• He died in Manila on January

Rizal Life: Family and 5, 1898, at the age of 80.

Childhood Education
Doña Teodora Alonzo
RIZAL’S ANCESTRY Realonda
Domingo Lamco • Born: November 8, 1826, in
Ines dela Rosa Manila. She was educated at the
College of Santa Rosa, Manila
Francisco Mercado
Cirila Bernacha
• first teacher of the hero

Juan Mercado
Siblings of rizal
Cirila Alejandro
1st - Saturnina
Francisco mercado (rizal’s father) • Oldest
• Neneng
• Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanauan
Batangas
Eugenio Ursua • 1850-1913
Benigna
2nd - Paciano
Teodora Alonzo realonda
Manuel De Quintos (rizal’s
Regina Ursua
mother) • Older brother
• Joined Philippine Revolution;
Dr. Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal
Lorenzo Alonzo
Brigida de Quintos combat general
Alonzo Y Realonda • Gentleman farmer
 19th June 1861 between • An old bachelor, 79
11:00-12:00midnight
• 1851-1930
 Lakeshore Town of
Calamba, Laguna
 muy bonito 3rd – Narcisa
 Fr. Rufino Collantes - • Sisa
officiate the christening • Antonio Lopez nephew of Fr.
ceremony (June 22, 1861. Leoncio Lopez, school teacher
 Fr. Pedro Casanas- Rizal’s of Morong
godfather
 Lieutenant-General Jose 4th – Olimpia
Lemery - governor-general • (1855-1887)
when Rizal was born. • Ypia
• Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph
Francisco Mercado Rizal operator from Manila.
• Father: Born: May 11, 1818,
Binan Laguna. 5th – Lucia
• He studied Latin and • (1857 – 1919)
Philosophy at the College of San • Mariano Herbosa of Calamba
Jose, Manila.
 The Childhood years in
6th – Maria Calamba
• (1859-1945)
• Biang was her nickname and ● The place Calamba was
married Daniel Faustino Cruz of named after a big native jar.
Binan, Laguna. Calamba was a hacienda town
which belonged to the
7th – Jose/Pepe Dominican Order, which also
owned all the lands around it.
8th – Concepcion ● The Un Recuerdo A Mi
• (1862-1865) her pet name was Pueblo (In Memory of My
Concha; Town) - a poem about Rizal’s
• she died of sickness at the age beloved town written by Rizal in
of 3; 1876 when he was 15 years old
• her death was Rizal’s first and was student in the Ateneo de
sorrow in life. Manila.

● The first memory of Rizal, in

th
9 – Josefa his infancy, was his happy days
in the family garden when he
• (1865-1945) her pet name was was three years old.
Panggoy;
● By nightfall, Rizal related, his
• she died an old maid at the age mother gathered all the children
of 80. at the house to pray the Angelus.

● Another memory of Rizal’s

infancy was the nocturnal walk
10th – Trinidad in the town, especially when
• (1868-1951) Trining was her there was a moon.
pet name; ● The death of little Concha
• she died also an old maid in brought Rizal his first sorrow
1951 aged 83. and at the age of three, Rizal
began to take a part in the family
11th – Soledad prayers

• (1870-1929) Youngest of the ● When Rizal was five years

Rizal children;
• her pet name was Choleng;
• She married Panteleon
Quintero of Calamba.
old, he was able to read haltingly
the Spanish family bible.
● The Story of the Moth -
made the profoundest
impression on Rizal - “died a
martyr to its illusions”.
● At the age of five, Rizal began
to make sketches with his pencil
and to mold in clay and wax
objects which attracted his
fancy.
● “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” (To
My Fellow Children) is Rizal’s
first poem in native language at
the age of eight and it reveals
Rizal’s earliest nationalist
sentiment.
Paciano. Jose lodged at his
aunt's house in Binan.
● Rizal's school in Binan was in
the house of his teacher,
Maestro Justiniano Aquino
Cruz.
● Pedro, the teacher's son, was
not very fond of Jose. He bullied
Rizal, and this led to Jose's first
school brawl.

● At the age of eight, Rizal ● Furthermore, Jose also took

wrote his first dramatic work painting lessons in Binan, and
which was a Tagalog comedy. was taught by an old painter
named Juancho, his school
teacher's father-in-law.

The Education of rizal ● He was the best student in

● During the time of Rizal,
education was characterized by
the 4Rs: reading, writing,
arithmetic, and religion.
school, beating all the Binan
boys and his schooling in Binan
lasted for a year and a half.

● Jose Rizal, although he was

born a physical weakling,
became an intellectual giant. His
first teacher was his mother and
at the age of 3, Rizal learned to
recite the alphabet and prayers.

● Jose had private tutors to teach

him lessons at home: Maestro

Celestino, then Maestro Lucas

Padua. Leon Monroy, who as a
former classmate of Jose's
father, taught the young boy
Spanish and Latin.

● When Leon Monroy died,

Jose's parents decided to send
him to a private school in Binan.

● When Jose left for Binan, he

was accompanied by his brother