Born in Calamba, Laguna on June 19, 1861, Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was the son of Francisco Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos, leaseholders of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm owned by Dominicans. He had nine sisters and a brot...
Germany where Rizal spent some time in the 1880s, erected a modest but elegant statue in his honor, for making that city famous through his poem entitled “To the Flowers of Heidelberg.” Mexico City built a replica of the Rizal monument at the Luneta in their famous...
Jose dedicated a poem to Leonor and that is also portrayed in Noli Me Tangere when Maria Clara sang during their picnic. Again, Paciano advised Jose Rizal to go to Europe to study Medicine and to freely write about the immoral administration of Spanish authorities. In Central University of ...
publication of these books, it was still printed to make the Filipinos aware of what was really happening. Rizal almost put these books into fire because of his financial incapability due to the economic problem in Calamba, when the friars increased the tax that they’ve been collecting from ...