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Jos Protasio Rizal Mercado[7] y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as Jos Rizal (Spanish
pronunciation: [xose risal]; June 19, 1861 December 30, 1896), was a Filipino
nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of thePhilippines.
An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the
Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion after an anti-colonial
revolution, inspired in part by his writings, broke out. Though he was not actively involved in its
planning or conduct, he ultimately approved of its goals which eventually led to Philippine
independence.
He is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines, and is implied by Philippine
law to be one of the national heroes.[8] He was the author of the novels Noli Me Tngere[9] and El
filibusterismo,[10] and a number of poems and essays.[11][12]
Contents
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1Early life
2Education
5.1Exile in Dapitan
6Execution
7.2Poetry
7.3Plays
7.4Other works
8.1Retraction controversy
9.3Critiques of books
10Legacy
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11Historical commemoration
12.3Others
12.4Famous lines
13See also
15Sources
16Further reading
17External links
Early life
Jos Rizal was born in 1861 to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso in the town of Calamba in
Laguna province. He had nine sisters and one brother. His parents were leaseholders of
a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. Both their families had adopted the
additional surnames of Rizal and Realonda in 1849, after Governor General Narciso Clavera y
Zalda decreed the adoption of Spanish surnames among the Filipinos for census purposes (though
they already had Spanish names).
Like many families in the Philippines, the Rizals were of mixed origin. Jos's patrilineal lineage could
be traced back to Fujian in China through his father's ancestor Lam-Co, a Chinese merchant who
immigrated to the Philippines in the late 17th century.[13][14][note 1][15]Lam-Co traveled to Manila from Amoy,
China, possibly to avoid the famine or plague in his home district, and more probably to escape
theManchu invasion. He finally decided to stay in the islands as a farmer. In 1697, to escape the
bitter anti-Chinese prejudice that existed in the Philippines, he converted to Catholicism, changed his
name to Domingo Mercado and married the daughter of an indigenous Philippines resident. On his
mother's side, Rizal's ancestry included Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog blood. His
mother's lineage can be traced to the affluent Florentina family of Chinese mestizo families
originating in Baliuag, Bulacan.[16]
From an early age, Jos showed a precocious intellect. He learned the alphabet from his mother at
3, and could read and write at age 5.[14] Upon enrolling at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, he
dropped the last three names that made up his full name, on the advice of his brother, Pacianoand
the Mercado family, thus rendering his name as "Jos Protasio Rizal". Of this, he later wrote: "My
family never paid much attention [to our second surname Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus giving
me the appearance of an illegitimate child!"[17] This was to enable him to travel freely and
disassociate him from his brother, who had gained notoriety with his earlier links to Filipino
priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora (popularly known as Gomburza) who had
been accused and executed for treason.
Despite the name change, Jos, as "Rizal" soon distinguished himself in poetry writing contests,
impressing his professors with his facility with Castilian and other foreign languages, and later, in
writing essays that were critical of the Spanish historical accounts of the pre-colonial Philippine
societies. Indeed, by 1891, the year he finished his El Filibusterismo, this second surname had
become so well known that, as he writes to another friend, "All my family now carry the name Rizal
instead of Mercado because the name Rizal means persecution! Good! I too want to join them and
be worthy of this family name..."[17]
Education
Rizal first studied under Justiniano Aquino Cruz in Bian, Laguna, before he was sent to Manila.
[18]
As to his father's request, he took the entrance examination in Colegio de San Juan de Letran but
he then enrolled at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and graduated as one of the nine students in his
class declared sobresaliente or outstanding. He continued his education at the Ateneo Municipal de
Manila to obtain a land surveyor and assessor's degree, and at the same time at the University of
Santo Tomas where he did take up a preparatory course in law.[19] Upon learning that his mother was
going blind, he decided to switch to medicine at the medical school of Santo Tomas specializing later
in ophthalmology.
Without his parents' knowledge and consent, but secretly supported by his brother Paciano, he
traveled alone to Madrid, Spain in May 1882 and studied medicine at the Universidad Central de
Madrid where he earned the degree, Licentiate in Medicine. He also attended medical lectures at
the University of Paris and the University of Heidelberg. In Berlin, he was inducted as a member of
the Berlin Ethnological Society and the Berlin Anthropological Society under the patronage of the
famous pathologist Rudolf Virchow. Following custom, he delivered an address in German in April
1887 before the Anthropological Society on the orthography and structure of the Tagalog language.
He left Heidelberg a poem, "A las flores del Heidelberg", which was both an evocation and a prayer
for the welfare of his native land and the unification of common values between East and West.
