“Ah, tender childhood, lovely town,

Rich town of my felicities.”

- Jose Rizal
age of 3- Rizal learned the alphabet from
his mother.
- joined family prayers

*Doña Teodora Alonzo y Realonda- first

teacher of Rizal

age of 4- first sorrowful weep of Rizal,

after the death of his younger sister
Concepcion at the age of 3 in the year
1865.
age of 5 - Jose was then able to read the
Spanish Bible haltingly.
- loved to go to church and
joined in processions.
- make sketches using pencil and
mold clay.

*Father Leoncio Lopez– the town

priest, he was respected by Rizal
age of 8 - compose his first nationalist
poem entitled “Sa Aking Mga Kababata”
(To My Fellow Children).

age of 9- Don Francisco Mercado sent his

son to Biñan to continues his studies of
Latin.

*Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz– “tall,

thin, long-necked man, with sharp-nose
and a body bent slightly forward
age of 9- learned painting in the shop of
an old painter named Juancho Carrera.
- Jose wrote a poem for his
mother’s birthday entitled “Mother’s
Birthday”.

*Aya- nurse maid

*Usman- dog of Rizal
*Php 2.00 – for Rizal’s manuscript of his
first drama bought by the
gobernadorcillo of Paete, Laguna
JUNE 6, 1868 – Jose and his
father went to Antipolo

OUR LADY OF PEACE AND

GOOD VOYAGE
Our Lady of Antipolo
INFLUENCE ON HERO’S BOYHOOD

 Hereditary Influence
 Environmental Influence
 Aid of Divine Providence