DR.

JOSE RIZAL
His name is Jose' Protacio Rizal
Mercado Y Alonso Realonda.He
was born, june 19, 1861, in
Calamba, Laguna and is the
seventh child of Francisco
Mercado and Teodora Alonzo
His desire to learn, even
Rizal studied at the Ateneo, a
frequenting the church nearby
private high school, and then
his home to watch and observe
to the University of St. Thomas
people but not to be religiously
in Manila. He did his post
graduate work at the
inclined. Jose Rizal was not a
University of Madrid in 1882. physically blessed or strong
For the next five years, he child however, he had a strong
wandered through Europe will guided and taught by his
discussing politics wherever he mother, his first teacher.
went.
Propaganda Movement,
reform and national
He traveled to consciousness movement that
Spain in 1882 to arose among young Filipino
complete gis expatriates in the late 19th
medical degree and century. Although its adherents
become world - expressed loyalty to the
renowned Spanish colonial government,
opthalmologist Spanish authorities harshly
during his time repressed the movement and
executed its most prominent
member, José Rizal.
He was on board ship when
On December 26, 1896, the
the 1896 Revolution outbreak
military court tried Jose Rizal
took place, and so was sent
and later found him guilty of
instead to Barcelona, Spain for
rebellion, sedition, and
imprisonment. Eventually, he
conspiracy. The Spanish
was returned to Manila for
authorities believed that
trial and later execution in
Rizal's writings “fatally and
that year.
necessarily” incited the
rebellion which, by 1896, had
He was executed in Bagumbayan, already become a revolution.
now called Luneta, in Manila on
December 30, 1896. But his death
meant much more for the Filipinos.
It sparked the revolution in the
country against the Spanish
government, which ruled Las Islas
Filipinas (now the Philippines)
from 1565 to 1898. Rizal inspired
the nation to be born.

Jose Rizal is considered as on of

the most influential Filipinos in
history. He was the one who
initiated to take the first few
steps toward the Philippines
freedom and sovereignty.

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