At Heidelberg, the 25-year-old Rizal, completed in 1887 his eye specialization under the renowned
professor, Otto Becker. There he used the newly invented ophthalmoscope (invented by Hermann
von Helmholtz) to later operate on his own mother's eye. From Heidelberg, Rizal wrote his parents:
"I spend half of the day in the study of German and the other half, in the diseases of the eye. Twice a
week, I go to the bierbrauerie, or beerhall, to speak German with my student friends." He lived in a
Karlstrae boarding house then moved to Ludwigsplatz. There, he met Reverend Karl Ullmer and
stayed with them in Wilhelmsfeld, where he wrote the last few chapters of Noli Me Tngere.
Rizal was a polymath, skilled in both science and the arts. He painted, sketched, and made
sculptures and woodcarving. He was a prolific poet, essayist, and novelist whose most famous
works were his two novels, Noli Me Tngere and its sequel, El filibusterismo.[note 2][9]These social
commentaries during the Spanish colonization of the country formed the nucleus of literature that
inspired peaceful reformists and armed revolutionaries alike. Rizal was also a polyglot, conversant in
twenty-two languages.[note 3][note 4][20][21]
Rizal's multifacetedness was described by his German friend, Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer, as
"stupendous."[note 5] Documented studies show him to be a polymath with the ability to master various
skills and subjects.[20][22][22][23] He was an ophthalmologist, sculptor, painter, educator, farmer, historian,
playwright and journalist. Besides poetry and creative writing, he dabbled, with varying degrees of
expertise, in architecture, cartography, economics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, dramatics,
martial arts, fencing and pistol shooting. He was also a Freemason, joining Acacia Lodge No. 9
during his time in Spain and becoming a Master Mason in 1884.
Rednaxela Terrace, where Rizal lived during his self-imposed exile in Hong Kong (photo taken in 2011).
Jos Rizal's life is one of the most documented of 19th century Filipinos due to the vast and
extensive records written by and about him.[24] Almost everything in his short life is recorded
somewhere, being himself a regular diarist and prolific letter writer, much of the material having
survived. His biographers, however, have faced difficulty in translating his writings because of Rizal's
habit of switching from one language to another.
They drew largely from his travel diaries with their insights of a young Asian encountering the West
for the first time. They included his later trips, home and back again to Europe through Japan and
the United States,[25] and, finally, through his self-imposed exile in Hong Kong.
Shortly after he graduated from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila (now Ateneo de Manila University),
Rizal (who was then 16 years old) and a friend, Mariano Katigbak, came to visit Rizal's maternal
grandmother in Tondo, Manila. Mariano brought along his sister, Segunda Katigbak, a 14-year-old
Batanguea from Lipa, Batangas. It was the first time they met and Rizal described Segunda as
"rather short, with eyes that were eloquent and ardent at times and languid at others, rosycheeked,
with an enchanting and provocative smile that revealed very beautiful teeth, and the air of a sylph;
her entire self diffused a mysterious charm." His grandmother's guests were mostly college students
and they knew that Rizal had skills in painting. They suggested that Rizal should make a portrait of
Segunda. He complied reluctantly and made a pencil sketch of her. Unfortunately for him, Katigbak
was engaged to Manuel Luz.[26]
From December 1891 to June 1892, Rizal lived with his family in Number 2 of Rednaxela Terrace,
Mid-levels, Hong Kong Island. Rizal used 5 D'Aguilar Street, Central district, Hong Kong Island, as
his ophthalmologist clinic from 2 pm to 6 pm. This period of his life included his recorded affections
of which nine were identified. They were Gertrude Beckett of Chalcot Crescent, London, wealthy and
high-minded Nelly Boustead of the English and Iberian merchant family, last descendant of a noble
Japanese family Seiko Usui (affectionately called O-Sei-san), his earlier friendship with Segunda
Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, and eight-year romantic relationship with a distant cousin, Leonor
Rivera (popularly thought to be the inspiration for the character of Mara Clara in Noli me tangere).
Leonor Rivera is thought to be the inspiration for the character of Maria Clara in Noli Me
Tngere and El Filibusterismo.[27] Rivera and Rizal first met in Manila when Rivera was only 14 years
old. When Rizal left for Europe on May 3, 1882, Rivera was 16 years of age. Their correspondence
began when Rizal left a poem for Rivera saying farewell. [28]
The correspondence between Rivera and Rizal kept Rizal focused on his studies in Europe. They
employed codes in their letters because Rivera's mother did not favor Rizal. A letter from Mariano
Katigbak dated June 27, 1884, referred to Rivera as Rizal's "betrothed". Katigbak described Rivera
as having been greatly affected by Rizal's departure, frequently sick because of insomnia.
