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Rizal's portrait of his eldest sister, or Saturnina Rizal-Hidalgo, which he painted when he was
about 17 years old and is probably his only existing portrait in oil. Neneng stood as the hero's
second mother, who financially supported his brother's education in Europe.
3. Narcisa Rizal:
Narcisa married Antonio Lopez who was a teacher and musician from Morong, Rizal. While her
brother underwent exile in Dapitan, Mindanao, Narcisa and her family upheld a consistent
exchange of letters, offering whatever support within their means.
5. Lucia Rizal
She married Mariano Herbosa of Calamba, Laguna. Charged of inciting the Calamba townsfolk
not to pay land rent and causing unrest, the couple was once ordered to be deported along with
some Rizal family members.
Lucia’s husband Mariano died during the cholera epidemic in May 1889. He was refused a
Catholic burial for not going to confession since his marriage to Lucia. In Jose’s article in La
Solidaridad entitled Una profanacion(‘A Profanation’), he scornfully attacked the friars for
declining to bury in ‘sacred ground’
6. Maria Rizal
It was to her whom Jose talked about wanting to marry Josephine Bracken when the majority of
the Rizal family was apparently not amenable to the idea. In his letter dated December 12, 1891,
Jose had also brought up to Maria his plan of establishing a Filipino colony in North British
Borneo.
7. Jose Rizal
8. Concepcion Rizal (1862-1865)
She died at the age of three. Of his sisters, it is said that Pepe loved most the little Concha
who was a year younger than him.
9. Concepcion Rizal
was the eight child of the Rizal family. She died at the age of three.
10. Josefa Rizal - Josefa was said to have suffered from epilepsy. SINGLE
She breaks both stereotypes of woman and handicap, and was elected as the president of the
Katipunan's Women Chapter, where she took on the appellation “Sumikat.” Also a convert to
Freemasonry, she promoted ideas of liberalism through the Logia de Adopcion.