PART 1 (1-10)

Jos Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonzo y 1.) Realonda

June 19, 1861--December 30, 1896
National hero of the 2.)Philippines
Alternate name: Jos Rizal
Place of birth: Calamba, Laguna, Philippines
Place of death: Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park), Manila, Philippines
Major organizations: 3.)Propaganda movement and La Liga Filipina
Jos Rizal was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in
the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered a national hero and the
anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated as a Philippine holiday called 4.)Rizal Day.
Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a martyr of the Philippine Revolution.
The seventh of eleven children born to a middle class family in the town of 5.) Calamba Laguna,
Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree sobresaliente.
He enrolled in the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and the
University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and then traveled alone to Madrid,
Spain where he studied medicine at the 6.) Universidad Central de Madrid, earning the degree of
Licentiate in Medicine. He attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the
the University of Heidelberg. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in at least ten languages. He was a
prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his
two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These are social commentaries on the
Philippines that formed the nucleus of literature that inspired dissent among peaceful reformists
and spurred the militancy of armed revolutionaries against 333 years of Spanish rule.
As a political figure, Rizal was the founder of 7.)La Liga Filipina a civic organization that
subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led by Bonifacio and Aguinaldo. He was a proponent
of institutional reforms by peaceful means rather than by violent revolution. The general
consensus among Rizal scholars, however, attributed his martyred death as the catalyst that
precipitated the Philippine Revolution.
Jos Rizal's parents were 8.) Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo, prosperous farmers who
were granted lease of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. He was the
seventh child of their eleven children (namely, Saturnina, Paciano, Narcisa, Olympia, Lucia,
Maria, Jose, Concepcion, Josephina, Trinidad and Soledad.)
Rizal as a student at the University of Santo Tomas, first studied under the tutelage of Justiniano
Aquino Cruz in Bian, Laguna. He was sent to Manila and upon enrolling at the Ateneo
Municipal, changed his name to "Rizal" to escape the opprobrium of the name "Mercado". His
brother Paciano had been linked to the 3 Filipino priests 9.) Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and
Jacinto Zamora who had been tried as subversives and sentenced to death by garrote. He
received his Bachelor of Arts in 1877 and graduated as one of the nine students declared
sobresaliente or outstanding. He continued his education at the Ateneo Municipal to obtain a
land surveyor and assessor's degree, and at the same time at the University of Santo Tomas
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters where he studied Philosophy and Letters. Upon learning that
his mother was going blind, he decided to study medicine specializing in ophthalmology at the
University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery but did not complete the program
claiming discrimination made by the Spanish Dominican friars against the Filipino students.
Without his parents' knowledge and consent, but secretly supported by his brother 10.)Paciano
Rizal, he traveled alone to Madrid in May 1882 and studied medicine at the Universidad Central
de Madrid where he earned the degree, Licentiate in Medicine. . .
The teaching of Jose Rizals life, works, and writings is mandated by Republic Act 1425,
otherwise known as the Rizal Law. 11.) Senator Jose P. Laurel, the person who sponsored the
said law, said that since Rizal was the founder of Philippine nationalism and has contributed
much to the current standing of this nation, it is only right that the youth as well as all the people
in the country know about and learn to imbibe the great ideals for which he died. The Rizal Law,
enacted in 1956, seeks to accomplish the following goals:
1. To rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and nationalism, for which our heroes
lived and died
2. To pay tribute to our national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino
character
3. To gain an inspiring source of patriotism through the study of Rizals life, works, and writings.
PART 2
Rizals Famous Quotations are the following:

"Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika, daig pa ang hayop at malansang isda."
"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish."
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field
without becoming a part of any edifice."
"While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty."
"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves."
"Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan."
"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his
destination."
"The youth is the hope of our future."
What to do:
Give at least 10 Famous Poems of Rizal.
The Last Poem of Rizal
Memories of My town
To the Philippine Youth
My last thought
Education gives luster to motherland
A tribute to my Town
Child Jesus
A poem that has no title
To The Philippines
First Inspiration
My Retreat
Goodbye Leonor
Song of the Wandered
Our Mother Tongue