Lesson 2 Ged 103

TOPIC:JOSE RIZAL’S GENALOGY AND EARLY EDUCATION

The Ancestry Clan

The Marty -national hero

--Jose Protacio Realonda Alons Mercado Rizal,” known to a child of a god family”
-he was born o June 19, 1861 betwe n el ven o’clock and twelv o’clock at night
- The Rizal f mily was large one

- Austin Craig acounted tha Rizal’s father’s family began in the Philippines with a
Chinamen
- Domingo Lam-Co; the family’s paternal scendant was ful -b o de Chines who
migrated to he Philippines from Amoy
- China in the late 17 th Century
-There were also traces of Japanes, Spanish, Malay and some Negro ancestry in the
grandmother, Domingo Lam-Co’s wife, Ines de la Rosa

-Ther was the son of prosperous landowner, sugar nd rice planter, of Chines -
Filipino descent
–Francis o Mercado Y Chinco, who ap arently owed his surname to he Chines
custom of looking for the apropiate meaning.
--Sangley, the name throughout al the Phil p ines for Chinamen, sign fies
“traveling traders.”
-- Mercado was used for trader

- Francis o Mercado was born in Biňan lived to be eighty years old, the youngest in
the family of there siblings:
--seven men and six women, alternating in the follwing order : Petrona, Gabino,
Potencian , Leoncio, Tomas , Casimiro, Basilla, Gabriel, Fausta, Julian, Cornelio,
Gregori , and Franciso.

-The parents of these thirteen siblings were Captain Juan Mercado, who had be n the
Gobernadorcillo r Mayor f Biňan, and Cirala Alejandra, daughter of Maria Guiňo.

-Juan Mercado was the orde of the two brothers- Juan mercado Clemente- son of
Francisco Mercado and Bernarda Monicha.

-Jose Rizal’s father was ducated farmer with studies in Latin and philosphy at the
Colegio de San Jose in Manila.
-Early in his adult ife h moved to Cal mba nd becamea tenant farmer.
-He attained a degree of wealth, established a fine library and cultivated
friends among the fria s and Spanish government officials.

-The name Francisco was name held in highonor in Laguna for it had belonged to a
famous sea captain who given theENCONMIENDA OF BAY

-Mrs. Teodora Alonso , mother of Jose Rizal, was second among the children
--( Narcisa, Teodora, Gregori , Manuel and Jose)
-of Mrs. Brigsda de Quintos, daughter of Mr. Manuel De Quintos of a well known
family in Pangasinan and Regina Ursua of the Ursua family.

- The siblings of Brigida De Quintos wer Joaquina, Jose Soler, and Mari Victoria.
-Regina Ursua was the daughter of Mr. Eugenio Ursua nd Benigna
- Her brothers wer Father Alejandro, Jose Ursua nd Benito Ursua and Pio Ursua
-Teodora Alonso was one of the highly educated women
-She was born on November 9, 1827, andd ied on Aug st 16, 19 1 at he advanced age
of 84.
-she ii one of the most masterful commands of spanish

The Name
Jose Protacio Realonda Alons Rizal Mercado

Jose- was chosen by his mother who was devote of the Christian saint San Jose
(St.Joseph)

Protacio- was taken from St. Protacio, who were very properly was marty.That
Filipino priest baptized him and a secular Archbishop confirmed him seem fitting.

Rizal- the name was dapted in 1850 by authority of the Royal Decree of 1849, upon
the order of Governo Narciso Claveria.

Rizal was shorten d form of Spanish word for “second crop,” seemed suited to a
family of armers who were making a second star in a new home.

Alonzo- old surname of his mother·

Y-and-Realonda- it was used by Doña Teodora from the surname of her godmother
based on the culture by tha time

Mercado- adopted in 1731 by Domigo Lamco (the paternal great-great grandfather of

Jose Rizal) which the Spanish term ercado means ‘market’ in English

The Siblings Jose was the seventh of eleven children; the younger of two boys.

FRANCISCO MERCADO (1818 -189 )

-Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13 of springs of Juan d Cirila
Mercado. Born in Biñan, Laguna on April 18, 18 ; studie in San Jose College,
Manila; and died in Manila

TEODORA ALONSO (1827-1913)

-Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de
Quintos.
- She studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa.
- She was a business-minded woman, courteous, religious,
hard-working and well-read.
- She was born in Santa Cruz, Manila on November 14, 1827 and
died in 1913 in Manila.

SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913)

-Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel
Timoteo Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas.

PACIANO RIZAL (1851-1930)

- Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San
Jose College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine
Revolution.

NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939)

-The third child. married Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a
teacher and musician.

OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887)

-The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from
childbirth.

LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919)

-The fifth child. Married Matriano Herbosa.

MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945)

-The sixth child. Married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna.

JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)

-The second son and the seventh child.
-He was executed by the Spaniards on December 30,1896.

CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865)

-The eight child.
-Died at the age of three.

JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945)

-The ninth child. An epileptic, died a spinster.

TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951)

- The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last of the family to
die

SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929)

-The youngest child married Pantaleon Quintero

Early Education

Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan.

-It was a typical schooling that a son of an ilustrado family received during his
time.
characterized by the four R’s-
1. reading
2.writing
3.arithmetic
4.religion

-Despite the defects of the Spanish system of elementary education, Rizal was able
to acquire the necessaryinstruction preparatory for college work in Manila.

It may be said that Rizal, who was born a

-physical weakling
- rose to become an intellectual giant
-the outmoded and backward system of instruction

The Hero’s First Teacher

-The first teacher of Rizal was his mother, who was a remarkable woman of
goodcharacter and fine culture.
-On her lap, he learned at the age of three the alphabet and the prayers.
"My mother," wrote Rizal in his student memoirs, "taught me how to read and to say
haltingly the humble prayers which I raised fervently to God."

-As tutor, Doña Teodora was patient, conscientious, and understanding.

- It was she who first discovered that her son had a talent for poetry
- she encouraged him to write poems.

 As Jose grew older, his parents employed private tutors to give him lessons at
home.

 The first was Maestro Celestino and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua. Later, an
old man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of Rizal’s father, became the boy’s
tutor. This old teacher lived at the Rizal home and instructed Jose in Spanish and
Latin. Unfortunately, he did not lived long. He died five months later.

 After a Monroy’s death, the hero’s parents decided to send their gifted son to a
private school in Biñan.

The Early Religious Formation

 Young Rizal was a religious boy. A scion of a Catholic clan, born and bred in a
wholesome atmosphere of Catholicism, and possessed of an inborn spirit, Rizal grew
up agood Catholic.

 At the age of 3, he began to take part in the family prayers. When he was five
years old,
-he was able to read haltingly the family bible.

 He loved to go to church to pray, to take part in novenas, and to join the

religiousprocessions. It is said that he was so seriously devout that he was
laughingly called
-Manong Jose by the Hermanos and Hermanas Terceras.

 One of the men he esteemed and respected in Calamba during his boyhood was
thescholarly Father Leoncio Lopez, the town priest.

 On June 6, 1868, Jose and his father left for Calamba to go on a pilgrimage to
Antipolo,in order to fulfill his mother’s vow which was made when Rizal was born.

 It was the first trip of Jose across Laguna de Bay and his pilgrimage to
Antipolo.

 He was thrilled, as a typical boy should, by his first lake voyage. He did not
sleep the whole night as the casco sailed towards the Pasig River because he was
awed by “ the magnificence of the watery expanse and the silence of the night.

 After praying at the shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo, Jose and his father went
to Manila.

The Early Religious Writings and Experiences

-Rizal’s devotion to the Mother and Son were further manifested when he wrote
during his Ateneo days two separate religious poems.

-One was titled “Al Niňo Jesus” (To the Child Jesus), and the other was “ A La
Virgen Maria” ( To the Virgin Mary).

-The first poem, an Ode to Jesus, which was written in 1875, was short and
considered of eight verse only, which based on Spanish poetry standard must have
influenced
- Rizal, may be calssified as octava real. Translated by the late Hon. Leon Ma.
Guerero.

-The other religious poem addressed to the Virgin Mary appears to be a sonnet. Its
last three lines remind one of the hymn, “Mother of Christ” in the Baclaran church
novena.

-he composed a poem entitled “ Alianza intima la religion y la educacion” ( An

Intimate Alliance of Religion and Education) in which Rizal expressed the
importance of religion in education and to him, education without God is not true
education.

The Inspiration of the parable of the Moth

-The greatest influence on Rizal’s development as a person was

his mother Teodora Alonso.

-It was she who opened his eyes and heart to the world around
him—with all its soul and poetry, as well as its bigotry and injustice.

-Doňa Teodora scolded Jose and told him that if he will not adhere to the advice of
his parents or old people for that matter
- he will be like the moth that burned itself in the fire

The parable
-told that the young moth was attracted to the flame, and thought that it could
conquer it, it pushed itself to the burning flame and got burned. -The moth died a
martyr in its own illusion, he truly thought he conquered the burning flame, but it
was not.

Rizal
-He gained inspiration from the parable, that it is not impossible to
conquer insurmountable odds and be martyr in reality but never in illusion.
-This was what he didas he grew in age and in wisdom.