When Rizal returned to the Philippines on August 5, 1887, Rivera and her family had moved back
to Dagupan, Pangasinan. Rizal was forbidden by his father Francisco Mercado to see Rivera in
order to avoid putting the Rivera family in danger because at the time Rizal was already labeled by
the criollo elite as a filibustero or subversive[28] because of his novel Noli Me Tngere. Rizal wanted
to marry Rivera while he was still in the Philippines because of Rivera's uncomplaining fidelity. Rizal
asked permission from his father one more time before his second departure from the Philippines.
The meeting never happened. In 1888, Rizal stopped receiving letters from Rivera for a year,
although Rizal kept sending letters to Rivera. The reason for Rivera's year of silence was the
connivance between Rivera's mother and the Englishman named Henry Kipping, a railway
engineer who fell in love with Rivera and was favored by Rivera's mother.[28][29] The news of Leonor
Rivera's marriage to Kipping devastated Rizal.
His European friends kept almost everything he gave them, including doodlings on pieces of paper.
In the home of a Spanish liberal, Pedro Ortiga y Prez, he left an impression that was to be
remembered by his daughter, Consuelo. In her diary, she wrote of a day Rizal spent there and
regaled them with his wit, social graces, and sleight-of-hand tricks. In London, during his research
on Antonio de Morga's writings, he became a regular guest in the home of Dr. Reinhold Rost of
the British Museum who referred to him as "a gem of a man."[24][note 6] The family of Karl Ullmer, pastor
of Wilhelmsfeld, and the Blumentritts saved even buttonholes and napkins with sketches and notes.
They were ultimately bequeathed to the Rizal family to form a treasure trove of memorabilia.
Josephine Bracken was Rizal's common-law wife whom he reportedly married shortly before his execution
Rizal's Brussels stay was short-lived; he moved to Madrid, giving the young Suzanna a box of
chocolates. She wrote to him in French: "After your departure, I did not take the chocolate. The box
is still intact as on the day of your parting. Dont delay too long writing us because I wear out the
soles of my shoes for running to the mailbox to see if there is a letter from you. There will never be
any home in which you are so loved as in that in Brussels, so, you little bad boy, hurry up and come
back"[33] In 2007, Slachmuylders' group arranged for an historical marker honoring Rizal to be
placed at the house.[33]
The content of Rizal's writings changed considerably in his two most famous novels, Noli Me
Tngere, published in Berlin in 1887, and El Filibusterismo, published in Ghent in 1891. For the
latter, he used funds borrowed from his friends. These writings angered both the Spanish colonial
elite and many educated Filipinos due to their symbolism. They are critical of Spanish friars and the
power of the Church. Rizal's friend Ferdinand Blumentritt, an Austria-Hungary-born professor and
historian, wrote that the novel's characters were drawn from real life and that every episode can be
repeated on any day in the Philippines.[34]
Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in the former Austro-Hungarian
Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him from writing the
preface of El filibusterismo after he had translated Noli Me Tngere into German. As Blumentritt had
warned, these books resulted in Rizal's being prosecuted as the inciter of revolution. He was
eventually tried by the military, convicted and executed. Teaching the natives where they stood
brought about an adverse reaction, as thePhilippine Revolution of 1896 took off virulently thereafter.
Leaders of the reform movement in Spain: Left to right: Rizal, del Pilar, and Ponce (c. 1890).
As leader of the reform movement of Filipino students in Spain, Rizal contributed essays, allegories,
poems, and editorials to the Spanish newspaper La Solidaridad in Barcelona (in this case Rizal used
a pen name, Dimasalang). The core of his writings centers on liberal and progressive ideas of
individual rights and freedom; specifically, rights for the Filipino people. He shared the same
sentiments with members of the movement: that the Philippines is battling, in Rizal's own words, "a
double-faced Goliath"corrupt friars and bad government. His commentaries reiterate the following
agenda:[note 7]
Equal rights before the law (for both Filipino and Spanish plaintiffs)
The colonial authorities in the Philippines did not favor these reforms. Such Spanish intellectuals as
Morayta, Unamuno, Pi y Margall, and others did endorse them.
Wenceslao Retana, a political commentator in Spain, had slighted Rizal by writing an insulting article
in La Epoca, a newspaper in Madrid. He implied that the family and friends of Rizal were evicted
from their lands in Calamba for not having paid their due rents. The incident (when Rizal was ten)
stemmed from an accusation that Rizal's mother, Teodora, tried to poison the wife of a cousin, but
she said she was trying to help. With the approval of the Church prelates, and without a hearing, she
was ordered to prison in Santa Cruz in 1871. She was made to walk the ten miles (16 km) from
Calamba. She was released after two-and-a-half years of appeals to the highest court. [23] In 1887,
Rizal wrote a petition on behalf of the tenants of Calamba, and later that year led them to speak out
against the friars' attempts to raise rent. They initiated a litigation which resulted in the Dominicans'
evicting them from their homes, including the Rizal family. General Valeriano Weyler had the
buildings on the farm torn down.
