3 children, Angel,
Armando and Lourdes. The eldest grandson, Angel was connected to Jose
Rizal National Centennial Commission. He later went on to teach English at
the Far Eastern University in the Philippines. Armando was married to Elsa
Villaroman and together were blessed with 6 children: Cecilia, Raul, Alfonso,
Carmela, Manuel and Albert. Lourdes remained unmarried.
Adela, on the other hand, married Jose Ver and had 5 children: Jose Jr.,
Bernardino, Emma, Purisima and Aurora.

Paciano Rizal (1851-1930)

Second child, Born March 9, 1851 in Calamba, Laguna. Died April 13, 1930
Studied at Jose College in Manila, and became a farmer and alter a general of the Philippine
Revolution.
As Nick Joaquin would say Without Paciano to back him up its doubtful that Rizal would have
gotten as far as he reached.
He helped his parents choose Rizals tutors and later acted as Jose guardian in school.
He helped Rizal go to Europe in 1882 and was the one who told their parents about Jose
departures. For 5 years he sent his borhter monthly pension of 50 pesos, later 35 pesos. He also
constantly updated his brother about what was going on with their family and in the country
through letters.
He studied under Maestro Justiniano Cruz before attending the Colegio de San Jose in manila.
While in the city he lived and worked for Fr. Jose A Burgos, who earned the ire of the Spanish
friars by campaigning for the secularization movement.
He was prohibited from taking his final exams because of his known closeness with burgos and
his outspokenness against friar abuse. Later on landed trouble with the religious corporations in
Colombia caused his exile in Mindoro.
He collected financial contributions to help sustain the propaganda movement. He also supported
the katipunan by recruiting members in Laguna, 1896 he was arrested and tortured because he
refused to sign documents that could incriminate his brother and connect hi to the revolution.

Narcisa Rizal (1852-1939)

October 29, 1852

Death:
Died June 24, 1939
a teacher and a musician by profession, was the third child of Francisco Mercado and Teodora
Alonzo.
She married Antonio Lopez who was a school teacher in Morong, Rizal. They had nine children
Emilio, Anglica, Isabel, Consuelo, Leoncio, Francisco, Arsenio, Antonio and Fidela.

Olympia Rizal (1855-1887)

Birthdate: 1855 Death: Died August 1887

Fourth Child, Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from childbirth

Lucia Rizal (1857-1919)

Birthdate:1857 Death: Died 1919

Fifth child, she 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 2
sons Estanislao and Teodisio to the educated school in Jose Rizal
established in Dapital during his exile.
Lucia shared a tight knitted brother-sister relationship with Rizal and Pepe,
as the family fondly called him. She was on the of the first of the Rizal
sisters to marry along with Narcisa.
Rizal and Lucia would have a collection of letters to portray a rather casual
and sometimes humorous exchange of stories between them. The letters
were mostly their condition in Calamba and how much the Mercado family
and Herbosa family missed him since he went away to study abroad.
November 13 1883, she told him that she deeply regretted not being able to
say goodbye to her brother, she also mentioned how she was pregnant with
her 5th child. She also mentioned she wanted her son to inherit her brothers
brilliance, diligence in good work and disposition.

Maria Rizal (1859-1945)

Birthday 1895 death: 1945

Sixth child, married Danie Faustino Cruz of Binan Laguna.

Conception Rizal (18621865)

Eighth child, died at the age of 3 due to an illness. also known as Concha.
As an older brother Jose, who was four at the time in 1865 grieved bitterly. He recalled having
cried so hard for the first time due to love and sorrw for their loss. According to him

Till then I had shed tears only for my own faults which my loving, prudent mother well knew how to
correct.

Josefa Rizal (1865-1945)

Birthday 1865-1945
Ninth child, an epileptic died a spinster.
His parents where strict parents. They believed in the maxim spare the rod and spoil
the child
The rizal family heard mass every sundays and Christian holidays. At home they
practice the angelus and the rosary. After every family prayer, all their siblings kissed
the hands of their parents. Josefa or Panggoy had epilepsy, a common chronic
neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are translent signs or
symptoms of abnormal excessive or hypersychronous activity in the brain. Due to
lack of medical resources to cure her illness during that time, she became a spinster
(an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.)
She died at the age of 80

Trinidad Rizal (1868-1951)

Also died as a spinster and the last of the family to die.

Trinidad was a prominent member of the goroup. Her lifes work including
those as a member of the Women of Malolos, cemented her own place in
the Philippine history. Trinidad freedom. This drive earned her a prominent
role in the Philippine feminist movement and ultimately the history og Gota
de Leche itseld.
1905 Rizal joined the farsighted leader conception felix, and other educated
women to form Asociacion Feminist Filipina, a progressive organization
dedicated to the welfare of women and minors with a special focus on infant
mortality.
This led in turn to the distribution system of the pasteurized cows milk and
the formulation of maternal nutrition and education programs as its first
activities.
Rizals work shaped and strengthen the organization such as Gota de Leche
asiciacion feminist Filipina and La Proteccion de La Infancia.

Soledad Rizal (1870-1929)

Was the youngest sister of Rizal who later married Panteleon Quintero, a native of Calamba,
Laguna. Together they had 5 children.

RIZAL LOVE AFFAIRS

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 and Josephine
Bracken. These women might have been
beguiled by his intelligence, charm and wit.

Segunda Katigbak and Leonor Valenzuela

Segunda Katigbak and Leonor Valenzuela

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

O Sei San
O Sei San, a Japanese samurais daughter
taught Rizal the Japanese art of painting
known as su-mie. 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 Spanish legation there offered
him a lucrative job.

Gertrude Beckett
While Rizal was in London annotating the
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, he boarded
in the house of the Beckett family, within
walking distance of the British Museum.
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

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. In a
party held by Filipinos in Madrid, a drunken Antonio Luna uttered unsavory
remarks against Nellie Boustead. This prompted Rizal to challenge Luna
into a duel. Fortunately, Luna apologized to Rizal, thus averting tragedy for
the compatriots.

Their love affair unfortunately did not end in marriage. It failed because Rizal
refused to be converted to the Protestant faith, as Nellie demanded and
Nellies mother did not like a physician without enough paying clientele to be
a son-in-law. The lovers, however, parted as good friends when Rizal left
Europe.

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.

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.

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.