Key
Points:• June 19, 1861,
Wednesday, between
Eleven o’clock and
midnight
• Jose Rizal has a very
big head.
• June 22, 1861, baptized
by Fr. Rufino
Collantes
• “Jose” inspired by
San Jose (St. Joseph)
Key
Points:• His GodFather was Fr. Pedro
Casanas
“Take good care of this
child, for someday he will
become a great man.”• “Memorias De Un Estudyante De
Manila”
Domingo Lamco
Isabel de la Rosa
Francisco Mercado
CirilaBernacha
Juan Mercado
CirilaAlejandro
Francisco Mercado
Eugenio Ursua
Benigna
ReginaManuel de
Quintos
BrigidaLorenzo Alberto Alonso
TeodoraAlonso
Jose Rizal
Francisco Mercado (1818 –
1898) • May 11, 1818 – Binan,
Laguna
• College of San Jose in
Manila
• Tenant-farmer of
Dominican-owned
hacienda
• “A model of fathers” – Memoirs of
Teodora Alonso (1826 – 1911)
• November 8, 1826 –
Manila
• College of Sta. Rosa
• Died August 16, 1911
• Rejected government
life pension
• “My mother is a woman of more than ordinary culture; she knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I. She corrected my poems and gave me good advice when I was studying rhetoric. She is a mathematician and
Teodora Alonso (1826 – 1911)
Rizal in his letter to
Blumentritt:I am the only Rizal because at home
my parents, my sisters, my brother, and
my relatives have always preferred our
old surname Mercado. Our family name
was in fact Mercado, but there were
many Mercados in the Philippines who
were not related to us.
Rizal in his letter to
Blumentritt:It is said that an alcalde mayor, who was
a friend of our family added Rizal to our
name. My family did not pay much
attention to this, but now I have to use it.
In this way, it seems that I am an
illegitimate son.