Rizal Family, Early Childhood and Early

Education
 Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso
Realonda
• Jose Rizal came from a 13-member family consisting of his parents,
Francisco Mercado II and Teodora Alonso Realonda,
• With nine sisters and one brother.
 Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y
Alejandro

• 11 May 1818 – 5 January 1898

He also attended the Colegio de San Jose in Manila,

where he studied Latin and philosophy. He was
described by Rafael Palma: "He was 40, of solid
shoulders, strong constitution, rather tall than short,
of serious and reflective mien, with prominent
forehead and large dark eyes. A pure Filipino.

Francisco married Teodora Alonso when he was 29

years old. The couple resided in Laguna, particularly
in Calamba and built a business in agriculture.
Teodora Alonso
8 November Realonda
1826 de1911
– 16 August Quintos

Was a wealthy woman in the Spanish colonial Philippines.

Realonda was born in Santa Cruz, Manila. She was also
known for being a disciplinarian and hard-working mother.
Her medical condition inspired Rizal to take up medicine.

She was the second child of Brijida de Quintos and

Lorenzo Realonda, a municipal captain in Binán,
Laguna, was an educated woman, who became a
housewife, devoted to caring for her family's needs.
She was an industrious and educated woman, managing
the family's farm and finances. Teodora used her
knowledge to grow the rice, corn, and sugarcane that
sustained the family's well-to-do lifestyle. She also
expanded the family business into the areas of textiles,
flour, and sugar milling, refining these raw materials and
selling the finished staples from a small store on the
ground floor of the family home.
• SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913)
was known as Neneng.
Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage.
She was married to Manuel T. Hidalgo, a
native and one of the richest persons in 
Tanauan, Batangas.
• 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.
• He lived a quiet life as a gentleman farmer,
and died on April 13, 1930 at the age of 79
of tuberculosis
• NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939)
The third child. married Antonio Lopez at
Morong, Rizal; a teacher and musician.
• Sisa married Antonino Lopez, a teacher and
musician from Morong, Rizal.
• OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887)
The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo;
died in 1887 from childbirth.
• Olympia married Silvestre Ubaldo, a
telegraph operator from Manila.
• LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919)
The fifth child. Married Matriano
Herbosa.
• Lucia Rizal was married to
Mariano Herbosa of Calamba.
When her husband died in the
cholera epidemic in 1889,
• MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945)
The sixth child. Married Daniel
Faustino Cruz of Biñan,
Laguna.
• She married a very young man
from Biñang whose name is
Daniel Faustino Cruz.
• JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)
The second son and the seventh child.
He was executed by the Spaniards on
December 30,1896.
• CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865)

Also called ‘Concha’ by her siblings, Concepcion Rizal (1862-1865) was

the eight child of the Rizal family. She died at the age of three.
Among his sisters, it is said that Pepe loved most the little Concha who
was a year younger than him. Jose played games and shared children
stories with her, and from her he felt the beauty of sisterly love. When
Concha died of sickness in 1865, Jose mournfully wept at losing her.
JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945)
The ninth child. An epileptic, died a spinster.
• Jose nicknamed her as Panggoy
• Was an original katipunera
TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951)
• Or known as ‘Trining’ 
•
The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last
of the family to die.
SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929)
• Also called ‘Choleng,
The youngest child married Pantaleon
Quintero.
• Being a teacher, she was arguably the best
educated among Rizal’s sisters.
• Rizal was a 5th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co, a
Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from 
Jinjiang, Quanzhou in the mid-17th century. Lam-co married Inez de la
Rosa, a Sangley of Luzon.

• José Rizal also had Spanish and Japanese ancestors. His grandfather and
father of Teodora was a half Spaniard engineer named Lorenzo Alberto
Alonzo. His maternal great-great-grandfather was Eugenio Ursua, a
descendant of Japanese settlers.
RIZAL’S EARLY
CHILDHOOD
CALAMBA, THE HERO’S TOWN
*Calamba was a hacienda town which belonged to the dominican
order.

*It is a picturesque town nesting on a verdant plain covered with

irrigated rice fields and sugar-lands.

*A few kilometers to the south looms is the legendary Mount

Makiling in somnolent grandeur.
*In 1876 when he was 15 years old and was a student in the Ateneo
de Manila he remembered his beloved town.