Upon reading the article, Rizal sent a representative to challenge Retana to a duel. Retana
published a public apology and later became one of Rizal's biggest admirers, writing Rizal's most
important biography, Vida y Escritos del Jos Rizal.[35][note 8]
Rizal was implicated in the activities of the nascent rebellion and in July 1892, was deported
to Dapitan in the province of Zamboanga, a peninsula ofMindanao.[36] There he built a school, a
hospital and a water supply system, and taught and engaged in farming and horticulture. [citation
needed]
Abaca, then the vital raw material for cordage and which Rizal and his students planted in the
thousands, was a memorial.[citation needed]
The boys' school, which taught in Spanish, and included English as a foreign language (considered
a prescient if unusual option then) was conceived by Rizal and antedated Gordonstoun with its aims
of inculcating resourcefulness and self-sufficiency in young men.[citation needed] They would later enjoy
successful lives as farmers and honest government officials. [citation needed] One, a Muslim, became a datu,
and another, Jos Aseniero, who was with Rizal throughout the life of the school, became Governor
of Zamboanga.[37][citation needed]
In Dapitan, the Jesuits mounted a great effort to secure his return to the fold led by Fray Francisco
de Paula Snchez, his former professor, who failed in his mission. The task was resumed by
Fray Pastells, a prominent member of the Order. In a letter to Pastells, Rizal sails close to the
ecumenism familiar to us today.[38]
We are entirely in accord in admitting the existence of God. How can I doubt His when I am
convinced of mine. Who so recognizes the effect recognizes the cause. To doubt God is to doubt
one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life
for? Now then, my faith in God, if the result of a ratiocination may be called faith, is blind, blind in the
sense of knowing nothing. I neither believe nor disbelieve the qualities which many attribute to Him;
before theologians' and philosophers' definitions and lucubrations of this ineffable and inscrutable
being I find myself smiling. Faced with the conviction of seeing myself confronting the supreme
Problem, which confused voices seek to explain to me, I cannot but reply: It could be; but the God
that I foreknow is far more grand, far more good: Plus Supra!...I believe in (revelation); but not in
revelation or revelations which each religion or religions claim to possess. Examining them
impartially, comparing them and scrutinizing them, one cannot avoid discerning the human
'fingernail' and the stamp of the time in which they were written... No, let us not make God in our
image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However, brilliant and
sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an
instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean
of light. I believe in revelation, but in that living revelation which surrounds us on every side, in that
voice, mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it
proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until
we die. What books can better reveal to us the goodness of God, His love, His providence, His
eternity, His glory, His wisdom? The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth
his handiwork.[39]
His best friend, professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, kept him in touch with European friends and fellowscientists who wrote a stream of letters which arrived in Dutch, French, German and English and
which baffled the censors, delaying their transmittal. Those four years of his exile coincided with the
development of the Philippine Revolution from inception and to its final breakout, which, from the
viewpoint of the court which was to try him, suggested his complicity in it. [24] He condemned the
uprising, although all the members of the Katipunan had made him their honorary president and had
used his name as a cry for war, unity, and liberty.[40]
He is known to making the resolution of bearing personal sacrifice instead of the incoming
revolution, believing that a peaceful stand is the best way to avoid further suffering in the country
and loss of Filipino lives. In Rizal's own words, "I consider myself happy for being able to suffer a
little for a cause which I believe to be sacred [...]. I believe further that in any undertaking, the more
one suffers for it, the surer its success. If this be fanaticism may God pardon me, but my poor
judgment does not see it as such."[41]
In Dapitan, Rizal wrote "Haec Est Sibylla Cumana", a parlor-game for his students, with questions
and answers for which a wooden top was used. In 2004, Jean Paul Verstraeten traced this book and
the wooden top, as well as Rizal's personal watch, spoon and salter.
Execution
Moments before his execution on December 30, 1896, by a squad of Filipino soldiers of the Spanish
Army, a backup force of regular Spanish Army troops stood ready to shoot the executioners should
they fail to obey orders.[42] The Spanish Army Surgeon General requested to take his pulse: it was
normal. Aware of this the Sergeant commanding the backup force hushed his men to silence when
they began raising "vivas" with the highly partisan crowd of Peninsular and Mestizo Spaniards.
