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Rizal’s Life:
Family,
Childhood, and
Early Education
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y
Alonzo Realonda
• Known to a “child of a good
family”
• Jose was born on June 19, 1861
• Calamba, Laguna (between 11 or
12 at night)
• He was the seventh of eleventh
children, the younger of two boys
and with nine sisters all in all
• June 22, 1861 - he was baptized in the
Catholic church in Calamba, Laguna.
• Father Rufino Collantes - The parish
priest who baptized RIza. He told them
“Take good acre of this child, for
someday he will become a great man”.
• Father Pedro Casanas - Rizal’s
godfather, and close friend of the Rizal
Family.
• Died on December 30, 1896
• A physician and a man of letters
WHO IS DOMINGO LAM-CO?
● Rizal Family’s Paternal Ascendant
● A full-blooded Chinese form Amoy,
China
● Lamco is orginally from Amoy,
China who came to the Philippines
in the mid-17th century and
married a half-Chinede Inez de la
Rosa
RIZAL-MERCADO FAMILY
 FRANCISCO MERCADO (1818-
1898)
The father of Jose Rizal who was the
youngest of 13 off springs of Juan and Cirila
Mercado, Born in Binan, Laguna on May 11,
1818; studeied in San Jose College, Manila; and
died in Manila on January 5, 1898, at the
age of 80. Rizal affectionately called him “a
model of fathers”
Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y
Alejandro
- A prosperous landowner
 TEODORA ALONSO (1827-1913)
The mother of Jose Rizal who was the
second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de
Quintos, Studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa.
She was born in Manila on November 8,
1826. Dona Teodora died in Manila on
August 16, 1911, at the age of 85. Shortly
before her death, the Philippine government
offered her a life pension. She courteously
rejected it saying, “My family has never been
patriotic for money. If the government has
plenty of funds and does not know what to
do with them, better reduce the taxes.”
Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quinto
- a business-minded woman, courteous, religious,
hard working and well-read.
- One of the most highly educated women in the
Philippine that time.
- A gifted woman with insights in literature, art,
music, and other forms of Filipino culture
- A fine mathematician, gournet cook, interior
decorator, collectore of fine books
- Was of Ilocano-Tagalog-Chinese-Spanish descent
God Blessed the marriage of Francisco Mercado and Donya
Teodora with 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls)
1. Saturnina (1850-1913) - oldest of the Rizal children, nicknamed

Neneng; she married Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batangas.
2. Paciano (1851-1930) - older brother and confident of Jose Rizal;
after his younger brother’s execution, he joines the Philippines
Revolution and became a combat general; after the Revolution, he
retired to his farm in Los Banos, where he lived as a gentleman
farmer and died on April 13, 1930, an old bachelor aged 79. He had
two children bt his mistress (Severina Decena) - a boy and a girl.
3. Narcisa ( 1852-1939) - her pet name was Sisa
and she married Antonio Lopez (nephew of Father
Leoncio Lopez), a school teacher of Morong.
4. Olimpia (1855-1887) - Ypia was her pet name,
she married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator
from Manila.
5. Lucia (1857-1919) - She married Mariano Hebosa
of Calamba, who was a nephew of father Casanas.
herbosa died of cholera in 1889 and was denied
Christian burial because he was a brother-in-law of Dr.
Rizal
6. Maria (1859-1945) - Biang was her nickname;
she married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Binan, Laguna.
7. JOSE (1861-1896) - the greatest Filipino hero and peerless
genius; his nickname was Pepe; during his exile in Dapitan he lived
with Josephine Bracken, Irish girl from Hongkong; he has a son by
her, but this baby-boy dided a few hours after birth; Rizal name
him “Francisco” after his father and buried him in Dapitan.
8. Concepcion (1862-1865) - her pet name was Concha; she
died of sickness at the age of 3, her death was Rizal’s first sorrow
in life.
9. Josefa (1865-1945) - her pet name was Panggoy; she died an
old maid at the age of 80.
10. Trinidad (1868-1951) - Trining was her pet name; she died
also an old maid in 1951 aged 83.
11. Soledad (1870-1929) - youngest of the Rizal children; her
pet name was Choleng; she married Pantaleon Quintero of
Calamba.
THE RIZAL FAMILY
• They belong to the middle class or principalia class or
creoles class
• They had a large 2-storey stone house
• They had a vast private library home of 1,000 and
more books
• They owned a carriage and horses
• All of them were educated in Manila and still their
parents could afford to hire private tutor
EARLY
CHILDHOOD IN
CALAMBA LAGUNA
IN CALAMBA LAGUNA
19 June 1861 - JOSE RIZAL, the seventh child of Francisco
Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quintos, was born in
Calamba, Laguna.
22 June 1861 - He was baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at