*He wrote a poem Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In Memory of my

Town).
 EARLIEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
• The first memory of Rizal, in his infancy, was his happy days in the
family garden.

• Because he was a frail, sickly, and undersized child, he was given the
most tender care by his parents.
 THE HERO’S FIRST SORROW
• Of his sisters, Jose loved most little Concha (Concepcion). He was one
year older than Concha.

• Unfortunately, Concha died of sickness in 1865 when he was 3 years old.

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.
• One of the men he esteemed and respected in Calamba during his
boyhood was the scholarly Father Leoncio Lopez, the town priest.
 FIRST EDUCATION
• 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.
 ARTISTIC TALENTS
• Since Early childhood Rizal revealed his god-given talents for the arts.
• He draw sketches and pictures on his books of his sisters, for which
reason he was scolded by his mother.
• He carved figures of animals and 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.
 INFLUENCES ON HERO’S BOYHOOD

• In the lives of all men there are influences which cause some to be great
and the others not. In the case of Rizal, he had all favorable influences,
which no other child in our country enjoyed.
 ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCE
• According to psychologist, environment as well as heredity affects the
nature of a person.
• It includes places, associates and events.
• The beautiful scenic of Calamba and the beautiful garden of the Rizal
family stimulated the inborn artistic and literary talents of Jose Rizal.
• The religious atmosphere at his home fortified his religious nature.
• His brother Paciano instilled in his mind the love for freedom and justice.
 Rizal’s
Early
Education
in Calamba
and Binan
Lets us reminisce the past!
 Rizal was a bibo kid..
• At the age of five, He could read their
Spanish Bible haltingly.
• Artistic talents.
• Sketches
• Mold Clay
• Nature Lover
 Rizal was a bibo kid
• MAN OF LETTERS
• Wrote his first poem “Sa aking mga Kababata”
• Wrote his first drama in Tagalog at the age of eight.

• THE MAGICIAN
• Magic-lantern exhibition, marionettes, making coins
or handkerchief appear/disappear
 Early Education in Calamba and Binan
• Rizal’s parents employed private tutors to give him lessons at home. The
first was Maestro Celestino and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua.
• Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of Rizal’s
father became his tutor. This teacher lived at the Rizal home and
instructed Rizal in Spanish and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not live long.
He died five months later.
• After Monroy’s death, Rizal’s parents decided to send their gifted son to a
private school in Binan.
 Rizal goes to Binan
• June 1869- Rizal left Calamba for Binan accompanied by Paciano.
• Got homesick on his first night.

“In the moonlight, I remembered my home town, my idolized mother, and

solicitous sisters. Ah, how sweet to me was Calamba, my own town, in spite
of the fact that it was not as wealthy as Binan”
 Rizal’s School Experience in Binan
School
• Paciano enrolled Rizal to the school of Maestro Justiano Aquino Cruz.
• Rizal met bully, Pedro. Rizal, who was angry at this bully for making fun
of him during his conversation with the teacher, challenged Pedro to a
fight. Rizal having learned the art of wrestling from his athletic Tio
Manuel, defeated the bigger boy.
• After class, a classmate named Andres Salandanan challenged him to an
arm-wrestling match. Rizal having the weaker arm, lost and nearly
cracked his head on the sidewalk.
 Best Student in School
• In academic, Rizal beat all Binan boys. He surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin,
and other subjects.
• They were all jealous of his intellectual superiority that they wickedly squealed
to the teacher whenever Rizal had a fight outside the school, and even told lies to
discredit him before the teacher’s eyes. Consequently the teacher had to punish
Rizal
• He received many whipping and strokes from the ferule. Rare was the day when
he was not stretched on the bench for a whipping or punished with five or six
blows on the open palm.
• Juancho- an old painter who was the father-in-law of the school teacher;
give Rizal lessons in drawing and painting.
• 1870- Rizal received a letter from his sister Saturnina, informing him of
the arrival of the streamer Talim which could take him from Binan to
Calamba.
• Saturday afternoon, December 17, 1870- Rizal left Binan after one year
and a half of schooling
• Arturo Camps- a Frenchman friend of Rizal’s father who took care of him
on board.