His last words were those of Jesus Christ: "consummatum est", it is finished.[20][43][note 9]
He was secretly buried in Pac Cemetery in Manila with no identification on his grave. His sister
Narcisa toured all possible gravesites and found freshly turned earth at the cemetery with guards
posted at the gate. Assuming this could be the most likely spot, there never having any ground
burials, she made a gift to the caretaker to mark the site "RPJ", Rizal's initials in reverse.
His undated poem, Mi ltimo adis believed to be written a few days before his execution, was
hidden in an alcohol stove, which was later handed to his family with his few remaining possessions,
including the final letters and his last bequests.[44]:91 During their visit, Rizal reminded his sisters in
English, "There is something inside it", referring to the alcohol stove given by the Pardo de Taveras
which was to be returned after his execution, thereby emphasizing the importance of the poem. This
instruction was followed by another, "Look in my shoes", in which another item was secreted.
Exhumation of his remains in August 1898, under American rule, revealed he had been uncoffined,
his burial not on sanctified ground granted the 'confessed' faithful, and whatever was in his shoes
had disintegrated. And now he is buried in Rizal Monument in Manila. [23]
In his letter to his family he wrote: "Treat our aged parents as you would wish to be treated...Love
them greatly in memory of me...December 30, 1896."[24] He gave his family instructions for his burial:
"Bury me in the ground. Place a stone and a cross over it. My name, the date of my birth and of my
death. Nothing more. If later you wish to surround my grave with a fence, you can do it. No
anniversaries."[45]
In his final letter, to Blumentritt Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of
rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.[24] Rizal is believed to be the first Filipino
revolutionary whose death is attributed entirely to his work as a writer; and through dissent and civil
disobedience enabled him to successfully destroy Spain's moral primacy to rule. He also
bequeathed a book personally bound by him in Dapitan to his 'best and dearest friend.' When
Blumentritt received it in his hometown Litomice(Leitmeritz) he broke down and wept.
Poetry
A La Juventud Filipina
Briayle Crismarl
Dalit sa Paggawa
Felicitacin
Kundiman (Tagalog)
Me Piden Versos
Mi primera inspiracion
Mi Retiro
Mi Ultimo Adis
Sa Sanggol na si Jesus
To My Muse (A Mi Musa)
Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo
A Man in Dapitan
Plays
Other works
Rizal also tried his hand at painting and sculpture. His most famous sculptural work was "The
Triumph of Science over Death", a clay sculpture of a naked young woman with overflowing hair,
standing on a skull while bearing a torch held high. The woman symbolized the ignorance of
humankind during the Dark Ages, while the torch she bore symbolized the enlightenment science
brings over the whole world. He sent the sculpture as a gift to his dear friend Ferdinand Blumentritt,
together with another one named "The Triumph of Death over Life".
The woman is shown trampling the skull, a symbol of death, to signify the victory the humankind
achieved by conquering the bane of death through their scientific advancements. The original
sculpture is now displayed at the Rizal Shrine Museum at Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila. A
large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of Fernando Caldern Hall, the building which
houses the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines Manila along Pedro Gil Street in
Ermita, Manila.
Retraction controversy
Several historians report that Rizal retracted his anti-Catholic ideas through a document which
stated: "I retract with all my heart whatever in my words, writings, publications and conduct have
been contrary to my character as a son of the Catholic Church."[note 10] However, there are doubts of its
authenticity given that there is no certificate of Rizal's Catholic marriage to Josephine Bracken.
