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Rizal’s Life Family,

Childhood, and Early

Education

The Mercado -Rizal Family The Rizal’s is considered one of the biggest families during their time. Domingo Lam-co, the family's paternal ascendant was a full-blooded Chinese who came to the Philippines from Amoy, China in the closing years of the 17th century and married a Chinese half-breed by the name of Ines de la Rosa. Researchers revealed that the Mercado-Rizal family had also traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and Even Negrito blood aside from Chinese. Jose Rizal came from a 13- memberfamily consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora Alonso Realonda, and nine sisters and one brother.

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TEODORA

ALONSO (1827-

Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brjidade Quintos. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a business-minded woman, courteous, religious, hard-working and well-read. She was bornin Santa Cruz, Manila on November 14, 1827 and died in 1913 in Manila.

SATURNINA

RIZAL (1850-

Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas.

PACIANO RIZAL

Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine Revolution.

OLYMPIA RIZAL

The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from childbirth.

LUCIA

RIZAL (1857-

The fifth child.

Married Matriano

Herbosa.

JOSE RIZAL

The second son and the seventh child. He was executed by the Spaniard son December 30,1896.

CONCEPCION

RIZAL (1862-

The eight child. Died at the age of three.

TRINIDAD RIZAL

The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last of the family to die.

SOLEDAD RIZAL

The youngest

child married

Pantaleon

Quintero.

His father hired a classmate by the name of Leon Monroy who, for five months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the rudiments of Latin. At about this time two of his mother’s cousin frequented Calamba. Uncle Manuel Alberto, seeing Rizal frail in body, concerned himself with the physical development of his young nephew and taught the latter love for the open air and developed in him a great admiration for the beauty of nature, while Uncle Gregorio, a scholar, instilled into the mind of the boy love for education. He advised Rizal: "Work hard and perform every task very carefully; learn to be swift as well as thorough; be independent in thinking and make visual pictures of everything."6 June 1868 With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to fulfill the vow made by his mother to take the child to the Shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo should she and her child survive the ordeal of delivery which nearly caused his mother’s life. From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina who was at the time studying in the La Concordia College in Sta. Ana.1869At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem entitled "Sa Aking Mga Kabata." The poem was written in tagalog and had for its theme "Love of One’s Language."

The Name: Jose Protacio Realonda Alonso Rizal Mercado Jose – was named after

• St. Joseph
• From uncle, lolo and other siblings Protacio – St. Protacio a martyr.
• Filipino priest baptized him; secular Archbishop confirmed Rizal – a shortened form of the Spanish word “second crop”, seemed suited to a family of farmers who were making a second start in a new home. Mercado was attached to Rizal to avoid confusion Realonda – was adopted by Francisco’s mother in law that gave Teodora a middle name Realonda