Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda

Was born on June 19, 1861, approximately

35 years before that fateful day. The
seventh of the eleven children born to a
relatively well-off family in a Dominician-
ownedtenant Land in Calamba Laguna.
Jose Rizal lived and died during the
Spanish colonial era in the Philippines.
HIS NICK NAME IS PEPE
RIZALS SIBLINGS

SATURINA RIZAL WAS THE ELDEST OF THE OFFSPRINGS OF FRANCISCO

MERCADO AND TEODORA ALONSO REALONDA. SHE MARRIED MANUEL
HIDALGO WHO HAILED FROM TANAUAN BATANGAS

THE ONLY BROTHER OF JOSE RIZAL WAS PACIANO RIZAL AND WAS THE
SECOND CHILD. PACIANO STUDIED AT THE SAN JOSE COLLEGE IN MANILA AND
WORKED AS A FARMER AND LATER AS A GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINE
REVOLUTION.

THE OTHER SISTERS OF JOSE RIZAL WERE NARCISA, OLYMPIA, LUCIA , MARIA,
CONCEPTION, JOSEFA TRINIDAD AND SOLEDAD. SOLEDAD WAS YOUNGEST
CHILD AND LATER WAS MARRIED TO PANTALEON QUINTERO.
 JUNE 22 1861 HE WAS
BAPTIZED JOSE RIZAL
MERCADO AT THE CATHOLIC
OF CALAMBA BY PARISH
PRIEST RUFINO COLLANTES
WITH REV. PEDRO CASANAS
AS THE SPONSOR
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH OF
CALAMBA AND THE
CANONICAL BOOKS
INCLUDING THE BOOK IN
WHICH RIZALS BAPTISMAL
RECORDS WERE ENTERED
WERE BURNED
 RIZALS
CHILDHOOD
THE FIRST MEMORY OF
RIZAL IN HIS INFANCY
WAS HIS HAPPY DAYS IN
GARDEN WHEN HE WAS
3 YEARS OLD
 BY NIGHTFALL RIZALS
MOTHER GATHERED ALL
THE CHILDREN AT THE
HOUSE TO PRAY ANGELUS
 BARELY THREE
YEARS OLD RIZAL
LEARNED THE
ALPHABETH FROM
HIS MOTHER
 WHEN HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD
HIS SISTER CONCEPTION THE EIGHT
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
AT THE AGE OF FIVE HE
BEGAN TO MAKE
SCHETCHES WITH HIS
PENCIL AND MOLD ON CLAY
AND WAX OBJECTS
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
(MONROY) DEATH TAUGHT
RIZAL THE RIDIMENT OF LATIN
 LOVED GO TO CHURCH TO TAKE PART IN
NOVENAS AND JOIN RELIGIOUS
PROCESSIONS.

CALLED MANONG JOSE BY HERMANOS AND

HERMANAS TERCERAS

FATHER LEANCIANO LOPEZ (TOWN PRIEST)

RIZAL USED TO VISIT AND LISTENED TO HIS
STIMULATING OPINIONS ON CURRENT
EVENT AND SOUND PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
 LATER IN HIS CHILDHOOD,
HE SHOWED SPECIAL TALENT
IN PAINTING AND
SCULPTURE, WROTE A
TAGALOG PLAY WHICH WAS
PRESENTED AT A CALAMBA
FIESTA AND PENNED A SHORT
PLAY IN SPANISH WHICH WAS
PRESENTED IN SCHOOL
 ON JUNE 06 1868 JOSE AND HIS
FATHER LEFT CALAMBA TO GO AN
PILGRIMAGE TO ANTIPOLO
IT WAS THE FIRST TRIP OF JOSE
ACROSS LAGUNA DE BAY. AFTER
PRAYING AT THE SHRINE OF THE
VIRGINIA OF ANTIPOLO THEY
WENT TO MANILA
 EARLY
EDUCATION
 AT THE AGE OF EIGHT HE
WROTE HIS FIRST POEM IN
THE NARATIVE LANGUAGE
ENTITLED SA AKING MGA
KABATA
 HIS BROTHER PACIANO BROUGHT
RIZAL TO BINAN LAGUNA. HE WAS
PLACED UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF
JUSTINIANO AQUINO CRUZ
STUDYING LATIN AND SPANISH. IN
THIS TOWN HE ALSO LEARNED THE
ART OF PAINTING UNDER THE
TUTORSHIP OF AN OLD PAINTER BY
THE NAME OF JUANCHO CARRERA
 HAVING FINISHED HIS
STUDIED IN BINAN , RIZAL
RETURNED TO CALAMBA ON
BOARD THE MOTORBOAT
TALIM. HIS PARENTS
PLANNED TO TRANSFER HIM
TO MANILA WHERE HE COULD
CONTINUE HIS STUDIES
 IN (1877), HE TOOK
PHILOSOPHY AND LETTERS AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF STO.
TOMAS WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME ENROLLED IN A COURSE
IN THE LAND SURVEYING AT
THE ATENEO
 HE FINISHED HIS
SURVEYORS TRAINING
IN1877 PASSED THE
LICENSING EXAM IN MAY
1878 THOUGH THE LICENSE
WAS GRANTED TO HIM ONLY
IN 1881 WHEN HE REACHED
THE AGE OF MAJORITY
 HE ENROLLED IN MEDICINE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF STO.TOMAS
IN 1878 SENSING HOWEVER THAT
THE FILIPINO STUDENTS WERE
BEING DISCRIMINATED BY THE
DOMINICAN PROFESSORS, HE
LEFT UST WITHOUT FINISHING
HIS COURSE