[51]
Also there is an allegation that the retraction document was a forgery.[52]
After analyzing six major documents of Rizal, Ricardo Pascual concluded that the retraction
document, said to have been discovered in 1935, was not in Rizal's handwriting. Senator Rafael
Palma, a former President of the University of the Philippines and a prominent Mason, argued that a
retraction is not in keeping with Rizal's character and mature beliefs.[53] He called the retraction story
a "pious fraud."[54] Others who deny the retraction are Frank Laubach,[20] a Protestant minister; Austin
Coates,[29] a British writer; and Ricardo Manapat, director of the National Archives.[55]
Those who affirm the authenticity of Rizal's retraction are prominent Philippine historians such
as Nick Joaquin,[note 11]Nicolas Zafra of UP[56] Len Mara Guerrero III,[note 12] Gregorio Zaide,[58] Guillermo
Gmez Rivera, Ambeth Ocampo,[55]John Schumacher,[59] Antonio Molina,[60] Paul Dumol[61] and Austin
Craig.[23] They take the retraction document as authentic, having been judged as such by a foremost
expert on the writings of Rizal, Teodoro Kalaw (a 33rd degree Mason) and "handwriting
experts...known and recognized in our courts of justice", H. Otley Beyer and Dr. Jos I. Del Rosario,
both of UP.[56]
Historians also refer to 11 eyewitnesses when Rizal wrote his retraction, signed a Catholic prayer
book, and recited Catholic prayers, and the multitude who saw him kiss the crucifix before his
execution. A great grand nephew of Rizal, Fr. Marciano Guzman, cites that Rizal's
4confessions were certified by 5 eyewitnesses, 10 qualified witnesses, 7 newspapers, and 12
historians and writers including Aglipayan bishops, Masons and anti-clericals. [62] One witness was the
head of the Spanish Supreme Court at the time of his notarized declaration and was highly
esteemed by Rizal for his integrity.[63]
Because of what he sees as the strength these direct evidence have in the light of the historical
method, in contrast with merelycircumstantial evidence, UP professor emeritus of history Nicolas
Zafra called the retraction "a plain unadorned fact of history." [56] Guzmn attributes the denial of
retraction to "the blatant disbelief and stubbornness" of some Masons. [62]
Supporters see in the retraction Rizal's "moral courage...to recognize his mistakes," [58][note
13]
his reversion to the "true faith", and thus his "unfading glory,"[63] and a return to the "ideals of his
fathers" which "did not diminish his stature as a great patriot; on the contrary, it increased that
stature to greatness."[66] On the other hand, senator Jose Dioknostated, "Surely whether Rizal died
as a Catholic or an apostate adds or detracts nothing from his greatness as a Filipino... Catholic or
Mason, Rizal is still Rizal the hero who courted death 'to prove to those who deny our patriotism
that we know how to die for our duty and our beliefs'."[67]
She witnessed the Tejeros Convention prior to returning to Manila and was summoned by
the Governor-General, but owing to her stepfather's American citizenship she could not be forcibly
deported. She left voluntarily returning to Hong Kong. She later married another Filipino, Vicente
Abad, a mestizo acting as agent for the Tabacalera firm in the Philippines. She died
of tubercolosis in Hong Kong in March 15, 1902, and was buried at the Happy Valley Cemetery.
[72]
She was immortalized by Rizal in the last stanza of Mi Ultimo Adios: "Farewell, sweet stranger, my
friend, my joy...".
Rizal Shrine in Calamba City, Laguna, the ancestral house and birthplace of Jos Rizal, is now a museum
housing Rizal memorabilia.
Jos Rizal's original grave at Paco Park in Manila. Slightly renovated and date repainted in English.
The veracity of both claims seems to be justified and hence difficult to ascertain. However, most
historians agree that a majority of Filipinos were unaware of Rizal during his lifetime, [83] as he was a
member of the richer elite classes (he was born in an affluent family, had lived abroad for nearly as
long as he had lived in the Philippines) and wrote primarily in an elite language (at that
time, Tagalog andCebuano were the languages of the masses) about ideals as lofty as freedom (the
masses were more concerned about day to day issues like earning money and making a living,
something which has not changed much today).[84]
Teodoro Agoncillo opines that the Philippine national hero, unlike those of other countries, is not "the
leader of its liberation forces". He gives the opinion that Andrs Bonifacio not replace Rizal as
national hero, like some have suggested, but that be honored alongside him. [85]
Constantino's analysis has been criticised for its polemicism and inaccuracies. [86] The historian Rafael
Palma, contends that the revolution of Bonifacio is a consequence wrought by the writings of Rizal
and that although the Bonifacio's revolver produced an immediate outcome, the pen of Rizal
generated a more lasting achievement.[87]
Critiques of books
Others present him as a man of contradictions. Miguel de Unamuno in "Rizal: the Tagalog Hamlet",
said of him, a soul that dreads the revolution although deep down desires it. He pivots between fear
and hope, between faith and despair.[90] His critics assert this character flaw is translated into his two
novels where he opposes violence in Noli and appears to advocate it in Fili, contrasting Ibarra's
idealism to Simoun's cynicism. His defenders insist this ambivalence is trounced when Simoun is
struck down in the sequel's final chapters, reaffirming the author's resolute stance, Pure and
spotless must the victim be if the sacrifice is to be acceptable.[91]
Many thinkers tend to find the characters of Mara Clara and Ibarra (Noli Me Tngere) poor role
models, Mara Clara being too frail, and young Ibarra being too accepting of circumstances, rather
than being courageous and bold.[92]
In El Filibusterismo, Rizal had Father Florentino say: ...our liberty will (not) be secured at the
sword's point...we must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when a people reaches that
height God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of
cards and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.[91] Rizal's attitude to the Philippine Revolution is
also debated, not only based on his own writings, but also due to the varying eyewitness accounts
of Po Valenzuela, a doctor who in 1895 had consulted Rizal in Dapitan on behalf of Bonifacio and
the Katipunan.