the Catholic of Calamba by the parish priest Rev. Rufino
Collantes with Rev. Pedro Casañas as the sponsor.
28 September 1862 - The parochial church of Calamba and the

canonical books, including the book in which Rizal's baptismal
records were entered, were burned.
IN CALAMBA LAGUNA
1864 - Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabeth
from his mother.
1865 - When he was four years old, his sister Conception,

the eight child in the Rizal family, died at the age of three.
It was on this occasion that Rizal remembered having
shed real tears for the first time.
IN CALAMBA LAGUNA
1865 - 1867 - During this time his mother taught him how to read
and write. His father hired a classmate by the name of Leon Monroy who,
for five months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the rudiments of
Latin. At about this time two of his mother's cousin frequented Calamba.
Uncle Manuel Alberto, seeing Rizal frail in body, concerned himself with
the physical development of his young nephew and taught the latter love
for the open air and developed in him a great admiration for the beauty of
nature, while Uncle Gregorio, a scholar, instilled into the mind of the boy
love for education. He advised Rizal: "Work hard and perform every task
very carefully; learn to be swift as well as thorough; be independent in
thinking and make visual pictures of everything."
IN CALAMBA LAGUNA
6 June 1868 - With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to
fulfill the vow made by his mother to take the child to the Shrine of the
Virgin of Antipolo should she and her child survive the ordeal of delivery
which nearly caused his mother's life.
From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina
who was at the time studying in the La Concordia College in Sta.
Ana.
1869 - At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem entitled "Sa Aking
Mga Kabata." The poem was written in tagalog and had for its theme
"Love of One's Language."
IN CALAMBA LAGUNA
The house of Rizal family,
where the hero was born, was
one of the distinguished stone
houses in Calamba during the
Spanish times, It was a two-
story building rectangular in
shape, built of adobe stones and
hard-woods, and roofed with
red tiles.
RIZAL
CHILDHOOD
MEMORIES
RIZAL CHILDHOOD
MEMORIES
• His parents employed an aya (nurse maid) who looked
after his comfort. His aya told him a lot of stories about
the fairies, asuang, the nuno and the tikbalang.
• Another childhood memory was the daily praying
Angelus. By nightfall, Rizal related, his mother gathered
all the children at their altar to pray the Angelus.
• Another memory of Rizal's infancy the nocturnal walk.
• Un Cuerdo A Mi Pueblo ( In Memory of My Town) - a
poem about Rizal's beloved town written by Rizal in
1876 when he was 15 years old and was student an the
Ateneo de Manila.
• The death of little Concha brought Rizal his first sorrow.
• At the age of three, he began to join religious
processions, novena in the church.
• At the age of five, he was able to read the Spanish bible
with the help of his mother.
• At the age of five, Rizal began to make sketches
with his pencil and to mold in clay and wax
objects which attracted his fancy.
• Sa Aking Mga Kabata (To My Fellow
Children) - Rizal's first poem in native language
at the age of eight, it reveals Rizal's earliest
nationalist sentiment.
EARLY
EDUCATION
(IN BINAN AND CALAMBA)
FIRST TEACHER (CALAMBA)
 Dona Teodora
 Maestro Celestino
 Maestro Lucas Padua
 Maestro leon Monroy
The Hero's First Teacher
• Doña Teodora was Jose's first non-formal teacher
• On her lap, Jose learned prayers and the alphabet at the age of
three
Private Tutors of Rizal

