Jose Rizal came face to face with tragedy when he found his brother Paciano distressed over the execution of their beloved Fr. Jose Burgos. During Rizal's two years at Ateneo, his mother was imprisoned for allegedly conspiring to poison her sister-in-law. She was later released after charming the Governor General with her dancing during a visit. At Ateneo, Rizal quickly rose to become "Emperor of Carthaginian" within his first month, as the school divided students into competing Roman and Carthaginian empires, and he received high marks and prizes for his academic success.
Jose Rizal came face to face with tragedy when he found his brother Paciano distressed over the execution of their beloved Fr. Jose Burgos. During Rizal's two years at Ateneo, his mother was imprisoned for allegedly conspiring to poison her sister-in-law. She was later released after charming the Governor General with her dancing during a visit. At Ateneo, Rizal quickly rose to become "Emperor of Carthaginian" within his first month, as the school divided students into competing Roman and Carthaginian empires, and he received high marks and prizes for his academic success.
Jose Rizal came face to face with tragedy when he found his brother Paciano distressed over the execution of their beloved Fr. Jose Burgos. During Rizal's two years at Ateneo, his mother was imprisoned for allegedly conspiring to poison her sister-in-law. She was later released after charming the Governor General with her dancing during a visit. At Ateneo, Rizal quickly rose to become "Emperor of Carthaginian" within his first month, as the school divided students into competing Roman and Carthaginian empires, and he received high marks and prizes for his academic success.
Jose Rizal came face to face with tragedy when he found his brother Paciano distressed over the execution of their beloved Fr. Jose Burgos. During Rizal's two years at Ateneo, his mother was imprisoned for allegedly conspiring to poison her sister-in-law. She was later released after charming the Governor General with her dancing during a visit. At Ateneo, Rizal quickly rose to become "Emperor of Carthaginian" within his first month, as the school divided students into competing Roman and Carthaginian empires, and he received high marks and prizes for his academic success.
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● JOSE RIZAL’S FORMATIVE YEARS
An Ignatian Legacy
After the execution of Fr. Burgos, Jose Rizal came face to face in an another tragedy when he found his brother Paciano distracted over the execution of the beloved Fr. Jose Burgos.
“What present can I give you, charming little dancer?”
“Who is this little girl’s mother? Set her free!”
Rizal’s Formative Years in Ateneo
During Jose’s two-year stay in Ateneo, his mother was imprisoned in Sta. Cruz. Doña Teodora allegedly conspired with her brother Jose Alberto to poison his wife. Then she was released for a reason that revealed more plainly than ever how little justice existed during that period. The Governor General, Rafael Izquierdo, happened to be visiting Calamba. Some little girls danced for his entertainment. One of them was so pretty and did her steps so charmingly that the Governor General called her to his side and said:
He began at the bottom of the school but within a month he became “Emperor of Carthaginian.” Ateneo had divided the students into two empires,” Roman and Carthaginian, to fight for academic supremacy. It was this war that soon brought young Rizal triumph and prizes. At the end of the first quarter, he received the grade “excellent.”
