Rizal’s Life ;

Childhood
d a y s in
Calamba
 Calamba, the Hero’s Town
• Calamba was an hacienda town which belonged
to the Dominican Order.

• Covered with irrigated rice fields and sugar-

lands.

• A few kilometers to the south looms is the

legendary Mount Makiling.
• Beyond this mountain is the province of
Batangas.

• East of the town is the Laguna de Bay.

• In the middle lake towers is the storied

island of Talim and beyond it towards
north is the distant Antipolo, famous
mountain shrine of the miraculous Lady
of Peace and Good Voyage.
 Laguna de

Bay

Batangas
• Jose’s childhood was full of joy and
meaningful memories.
• He was amiable, thoughtful, and loving
person.
• His mother was his first teacher who taught
him how to pray, read, and write.
• He wrote a poem regarding his hometown Un
Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo.
Jose’s Childhood
Experiences • His father built him a
small nipa hut.
• He was also served an
Aya to attend him.
• He and his Aya shared a lot
of stories about folklores,
myths, legends.
• He also experience playing
alone and just watch the
birds singing on the trees.
 Jose’s Childhood
Experiences
• Jose also enjoyed doing some
drawings about animals.
• He had a pony (alipato) that he used
in visiting some sceneries in his place
in Lecheria village.
• He is used to mold clays and made
little animals-like.
• He liked to have a night walk together
with his black dog Usman (Berganza).
 Lecheria (named from the
Spanish term “leche” or milk)
because it was the town center
for milk produced from goat and
cows at that time upon his elder
brother Paciano’s advice to
exercise there and drink milk to
make him fit.
 E a r l i E s t Childhood
mEmoriEs.
• The first memory of Rizal, in his
infancy, was his happy days in
the family garden.

• Because he was frail, sickly, and

undersized child, he was given
the most tender care by his
parents.
Jose’s Childhood Experiences
• June 6, 1868 - He considered his trip to Antipolo to
be one of the happiest moments he had

• His first trip to Manila was to visit her sister

Saturnina in La Concordia College in Sta. Ana

• At 8, Jose wrote a poem about his fellow children

entitled "Sa Aking mga Kababata.“
• Jose Rizal, just like Filipino boys,
had many beautiful memories of
childhood.
• He had a happy home, filled
parental affection, impregnated with
with
• Another childhood memory was the
daily Angelus prayer.

• By nightfall, Rizal related, his mother

gathered all the children at the house
to pray the Angelus.
• They affectionately called their father
Tatay, and mother Nanay.

• Jose was jokingly called Ute by his

brother and sisters. The people in
Calamba knew him as Pepe or Pepito.

• Of his sisters, Jose loved most little

Concha (Concepcion).
 The Hero’ sFirst
Sorrow
• The Rizal children bound
were
together by the ties of an
love
companionship. d

• Their parents taught them to love one

another, to behave properly in front
of elders, to be truthful and religious,
and to help one another.
• Unfortunately, Concha died of sickness in
1865 when he was 3 years old.

• He was one year older than Concha.

• He played with her, and from her,

he learned the sweetness of brotherly
love.

• Jose, who was very fond of her,

cried bitterly to lose her.
 Devoted Son of
Church
• 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 a good 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
religious processions.
• It is said that he was so seriously
devouted that he was laughingly
called Manong Jose by the Hermanos
and Hermanas Terceras.

• One of the men he esteemed

respecte in Calamba during and
d was the scholarly Fathe
his
boyhoodLopez, the town
Leoncio r
priest.
Father
Leonci
o
Lopez
 Artistic Talents
• Since early childhood Rizal revealed
his god-given talents for the arts.

• He drew sketches and pictures on his

books of his sisters, for which
reason he was scolded by his
mother.
• He carved figures animals and
of persons out of
wood.
• Even before he learned to read, he
could already sketch pictures of
birds, flowers, fruits, rivers,
mountains, animals and persons.

• Jose had a soul of a genuine artist.

• Rather an introvert child, with a
skinny physique and sad dark eyes,
he found great joy looking at the
blooming flowers, the ripening fruits,
the dancing waves of the lake, and
the milky clouds in the sky; and the
listening to the songs of the birds,
the chirpings of the cicadas, and the
murmurings of the breezes.
• The first known poem that he
wrote was a Tagalog poem entitled
Sa Aking Mga Kababata (To My
Fellow Children).
Sa Aking mga Kabata

Unang Tula ni Rizal. Sa edad 8, isunulat ni Rizal ang una niyang tula ng isinulat sa
katutubong wika at pinamagatang "SA AKING MGA KABATA". 

Kapagka ang baya’y sadyang umiibig

Sa langit salitang kaloob ng langit
Sanlang kalayaan nasa ring masapi

Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid

Pagka’t ang salita’y isang kahatulan
Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian

At ang isang tao’y katulad, kabagay

Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan.
Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita
Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda

Kaya ang marapat pagyamanin kusa

Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala
Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin,

Sa Ingles, Kastila, at salitang anghel,

Sapagkat ang Poong maalam tumingin
Ang siyang naggagawad, nagbibigay sa atin.
Ang salita nati’y tulad din sa iba
 First Education
from Mother
• Jose’s first teacher was his mother.

• At the age of 3, Jose learned the

alphabet and prayers from her.

• Seeing Rizal had a talent for poetry, she

encouraged him to write poems. She
gave her all her love and all that she
learned in college.
 The Story of
the Moth
• Of the story told by Dona Teodora to
Jose, it was that of the young moth
made the profoundest impression on
him.

• The tragic fate of the young moth,

left a deep impress on Rizal’s mind.