• Maestro Celestino was Jose's first private tutor
• Maestro Lucas Padua was the second private tutor
• Maestro Leon Monroy became the hero's tutor in Spanish
and Latin. He was a classmate of Don Francisco.
The Uncles of Rizal
• Uncle Jose Alberto - gave wise
direction in the studies of Jose
(sketching, sculpture and
painting)
• Uncle Gregorio - instilled into
the mind of Jose the love for
education The Uncles of Rizal
(reading) Jose Alberto
"Work hard and perform every task very carefully; learn
to be swift as well as thorough; be independent in
thinking; and make visual pictures of everything."
- Uncle Gregorio
• Uncle Manuel Alberto - seeing Jose was frail in nature,
concerned himself with the physical development of his
nephew (martial arts)
• He also taught Jose the love for open air and admiration
for the beauty of nature
Jose Goes to Biñan
• Don Leon died five months later and Jose
was sent to a private school called Justiniano
Aquino Cruz in Biñan.
• June 1869 - Jose goes to Biñan with Paciano
• Carromata - the mode of transportation
• Aunt's house - where Jose lodged
First Day in School
• Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz - formal teacher
• Rizal described Maestro Justiniano as tall, thin,
long-necked, sharp-nosed, with a body slightly bent
forward
• Rizal mentiones that Maestro Cruz “knew by heart
the grammars by Nebrija and Gainza”
• The school was in Maestro Justiniano's house
First School Brawl
• Pedro (the teacher's son) - wrestling, which he won
• Andres Salandanan - arm wrestling, where he lost
Painting Lessons in Biñan

* Old Juancho - freely gave Jose painting lessons
* Jose Rizal and his classmate Jose Guevarra became
apprentices of Old Juancho
Daily Life in Biñan Jose's daily routine
* Hears mass at 4 a.m. or studies lesson before
going to mass
* Goes to orchard to look for mabolo to eat
* Breakfast
* Goes to class at 10 a.m.
* Lunch break
* Goes back to school at 2 p.m.
* Goes home at 5 p.m.
* Prays with cousins
* Studies lessons, then draws a little
* Has supper
* Prays again Daily Life in Biñan
* Plays in the street if moon is bright
* Sleeps
Best Student in School
• Jose surpassed his classmates in Spanish, Latin and other
subjects
• His older classmates were jealous and squealed to the teacher
whenever he had fights
• Jose usually received five or six blows while laid out on a bench
End of Biñan Schooling
• December 17, 1870 - Jose left Biñan
• Talim - the steamer that Jose rode
• Arturo Camps - a Frenchman and a friend of Don Francisco, he
took care of Jose during the trip
Heard Some Disgusting Events (1872)
• Execution of GOMBURZA
• Mother’s imprisonment
Martyrdom of GOMBURZA
• January 20, 1872 - Cavite mutiny
• February 17, 1872 - Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose
Burgos and Jacinto Zamora were implicated and
executed
• The GOMBURZA were leaders of the
secularization movement
• The martyrdom of the three priests
inspired Rizal to fight the evils of Spanish
tyranny
• In 1891, Rizal dedicated his second novel
El Filibusterismo to GOMBURZA
Injustice to the Hero's Mother
• In 1872, Doña Teodora was arrested on a malicious
charge that she aided his brother Jose Alberto in trying
to poison his wife
• Jose Alberto planned to divorce his wife because of her
infidelity
• Jose Alberto's wife connived with the Spanish
lieutenant of the Guardia Civil and filed a case against
Rizal's mother
• Antonio Vivencio del Rosario - gobernadorcillo of
Calamba, helped the lieutenant arrest Doña Teodora
• 50 Kilometers - Dona Teodora was made to walk from
Calamba to the Provincial prison in Santa Cruz
• Don Francisco de Marcaida & Don
Manuel Mazano - most famous lawyers of
Manila, defended Doña Teodora in court:
• After 2 ½ years - the Royal Audiencia
acquitted Doña Teodora
THANK YOU!
MEMBERS:
Kimberly Genoso
Reymar Marasigan
Jovelyn Mirando
Andrei David
Angelica Pelobello
Kenneth Evangelista
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Rizal’s Life:

1. Saturnina (1850-1913) - oldest of the Rizal children, nicknamed

22 June 1861 - He was baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at

28 September 1862 - The parochial church of Calamba and the

1865 - When he was four years old, his sister Conception,

Private Tutors of Rizal

Painting Lessons in Biñan

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