MARK ADRIAN ENCILAY

GE 9/ SECTION BU
Assignment 6: Rizal family, childhood memories and early education

 The ties of love and companionship bound the Rizal children together. Their parents instilled in
them the importance of loving and helping one another.
 There were other children born in the Philippines at the time Jose Rizal was born in Calamba,
but only one boy, Jose Rizal, rose to fame and greatness.
 Jose Rizal enjoyed going to church; he was so devout that he was jokingly referred to as Manong
Jose the hermanos and hermanas Terceras.
 Because of environmental influences such as the beauty of Calamba and the Rizal family's
beautiful garden, Jose Rizal's inborn artistic and literary talents were stimulated.
 Jose Rizal has learned or can be said to have inherited all of his family's beautiful aspects and
traits.
 Jose Rizal's family's sorrows, such as the death of his sister Concha in 1865 and the
imprisonment of his mother in 1871-74, compelled him to fortify his character. The execution of
GOMBURZA in 1872 reawakened his patriotism and inspired him to dedicate his life and talents
to the redemption of his oppressed people.
 Her mother, a remarkable woman of good character and fine culture, was one of Jose Rizal's
teachers.
 Governador General Izquierdo ordered the execution of fathers GOMBURZA (Gomez, Burgos,
and Zamora) at sunrise on February 17, 1872.
 Jose Rizal dedicated his second novel, El Filibustirismo, to Gom-Bur-Za in 1891.
 Before June of 1872, tragedy struck the Rizal family when Jose Rizal's mother was arrested on
the malicious charge that she and her brother attempted to poison the latter's perfidious wife.
 Jose Rizal was the first member of his family to take the surname "Rizal" because their surname
"Mercado" had raised the suspicions of Spanish authorities.
 The Ateneo's Jesuit System of Education was more advanced than that of other colleges. That
they shaped their students' personalities through strict discipline and religious instruction.
 Jose Rizal was named the brightest student in his Ateneo class, and he received a prize as a
result. He was overjoyed because it was his first prize at the Ateneo.
 Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez, a great educator and scholar for whom Rizal had the highest
affection and respect, was one of Jose Rizal's best professors.
 Jose Rizal excelled in all of his subjects during his final year at Ateneo, and he was the most
brilliant. As an Atenean of his time, he was dubbed "the pride of the Jesuits."
 Rizal's first romance was with Segunda Katigbag, a lovely fourteen-year-old Batanguena from
Lipa, when he was sixteen years old.