THE LIFE OF RIZAL

I. RIZAL’S FAMILY
II. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY
EDUCATION
I. RIZAL’S
FAMILY
I. RIZAL’S FAMILY

• The Rizals is considered one of the biggest familles

during their time.

• Domingo Lam-co, was the great Grandfather or

Jose Rizal, There 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.
I. RIZAL’S FAMILY

• 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
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y
Alonso 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
Dominican-ownedtenant land
in Calamba, Laguna, Jose
Rizal lived and died during the
Spanish colonial era in the
Philippines.
I. RIZAL’S FAMILY

 Teodora Alonso Realonda

1827 – 1913
Mother

 FRANCISCO MERCADO
1818 - 1819
Father
I. Rizal’s Family
RIZAL’S SIBLINGS
II. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY
EDUCATION
II. CHILDHOOD

In his early childhood, Jose had mastered

the alphabet, learned to write and read
books like the Spanish version of the Vulgate
Bible.
II. CHILDHOOD

At young age, he already showed

inclinations to arts. He amazed his family
by his pencil drawings, sketches, and
moldings of clay.
II. CHILDHOOD

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.
II.CHILDHOOD
Aside from sketching and sculpturing, Rizal also possessed a
talent in literature.

– His first poem, at the age of eight he wrote, Sa Aking Mga

Kababata (To my Fellow Children)
–The poem is all about national sentiment.

He is also a dramatist. He wrote tagalog comedy.

He is also a magician. He learn magic tricks at the early age.
He also gained skills in manipulating marionettes (puppet
shows).
II. CHILDHOOD

Calamba,Rizal’s Town.

- Calamba was an hacienda town which belonged to the Dominican

Order, which also owned all the lands around it.

– Rizal loved Calamba with all his heart and soul. It was in his 15
years old and he was a student in the Ateneo de Manila, where he
remembered his beloved town.

- In his remembrance to his town, he wrote about it, entitled, “Un

Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo”- (In Memory of My Town)
II. CHILDHOOD

Rizal was a devoted Son of the Church.

-He began to take part in their family prayer.

- At the age of five, he was able to read haltingly the

Spanish family Bible.

-He loved to go to church to pray, take part in novenas,

and join religious processions.
II. EARLY EDUCATION

At the age of eleven, Rizal attended the Ateneo

Municipal de Manila and obtained at the age of
16 his of Bachelor of Arts degree with an
average “Excellent “
II. EARLY EDUCATION

In the same year (1877), he took at the University of

Santo Tomas, while at the same time enrolled
Philosophy and Letters in a course in land surveying
at the Ateneo.

He finished his surveyor’s training in 1877, passed

the licensing exam in May 1878, though the license
was granted to him only in 1881 when he reached the
age of majority.
II. EARLY EDUCATION

He enrolled in medicine at the University of

Santo Tomas in 1878. Sensing however that the
Filipino students Were being discriminated by
Dominican professors, he left UST without
finishing his course .
AYUN LANG BYE, BYE!