When is Rizal Day? This national holiday in the Philippines is celebrated annually on December 30th. Known in the Philippines as 'Araw ng Kabayanihan ni Dr. Jose Rizal', this day marks the anniversary of the execution of José Rizal on this day in 1896. ...
The Spiritual Odyssey of Jose RizalByline: Bernardo M VillegasManila Bulletin
How did Jose Rizal die? Who made Jose Rizal the Philippines foremost national hero and why? What are the achievements of Jose Rizal? What was the evidence presented against Jose Rizal? How do we outline the topic of Execution of Jose Rizal? Did Jose Rizal really retract his words? How doe...
Mr. Charles Derbyshire, who put Rizal’s great novel Noli me tangere and its sequel El Filibusterismo into English (as The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed), besides many minor writings of the “Greatest Man of the Brown Race”, has rendered a similar service for La Indolencia de lo...
Trial and Execution The Philippine Revolution broke out in 1896. Rizal denounced the violence and received permission to travel to Cuba to tend to victims of yellow fever in exchange for his freedom. Bonifacio and two associates sneaked aboard the ship to Cuba before it left the Philippines and...
The remains of Rizal interred in the monument consisted of bones because after his execution, the hero was secretly buried without a coffin at Paco Cemetery. There was an account of how his sister Narcisa ultimately discovered the burial site and how she bribed the caretaker to mark the...
Indolence of the Filipino in the Realm of System of Objects: A Critical Theory Approach The arrival of Dr. Jose Rizal on June 26, 1892 created a stir in the society so much so that the Spanish colonial authorities kept an eye on him. This was ......
Jose Rizal by Felix Gonzales Oil on canvas; 1962. National Museum Collection * View of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin by Jose Rizal Graphite on paper; c. 1886. National Museum Collection The Gift of Aurora Ortega-Carlos in memory of Pablo P. Carlos‚ Jr. * Rizal the Reformist by Martino ...
The poem was traditionally believed to be Jose Rizal's (the Philippine national hero) first written Tagalog poem at the age of eight and was said to have been published posthumously many years after Rizal’s death. However, recent investigations cast serious doubts concerning the assumed au...
Before World War 2, my maternal grandfather’s (Judge Andrés Borromeo y Reynes’) first cousin Marcial Borromeo y Guerrero had completed a very thorough genealogy of the Philippine Borromeo family. During the war, this (along with so much else) was lost. Today, Glenn Anthony Borromeo, Omar ...