EARLY CHILDHOOD

AND GENECOLOGY OF
JOSE P. RIZAL
 THE BIRTH OF A HERO

José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda

Known as Dr. Jose P. Rizal

 He was born on June 19, 1861, on the night of a Wednesday at
the town of Calamba, Laguna
 Baptized in the Catholic church of his town on June 22, 1861 by Fr.
Rufino Collantes ; his godfather was Fr. Pedro Casanas.
 28 September 1862

The parochial church of Calamba and the canonical books, including

the book in which Rizal’s baptismal records were entered, were
burned.
 1864

Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet from his mother
 1865

When he was four years old, his sister Conception, the 8th child in the
Rizal family, died at the age of three. It was on this occasion that
Rizal remembered having shed real tears for the first time.
 1865 1867

During this time his mother taught him how to read and write. His
father hired a classmate by the name of Leon Monroy, who for five
months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the rudiments of Latin.
At about this time two of his mother’s cousin frequented Calamba.
Uncle Manuel Alberto, seeing Rizal frail in body, concerned himself
with the physical development of his young nephew, and taught the
latter love for the open air and developed in him a great admiration
He advised Rizal:
“ Work hard and perform every task very carefully learn to be swift
as well as through; be independent in thinking and make visual
pictures of everything”
 June 6 1868
With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to fulfill the vow
made by his mother to take the child to the Shrine of the Virgin of
Antipolo should she and her child survive the ordeal of delivery
which nearly caused his mother’s life.
From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina
who was at the time studing in the La Concordia College in Sta. Ana
 1869
At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem entitled “Sa Aking Mga
Kabata”. The poem was written in tagalog and has for its theme “
Love of One”
 THE MERCADO – RIZAL FAMILY
 The Rizals is considered one of the biggest families during
their time. Domingo Lam-co, the family's paternal ascendant
was a full-blooded Chinese who came to the Philippines from
Amoy, China in the closing years of the 17th century and
married a Chinese half-breed by the name of Ines de la Rosa.
 Researchers revealed that the Mercado-Rizal family had also
traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and Even Negrito blood
aside from Chinese.
 Jose Rizal came from a 13-member family consisting of his
parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora Alonso Realonda,
and nine sisters and one brother.
 RIZAL’S PARENTS

Francisco Mercado Rizal

Born on May 11, 1818 in Biñan, Laguna
He studied Latin and Philosophy at the College of San Jose in
Manila.
He died in Manila on January 5, 1898, at the age of 80

Teodora Alonso Realonda

Born on November 8, 1826 in Manila
Educated at the College of Santa Rosa, a well-known college
for
girls in the city.
Died in Manila on August 16, 1911
1) Saturnina Rizal (1850-1913) - Eldest child of the Rizal-
Alonso marriege. Married Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo of
Tanauan, Batangas
2) Paciano Rizal (1851-1930) - Only brother of Jose Rizal
and the second child, Studied at San Jose College in
Manila became a farmer and later a general of the
Philippine Revolution.
3) Narcisa Rizal (1855-1887) – The third child, married to
Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a teacher and musician
4) Olympia Rizal(1855-1887) – The fourth child, married
Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from childbirth
5) Lucia Rizal (1857-1919) - The fifth child, married to
Matriano Herbosa
6) Maria Rizal (1859-1945) - The sixth child, married Daniel
Faustino Cruz of Binan, Laguna
7) Jose Rizal (1861-1896) - The second son and the seventh child.
He was executed by the Spaniards on December 30, 1896

8) Concepcion Rizal (1862-1865) - The eight child. Died at the age

of three

9) Josefa Rizal (1865-1945) - The ninth child, An epileptic, died a

spinster

10) Trinidad Rizal (1868-1951) - The tenth child, died a spinster and
the last of the family to die.

11) Soledad Rizal (1870-1929) - The youngest child married

Pantaleon Quintero
 RIZAL’ S ANCESTRY
 Domingo Laméo – a Chinese immigrant from the Fukien city of
Changchow. He is Rizal’s great-great-grandfather. He arrived in
Manila
about 1690. He married a well-to-do Chinese Christian girl of Manila
named Ines de la Rosa, then assumed Mercado as his surname in
1731.

Francisco Mercado – son of Domingo and Ines, great-grandfather

of
Rizal. He married a Chinese-Filipino mestiza, Cirila Bernacha, and
was
elected governadorcillo of Biñan.
 RIZAL’ S ANCESTRY
 Juan Mercado – one of Francisco’s and Cirila’s sons,
grandfather of Rizal.Married Cirila Alejandro, a Chinese-Filipino
mestiza. Like his father, he was elected governadorcillo of
Biñan.

Francisco Mercado – Rizal’s father. The youngest of thirteen

children of Juan and Cirila. At the age of eight he lost his
father. He met and fell in love with Teodora Alonso Realonda in
Manila while studying. They got married on June 28, 1848
 RIZAL’ S ANCESTRY
 Lakandula – the last native king of Tondo. He is a believed
ancestor of Doña
Teodora’s family.
 Eugenio Ursua – Rizal’s great-great-grandfather from his
mother’s side. He was of Japanese ancestry. He married a
Filipina named Benigna.
 Regina – the daughter of Eugenio and Benigna married
Manuel de Quintos, a Filipino-Chinese lawyer from Pangasinan.
One of their daughters married
 Lorenzo Alberto Alonso, a prominent Spanish-Filipino
mestizo of Biñan; their children were: Narcisa, Teodora(Rizal’s
mother), Gregorio, Manual and Jose
 THE SURNAME “RIZAL”
 Mercado – the real surname of the Rizal family
which was adopted
in 1731 by Domingo Laméo

 Rizal – the second surname which was given by a

Spanish alcalde mayor of Laguna, who was a family
friend. In Spanish it means, ―A field where wheat, cut
while still green, sprouts again.‖
 THE RIZAL HOME
 The Rizal Residence was a two-storey building, rectangular in shape, built of
adobe stone and hard-woods, and roofed with red tiles
 A GOOD AND MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY
 The Rizal family belonged to the principalia, a town
aristrocracy in Spanish
Philippines.
 They owned a carriage which was a status symbol of
the illustrados (composed of native-born
intellectuals and cut across ethnolinguistic and racial
lines—Indios, Insulares, and mestizos, among others).
 They also owned a library, the largest in Calamba,
consisting of more than 1000 volumes.
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