ANNE PRINCESS F.

WONG
BSSW III
FEBRUARY 20, 2022

1. What are the salient provisions of Rizal Law (R.A. 1425)

AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE CURRICULA OF ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES COURSES ON THE LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS OF JOSE
RIZAL, PARTICULARLY HIS NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO,
AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

2. What are the important issuances relative to the implementations of Rizal Law?
Important Issuances Relative to the Implementation of Rizal Law Approval of
R.A. 1425 on June 12, 1956 Presidential Memorandum Order 247 dated Dec. 26, 1994 –
President Ramos directed the DECS and CHED to immediately and fully implement R.A.
1425.

3. Why is Jose Rizal our National Hero?

Rizal is our greatest hero because, as a towering figure in the Propaganda
Campaign, he took an “admirable part” in that movement which roughly covered the
period from 1882-1896.
Rizal’s writings contributed tremendously to the formation of Filipino nationality.
Rizal becomes the greatest Filipino hero because no Filipino has yet been born
who could equal or surpass Rizal as “a person of distinguished valor or enterprise in
danger, or fortitude in suffering.”
Rizal is the greatest Filipino hero that ever lived because he is “a man honored
after death by public worship, because of exceptional service to mankind.”

4. Who made Jose Rizal our foremost national hero?

No single person or groups of persons were responsible for making the Greatest
Malayan the Number One Hero of his people. Rizal himself, his own people, and the
foreigners all together contributed to make him the greatest hero and martyr of his
people. No amount of adulation and canonization by both Filipinos and foreigners could
convert Rizal into a great hero if he did not possess in himself what Palma calls
“excellent qualities and merits”
5. Briefly trace the biography of Jose Rizal to include the paternal and maternal
ancestors.
JOSE RIZAL, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was
the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were
educated and belonged to distinguished families.
His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called "a
model of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y
Quintos, a highly cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and
prudent mother," was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila.
At the age of 3, he learned the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while learning to
read and write, he already showed inclinations to be an artist. He astounded his family
and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings of clay. At the age
8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Aking Mga Kabata," the theme of which revolves on the
love of one’s language.
In 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with an
average of "excellent" from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. He finished the latter
course on March 21, 1877 and passed the Surveyor’s examination on May 21, 1878; but
because of his age, 17, he was not granted license to practice the profession until
December 30, 1881.
In 1878, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to
stop in his studies when he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated upon
by their Dominican tutors.
On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he continued his studies at the
Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was conferred the
degree of Licentiate in Medicine and on June 19,1885, at the age of 24, he finished his
course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of "excellent."
Having traveled extensively in Europe, America and Asia, he mastered 22
languages. These include Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayan, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish,
Tagalog, and other native dialects. A versatile genius, he was an architect, artists,
businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian,
inventor, journalist, linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, naturalist, novelist,
opthalmic surgeon, poet, propagandist, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist, and
theologian.
In the hope of securing political and social reforms for his country and at the
same time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest apostle of Filipino nationalism,
published, while in Europe, several works with highly nationalistic and revolutionary
tendencies.
While a political exile in Dapitan, he engaged in agriculture, fishing and business;
he maintained and operated a hospital; he conducted classes- taught his pupils the
English and Spanish languages, the arts.
 July 6,1892, he was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, on the charge of instigating
unrest against Spain, he Was exiled to Dapitan, in northwestern Mindanao. He remained
in exile for four years, while he Was in political exile in Dapitan, he practiced medicine,
he established a school for boys,Promoted community development projects, he
applied his knowledge in engineering by Constructing a system of waterworks in order
to furnish clean water to the townspeople. In dapitan he also met, fell in love and lived
with Josephine Bracken.
In 1896, the Katipunan, a Nationalist secret society, launched a revolt against the
Spaniards, although Jose Rizal had no Connection with the organization, his enemies
were able to link him with the revolt. To avoid Being involved in the move to start a
revolution, he asked Governor Ramon Blanco to send him To Cuba but instead he was
brought back to Manila and jailed for the second time in Fort Santiago.
On December 26, 1896, after a trial, Rizal was sentenced to die, he was convicted
of Rebellion, sedition, and of forming an illegal association. On the eve of his execution
while Confined in Fort Santiago, Rizal wrote a poem Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell)
and hid it Inside the gas burner and gave the gas burner to his sister Trinidad and his
wife Josephine.
He was executed on December 30, 1896 at the age of 35 by a firing squad at
Bagumbayan, now Known as Luneta Park in Manila. Jose Rizal was a man of many
accomplishments – a linguist, a Novelist, a poet, a scientist, a doctor, a painter, an
educator, a reformer and a visionary, he left His people his greatest patriotic poem, Mi
Ultimo Adios to serve as an inspiration for the next Generations.
THE RIZAL CHILDREN
1. Saturnina (1850-1913)
 oldest of the Rizal children
 nicknamed Neneng
 married Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batangas
2. Paciano (1851-1930)
 older brother and confident of Jose Rizal
 was a second father to Rizal immortalized him in Rizal’s first novel
Noli Me Tangere as the wise Pilosopo Tasio
 Rizal regarded him as the “most noble of Filipinos”
 became a combat general in the Philippine Revolution
 died on April 13, 1930, an old bachelor aged 79
 had two children by his mistress (Severina Decena)—a boy and a girl
3. Narcisa (1852-1939)
 her pet name was Sisa
 married to Antonio Lopez (nephew of Father Leoncio Lopez), a school
teacher of Morong
4. Olimpia (1855-1887)
 Ypia was her pet name
  married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila
5. Lucia (1857-1919)
 married to Mariano Herbosa of Calamba, who was a nephew of
Father Casanas
 Herbosa died of cholera in 1889 and was denied Christian burial
because he was a brother-in-law of Dr. Rizal
6. Maria (1859-1945)
 Biang was her nickname
 married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna
7. Jose (1861-1896)
 the greatest Filipino hero and peerless genius
 nickname was Pepe
 lived with Josephine Bracken, Irish girl from Hong Kong
 had a son but this baby-boy died a few hours after birth; Rizal named
him “Francisco” after his father and buried him in Dapitan.
8. Concepcion (1862-1865)
 her pet name was Concha
 died of sickness at the age of 3
 her death was Rizal’s first sorrow in life
9. Josefa (1865-1945)
 her pet name was Panggoy
 died an old maid at the age of 80
10. Trinidad (1868-1951)
 Trining was her pet name
 she died also an old maid in 1951 aged 83
11. Soledad (1870-1929)
 youngest of the Rizal children
 her pet name was Choleng
 married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba

