Jose Rizal’s Love for Francisco Mercado Rizal, His Father Jose Rizal’s Love for Teodora Alonzo, His Mother Jose Rizal’s Siblings: How His Brother and Sisters Affected the Life of the Filipino Hero Jose Rizal’s Parents: How Don Francisco Mercado and Doña Teodora Alonso made him a...
This became known as A Mother’s Revenge and is now displayed at the National Museum. He is also the most famous Filipino lottery winner. Early in his exile in 1892, he picked and bought a lotto ticket numbered 9736 with the military commandant of Dapitan, Don Ricardo Carnicero and ...
On one side of Rizal's statue is a statue of a mother and her child; on the other side is a statue of two boys reading. These statues are said to represent respectively family and education. Rizal's statue is set upon a pedestal in which the hero's remains are interred. On the fr...
How elated she must have been when, years later, her daughter Carmen (my mother) married one of Rizals grand nephews, Ismael Cruz (my father). In the family, we always remember Rizals birthday, his tragic execution, and participate as best we can in government activities commemorating the ...
Inspired by his mother's advancing blindness, Rizal next went to the University of Paris and then to the University of Heidelberg for further study in ophthalmology. At Heidelberg, he studied under the famed professor Otto Becker (1828–1890). Rizal finished his second doctorate at Heidelberg in...
The date of birth and death of Rizal's Father May 11, 1818January 5, 1898 The date of birth and death of Rizal's Mother November 8, 1826 August 16, 1911 The sibling of Rizal who died only 3 yrs old Conception The general of Philippine Revolution Paciano Jose Rizal was a product of ...
Rizal’s priority was to cure his mother’s eyes, thus his first operation of being an ophthalmologist based from his experiences and studies, was very successful in removing a double cataract and restored Teodora’s vision. He then provided a lot for the community by opening a gymnasium for...
Father Dámaso is one of the religious/political figures in Binondo who dislikes Ibarra’s dad. By accusing Ibarra’s dad of being a heretic, and by using the death of a local student to make him look bad, Father Dámaso turned the community against Ibarra’s dad, and had him thrown in...
Father, Flight attendant Francis Timothy Mendoza hails from Sorsogon and works as a flight attendant for the national airline. He's also a businessman, a loving husband, and a proud dad to a little girl. Despite his job taking him all over the world, Francis always makes sure to come ba...
Just recently, there were talks over the internet concerning Luna’s supposed diversion of millions of pesos from the Republic’s treasury, particularly from Ilocos and Pampanga, to Tarlac, the hometown of his sweetheart, Ysidra Cojuangco. Ysidra was the aunt of Jose Cojuangco, father of former...