Rizal and His Childhood

years at Calamba
 Calamba at the time of Rizal

 Calamba is an Enchanted town.

 The town is panoramic with its landscape.
 Nature has lavished this town with all its tender
caresses.

 Calamba became a prosperous town due to its

specialization in the production of SUGAR.
Rizal’s Family
 Birth of the young Jose Rizal

 Jose was born on June 19, 1861.

 Baptized by Father Rufino Collantes at the Calamba
Catholic Church
 Godfather Father Pedro Casañas
 Rizal was the 7th child of Dona Teodora Alonso and Don
Francisco.
 Rizal’s Ancestry
Rizal came from a mixture races.

Paternal Side
Domingo Lamco married Ines dela Rosa.
Juan Mercado married Cirila Alejandrino.
Juan and Cirila had 14 Children.
Don Francisco
 Rizal’s Ancestry

 Maternal Side

 Manuel de Quintos married to Regina Ursua

 Brigida de Quntos married to Lorenzo Alberto
Alonso
 Brigida and Lorenzo had 5 siblings.
 Doña Teodora
Siblings Of Jose Rizal
 Jose was the 7th of 11 children and younger of the
two boys.
 Saturnina – oldest, married to Mabuel Hidalgo and
Published Pascual H. Poblete tagalog transalation of
Noli Me Tangere.
 Paciano – oldest boy, 10 years older than Jose, a
Major General in the Revolutonary Army.
 Narcisa – Known as Sisa and can recite from
memory all the poems of Jose
 Olympia – married to Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph
operator in Manila.
 Lucia – Married to Mariano Herbosa who died in
Cholera and was denied a Christian burial.
 Maria – Married to Daniel Faustino Cruz, the only sister
of Rizal who lived upto 1950’s.
 Jose – Our national hero
 Conception – known as Concha who died at the age of
3.
Josefa – a spinster

Trinidad – also a spinster

Soledad – youngest and married

to Pantaleon Quintero. Studied at
La Concordia College where she
and Leonor Rivera were
 Rizal’s Immediate Family
 Rizal’s father, Don Francisco Mercado an educated man.
 Took courses in Latin and Philosophy in Colegio de San
Jose.
 Honest, Frugality, and Industrious.
 Dona Teodora, Rizal’s Mother was an educated man.
 Colegio de Santa Rosa.
 Disciplinarian,
a woman of more than average education,
woman of culture and religion, sacrificing and industrious
wife.
 Childhood Days and Memories

He grew up as a pious catholic owing to training

provided him by his mother.

Atthe age of 4 Rizal experienced his first sorrow

when his younger sister Conception died.
 The story of the Moth and the Flame

 One of the stories Rizal never forgot, narrated by his mother.

 Illusion for the search of light.
 Considered as the Rizal’s biography.
 Rizaldied a martyr in the search of the lights of truth,
freedom, and justice.
 Rizalrealize that one has to sacrifice and suffer the
consequence of one’s attainment of a goal.
 Rizal was able to write his first poem when he was eights years old
Entitled “To My Fellow Children”.
 The poem is clearly reveals that during his tender years he had a
concept of NATIONALISM.

 Rizal’s first taste of Injustice

 The arrest and incarceration of his mother in 1871.

 Jose Alberto
 Imprisoned for 2 and half years.
 Freed by Governor-general Izquerdo.
 Rizal was 11 years old when the execution of GOMBURZA.
 Preparations for Formal Schooling

Rizal first teacher was his mother.

Rizal first private tutor was Maestro Celestino,
followed by Maestro Lucas Padua.
Third tutor was Leon Monroy skills in writing,
reading and the rudiments of Latin were honed.
Rizal was trained to become
Illustrado.

= Subject to education under

private tutor.
= sent to a private school
= went to university
= completed studies in europe
 Formal Schooling at a Village School
 Rizal moves to Biñan
 Paciano accompanied Rizal to the Village School.
 Maestro Justiniano Cruz
 Pedro
 Barbarous
 School should be a playground of mind not a torture of
punishment.
 Rizal return to Calamba on Decemebr 17, 1870 on
board of steamship Talim.
Paciano
“Every pain gives a lesson and every
lesson changes a person”
-Anonymous