Calamba (El Pueblo)

-A hacienda town belonging to the Dominican order, a picturesque nestling on a verdant plain covered
with irrigated rice fields and sugar lands.

- 1876 (15 y/o), Rizal wrote Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town)

Teodora Alonso Realonda

(1826-1911)

- "a woman of more than ordinary culture..." - Jose Rizal

- Born in Manila (8th November)

- Colegio de Santa Rosa

- has refined culture, literary talent, business ability, and fortitude

- died in Manila (16 August)

Francisco Mercado Rizal

(1818-1898)

- "a model of fathers" - Jose Rizal

- boring in Binan, Laguna (11 May)

- Latin and Philosophy (Colegio de San Juan, Manila?

- tenant-farmer of a Dominican owned hacienda in Calamba

- hardy independent minded, string in body, valiant in spirit

-died in Manila (5 January)