CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

IN CALAMBA
 At 15 years old and a student of
Ateneo de Manila, he wrote a
poem Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo
( In Memory of My Town)
 English translation was translated

by Dr. Frank C. Laubach

 Boyhood memories are playing in

the garden while he watch to

birds
 Gathered during nightfall and
pray the Angelus
 Maid would threat him about

aswang and tikbalang when he

didn’t like the food served
 First bitter memory is when little

Concepcion died at three years

old.
 Take part in family prayers at

the age of three

 Fulfill his mother’s vows in a
pilgrimage to Antipolo, first
experience on a lake voyage
 Age of three Rizal learned alphabet

from his mother

 Manuel, his uncle, an athletic man

develop him physically

 Uncle Gregorio taught the value of

rapidity on work, think for himself,

observe carefully
 Nine years old, Rizal is sent to
Biñan to study Latin under
Maestro Joaquin Antonio Cruz
 Usually wore sinamay shirt woven

by Batangueñas
 Left Biñan on December 7,1871
 Learned painting in Biñan in the

shop of an old painter named

Juancho
 Excelled in all subjects in Biñan
especially Latin and Spanish
languages
 Doña Teodora was arrested on a

malicious charge that she aided his

brother Jose Alberto, in trying to
poison Alberto’s wife
 The judge order Doña Toedora to

sent to provincial jail in Sta.Cruz,

Laguna’s capital instead in Calamba
 Doña Teodora was forced to walk
on foot under scorching heat of
the sun from Calamba to Sta. Cruz
 Rizal was 11 years old when

execution of GOMBURZA
happened
 At the age of 8, Rizal wrote a

poem entitled Sa Aking Mga

Kabata (To My Fellow Children)