forces since he had studied military science.[note 16] In the event that the Katipunan was discovered
prematurely, they should fight rather than allow themselves to be killed. Valenzuela said to
historian Teodoro Agoncillo that he had lied to the Spanish military authorities about Rizal's true
stance toward a revolution in an attempt to exculpate him. [93]
Before his execution, Rizal wrote a proclamation denouncing the revolution. But as noted by
historian Floro Quibuyen, his final poem Mi ultimo adios contains a stanza which equates his coming
execution and the rebels then dying in battle as fundamentally the same, as both are dying for their
country.[94]
Legacy
Rizal was a contemporary of Gandhi, Tagore and Sun Yat Sen who also advocated liberty through
peaceful means rather than by violent revolution. Coinciding with the appearance of those other
leaders, Rizal from an early age had been enunciating in poems, tracts and plays, ideas all his own
of modern nationhood as a practical possibility in Asia. In the Noli he stated that if European
civilization had nothing better to offer, colonialism in Asia was doomed.[note 17]
Though popularly mentioned, especially on blogs, there is no evidence to suggest that Gandhi or
Nehru may have corresponded with Rizal, neither have they mentioned him in any of their memoirs
or letters. But it was documented by Rizal's biographer, Austin Coates who interviewed Jawaharlal
Nehru and Gandhi that Rizal was mentioned, specifically in Nehru's prison letters to his daughter
Indira.[95][96]
As a political figure, Jos Rizal was the founder of La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that
subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led by Andrs Bonifacio,[note 18], a secret society which would
start the Philippine Revolution against Spain that eventually laid the foundation of the First Philippine
Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo. He was a proponent of achieving Philippine self-government
peacefully through institutional reform rather than through violent revolution, and would only support
"violent means" as a last resort.[98] Rizal believed that the only justification for national liberation and
self-government was the restoration of the dignity of the people,[note 19] saying "Why independence, if
the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"[99] However, through careful examination of his
works and statements, including Mi Ultimo Adios, Rizal reveals himself as a revolutionary. His image
as the Tagalog Christ also intensified early reverence to him.
Rizal, through his reading of Morga and other western historians, knew of the genial image of
Spain's early relations with his people.[100] In his writings, he showed the disparity between the early
colonialists and those of his day, with the latter's injustices giving rise to Gomburzaand the Philippine
Revolution of 1896. The English biographer, Austin Coates, and writer, Benedict Anderson, believe
that Rizal gave the Philippine revolution a genuinely national character; and that Rizal's patriotism
and his standing as one of Asia's first intellectuals have inspired others of the importance of a
national identity to nation-building.[29][note 20]
The Belgian researcher Jean Paul "JP" Verstraeten authored several books about Jose Rizal: Rizal
in Belgium and France, Jose Rizal's Europe, Growing up like Rizal (published by the National
Historical Institute and in teacher's programs all over the Philippines), Reminiscences and Travels of
Jose Rizal and Jose Rizal "Pearl of Unselfishness". He received an award from the president of the
Philippines "in recognition of his unwavering support and commitment to promote the health and
education of disadvantaged Filipinos, and his invaluable contribution to engender the teachings and
ideals of Dr. Jose Rizal in the Philippines and in Europe". One of the greatest researchers about
Rizal nowadays is Lucien Spittael.
Several titles were bestowed on him: "the First Filipino", "Greatest Man of the Brown Race", among
others. The Order of the Knights of Rizal, a civic and patriotic organization, boasts of dozens of
chapters all over the globe [3] [4]. There are some remote-area religious sects who claim him as a
sublimation of Christ.[102] In September 1903, he wascanonised as a saint in the Iglesia Filipina
Independiente, however it was revoked in the 1950s.[103]
Historical commemoration
Although his field of action lay in politics, Rizal's real interests lay in
the arts and sciences, in literature and in his profession as an
ophthalmologist. Shortly after his death, the Anthropological Society
The Rizal Monument now stands near the place where he fell at the
Luneta in Bagumbayan, which is now called Rizal Park, a national
park in Manila. The monument, which also contains his remains,
was designed by the Swiss Richard Kissling of the William
Tell sculpture in Altdorf, Uri.[note 21] The monument carries the
inscription: "I want to show to those who deprive people the right to
love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for
our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for
those one loves for his country and for others dear to him." [24]
The Taft Commission in June 1901 approved Act 137 renaming the
District of Morong into the Province of Rizal. Today, the wide
acceptance of Rizal is evidenced by the countless towns, streets,
and numerous parks in the Philippines named in his honor.
