CHILDHOOD DAY

IN CALAMBA
LAGUNA
 DR.JOSE RIZAL
• José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso
Realonda was born on June 19, 1861,
in the town of Calamba, Laguna.
• He was baptized JOSE RIZAL
MERCADO at the Catholic of
Calamba by the parish priest Rev.
Rufino Collantes with Rev. Pedro
Casañas as the sponsor.
• 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.
• SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913) Eldest child
of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel
Timoteo Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas.
 • PACIANO RIZAL (1851-1930) 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.
 • NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939) The third child.
married Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a
teacher and musician.
• OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887) The fourth
child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887
from childbirth.
• LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919) The fifth child.
Married MatrianoHerbosa.
• MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945) The sixth child.
Married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan,
Laguna.
• JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896) The second son and
the seventh child. He was executed by the
Spaniards on December 30,1896.
 • CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865) The eight
child. Died at the age of three.
 • JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945) The ninth child.
An epileptic, died a spinster.
• TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951) The tenth
child. Died a spinster and the last of the family
to die.
• SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929) The youngest
child married Pantaleon Quintero.
 • Jose Rizal’s first teacher was his mother,
who had taught him how to read and pray
and who had encouraged him to write
poetry. Later, private tutors taught the
young Rizal Spanish and Latin, before he
was sent to a private school in Biñan.
• Rizal first studied under Justiniano
Aquino Cruz in Biñan, Laguna before he
was sent to Manila. As to his father's
request, he took the entrance
examination in Colegio de San Juan de
Letran and studied there for almost three
months. The Dominican friars asked him
to transfer to another school due to his
radical and bold questions.
• When he was 11 years old, Rizal
entered the Ateneo Municipal de
Manila. He earned excellent marks in
subjects like philosophy, physics,
chemistry, and natural history. At this
school, he read novels; wrote prize-
winning poetry (and even a
melodrama—“Junto al Pasig”); and
practiced drawing, painting, and clay
modeling, all of which remained
lifelong interests for him.
• Rizal eventually earned a land
surveyor’s and assessor’s degree from
the Ateneo Municipal while taking up
Philosophy and Letters at the
University of Santo Tomas. Upon
learning that his mother was going
blind, Rizal opted to study
ophthalmology at the UST Faculty of
Medicine and Surgery. He, however,
was not able to complete the course
because “he became politically
isolated by adversaries among the
faculty and clergy who demanded that
he assimilate to their system.”
• 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. Also, 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.
 • Rizal, 11 years old, a student at the
Ateneo Municipal de Manila.
• José Rizal as a student at the
University of Santo Tomas.
• José was designed by nature to be an artist.
This he revealed before he was five years of age,
for without any assistance from others he
began to draw with his pencil and to mould in
wax or clay any object he saw about him.
Fortunately, his mother, father, and uncles
recognized this unusual talent and gave him
every encouragement.
 • A Group of Sketches by Rizal.
• There was a also a time when Rizal was able
to draw a bird flying nearby without lifting the
pencil he was using from the paper till the
picture he drew was finished. He can also draw
a running horse and a chasing dog. • Jose Rizal
also owned a pony and used it to have long
rides into the surrounding country which was
rich in scenery. He also took long walks
together with his big black dog named Usman.
He also loved to play with the doves in his
neighborhood. He learned about the myths
and legends in Laguna after sleeping through
the nut in a little straw hut used by Laguna
farmers during the harvest season. Rizal was
also good in hand tricks which he perfected to
amaze the simple folk and performed magic
lantern exhibitions.
 • The little boy spent also much of his time in
the church, which was conveniently near, but
when the mother suggested that this might be
an indication of religious inclination, his
prompt response was that he liked to watch
the people. • Even in his childhood, Rizal
already knew how to respect the rights of
others and requested his elders to reason with
him rather than get mad at him for small
offenses. He became a welcome companion
for adults even at his young age since he
respected their moods and was never a
hindrance to their activities.
• Three uncles who were brothers of his
mother also had much influence on the early
childhood of Jose Rizal. The youngest uncle
named Jose, took care of teaching regular
lessons to Rizal. His huge uncle Manuel
developed his physique until he had a body of
silk and steel and no longer a skinny and
sickly boy. The last uncle, Gregorio instilled in
the mind of Rizal that it was not easy to
obtain something until you put effort into it.
• The childhood of Jose Rizal can be
characterized by his desire to learn, even
frequenting the church nearby his home to
watch and observe people but not to be
religiously inclined. Jose Rizal was not a
physically blessed or strong child however,
he had a strong will guided and taught by his
mother, his first teacher. He learned almost
without the use of books. His mother was the
one who laid the foundation of his great
knowledge achieved in such a short time. His
brilliance was also the character of the young
Jose Rizal.
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