FATHER’S SIDE

Domingo Lamco ↔ Ines de la Rosa

(A Chinese immigrant from the Fukien city arrived in Manila about 1690 while de
la Rosa is a Well-to-do Chinese Christian girl of Changchow)

Francisco Mercado ↔ Cirila Bernacha

Juan Mercado (Rizal’s grandfather) ↔ Cirila Alejandro

had thirteen children, the youngest being Francisco Mercado (Rizal’s Father)
Doña Teodora Alonso Realonda (1826-1911)
 -born in Manila on November 8, 1826. Educated at the College of Santa Rosa, a
well-known College for girls in the city. A remarkable woman, possessing refined
culture, literary talent,Business ability, and the fortitude of Spartan women. She is a
woman of more than ordinary Culture: she knows literature and speaks Spanish
(according to Rizal). She died in Manila on August 16, 1911 at the age of 85.

MOTHER’S SIDE:

Lakandula
(The last native king of Tondo)

Eugenio Ursua (Rizal’s maternal Great-great Grandfather of Japanese Ancestry)

↔ Benigma (a Filipina)

Regina ↔ Manuel de Quintos (a Filipino from Pangasinan)

Brigida ↔ Lorenzo Alberto Alonso (a prominent Spanish Filipino mestizo of

Biñan)
Narcisa, Teodora (Rizal’s mother), Gregorio, Manuel at Jose

6. Name/enumerate the writings of Dr. Jose Rizal and identify each writing/literary
works as to Prose and Poetry.

PROSE POETRY
La Solidaridad TO MY FELLOW CHILDREN

Noli Mi Tangere MY FIRST INSPIRATION

EL Filibusterismo THROUGHEDUCATION OUR

MOTHERLAND RECEIVES LIGHT

THE INTIMATE ALLIANCE BETWEEN

RELIGION AND GOOD EDUCATION

TO THE CHILD JESUS

TO THE VIRGIN MARY

TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH

Theme: "Grow, O Timid Flower"

THEY ASKED ME FOR VERSES

To the Flowers of Heidelberg

TO THE FILIPINOS

TO MY MUSE

Josephine, Josephine

THE SONG OF THE TRAVELERI

MY RETREAT

KUNDIMAN