Even closer to home, Rizal saw the treatment accorded to his beloved mother by the Spanish authorities who accused her of attempting to poison her cousin and sent her to jail in Santa Cruz, Laguna. Teodora Mercado was made to walk sixteen kilometers from their home to the prison and was i...
But as time went on, Rizal’s heart was not in medicine as shown by his enrolment in other courses. His medical interest was animated more by a desire to remove cataracts on his mother’s eyes; she was then close to being blind. Already losing her eyesight, Rizal’s mother could write...
(14 children) Francisco Mercado Rizal mother side Regina Ursua/Ochoa– Manuel de Quintos (2 children) Brigida de Quintos - - Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo (7 children) Teodora Alonzo Multiracial Ancestry Spanish Chinese Japanese Malayo-Polynesian Negrito Immediate Family Father - Studied Latin Philosophy ...