Republic Act 1425, known as the Rizal Law, was passed in 1956 by
the Philippine legislature requiring all high school and colleges to
offer courses about his life, works and writings.
The National Historical Institute logo for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Jos
Rizal
The Hong Kong Government erected a plaque beside Dr. Jos Rizal's
residence in Hong Kong
his movie version of El Filibusterismo, making him the only person to win back-to-back FAMAS
Awards posthumously.[citation needed]
Both novels were translated into opera by the composer-librettist Felipe Padilla de Len: Noli me
tangere in 1957 and El filibusterismo in 1970; and his 1939 overture, Mariang Makiling, was inspired
by Rizal's tale of the same name.[122]
Portrayed by Eddie del Mar in the 1956 film, Ang Buhay at Pag-ibig
ni Dr. Jose Rizal
The Jos Rizal Bridge and Rizal Park in the city of Seattle are
dedicated to Rizal.[123]
Others
"One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good
opportunity is lost and will not present itself again."
"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from
will never get to his destination.
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Inez de la Rosa
Eugenio Ursua
Francisco Mercado
Bernarda Monicha
Cirila Alejandro
Manuel Alonso
Narcisa Rizal
Paciano Rizal
Clemente Mercado
Manuel de Quintos
Lucia Rizal
Olympia Rizal
Juan Alonso
Jos Rizal
Mara Rizal
Gregorio Alonso
Josefa Rizal
Concepcin Rizal
Trinidad Rizal
See also
Makamisa
Jump up^ When Jos was baptized, the record showed his parents
as Francisco Rizal Mercado and Teodora Realonda."Jos Rizals
Lineage"
2.
Jump up^ His novel Noli was one of the first novels in Asia written
outside Japan and China and was one of the first novels of anticolonial rebellion. Read Benedict Anderson's commentary: [1].
3.
4.
5.
6.
Jump up^ Dr. Reinhold Rost was the head of the India Office at the
British Museum and a renowned 19th century philologist.
7.
8.
9.
14. Jump up^ Rizal's third novel Makamisa was rescued from oblivion by
Ocampo.
15. Jump up^ Bonifacio later mobilized his men to attempt to liberate
Rizal while in Fort Santiago. (Laubach, op.cit., chap. 15)
16. Jump up^ Antonio Luna denounced the Katipunan, but became a
general under Emilio Aguinaldo's First Republic and fought in
the PhilippineAmerican War.
17. Jump up^ Also stated in Rizal's essay, "The Philippines: A Century
Hence", The batteries are gradually becoming charged and if the
prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the
currents that are accumulating, someday the sparks will be
generated. (read etext at Project Gutenberg)
18. Jump up^ Bonifacio was a member of La Liga Filipina. After Rizal's
arrest and exile, it was disbanded and the group splintered into two
factions; the more radical group formed into the Katipunan, the militant
arm of the insurrection.[97]
19. Jump up^ Rizal's annotations of Morga's Sucesos de las islas
Filipinas (1609), which he copied word for word from the British
Museum and had published, called attention to an antiquated book, a
testimony to the well-advanced civilization in the Philippines during
pre-Spanish era. In his essay "The Indolence of the Filipino" Rizal
stated that three centuries of Spanish rule did not do much for the
advancement of his countryman; in fact there was a 'retrogression',
and the Spanish colonialists have transformed him into a 'half-way
brute.' The absence of moral stimulus, the lack of material inducement,
the demoralization--'the indio should not be separated from
his carabao', the endless wars, the lack of a national sentiment, the
Chinese piracyall these factors, according to Rizal, helped the
colonial rulers succeed in placing the indio 'on a level with the beast'.
(Read English translation by Charles Derbyshire at Project
Gutenberg.)
20. Jump up^ According to Anderson, Rizal is one of the best exemplars
of nationalist thinking.[101] (See also Nitroglycerine in the Pomegranate,
Benedict Anderson, New Left Review 27, MayJune 2004 (subscription
required))
21. Jump up^ Rizal himself translated Schiller's William Tell into Tagalog
in 1886.[108]
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Jos Rizal (1997). Prophecies of Jose Rizal about the Philippines: From
the Pen of the Visionary National Hero, Phenomenal Revelations and
Coded Messages about Events Past, Present and Future : Destiny of the
Philippines ... Rex Bookstore, Inc. ISBN 978-971-23-2240-2.
Zaide, Gregorio F. (2003) Jos Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a Genius,
Writer, Scientist and National Hero. Manila: National Bookstore. ISBN 97108-0520-7
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