José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born on June 19, 1861, at Calamba, Laguna, the seventh child of Francisco Rizal Mercado and Teodora Alonzo y Quintos. The family were wealthy farmers who rented land from the Dominican religious order. Descendants of a Chinese immigrant named...
On June 19th 1861, the Mercado Family from the town of Calamba in the province of Laguna in the Philippines, happily greeted the birth of their newest member — a baby boy born as the seventh child to proud parents Francisco Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos....
Rizal later wrote essays that criticized Spanish historical accounts of the pre-colonial Philippine societies. Education Before attending school in Manila, Rizal initially studied under Justiniano Aquino Cruz in Biñan, Laguna. He took the entrance examination in Colegio de San Juan de Letran, as ...
This was his place of residence from May 1883 to June 17, 1883 before Rizal left for Paris for a vacation. Situated in the old part of Madrid close to the Plaza Sta. Ana and right behind the Teatro Español, it stood near the corner of c/ Echegaray (formerly c/ del Lobo), where ...
In 1889, a Spanish writer, Pablo Mir Deas, attacked Antonio Luna in the Barcelona newspaper “El Pueblo Soberano”. As Rizal’s defense of his friend Luna, he wrote the article “Inconsequencias” (Inconsequences) which was published on November 30, 1889. A year after however, Rizal challe...
Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin CraigWilliam Shakespeare
The photograph from which the engraving was reproduced came one year ago with the Christmas greetings of the Austrian professor whose recent death the Philippine Islands, who knew him as their friend and Rizal’s, is mourning. The picture perhaps deserves a couple of comments. As a child Rizal...
To date, nobody in the Philippine Coast Guard has been sanctioned for publishing on social media in May the google drive link containing a masterlist of OFW names who tested negative. The Google link was without online security to safeguard sensitive data and protect OFWs from identity theft. ...
THE Messiah of the Philippine Revolution is one title given by the colonial writers to Dr. Jose P. Rizal. While many others had preceded him in exposing colonial misrule, it was he who concretized this misrule. The injustices he and his families suffered at the hands of the civil a...
When the students in the audience stage a walk-out in the theatre of the city and when in provincial San Diego, a stampede cuts short a comedia performance, the interrelationships between society and a discourse of power are revealed.Rizal's annotations of Philippine theater in his novels are...