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Lecture # 4:

Rizal and
his childhood years

Young Rizal and Calamba

1. Inspiration and springboard to hone
his poetic and artistic sensibilities
(scenic beauty of the town)
2. Hatred toward oppression and
exploitation of the weak (natives) by
the strong (Guardia Civil and
Dominican friars)

Rizal as pious Catholic

3 yrs old: he learned how to pray
even read the Bible
Visits to Fr. Leoncio Lopez: Rizal
learned the value of scholarship and
intellectual honesty

Childhood days & memories

Family garden: closeness to nature
Daily family prayer: Angelus and rosary
Aya/Yaya stories: fairies;
tales of buried treasure and
trees blooming with diamonds and
other fabulous stories

First Sorrow
Pilgrimage to Antipolo (June 6, 1868):
1st trip of Jose Rizal across Laguna de Bay
and 1st t pilgrimage to Antipolo
They rode casco (barge)

Death of Concha
I lost my little sister Concha, and then for the
first time shed tears caused by love and
grief...
- Rizal

Acts of violence

Story of Moth

Committed against the Calambeos by the

Guardia Civil and Governadorcillo

Stories told by Doa Teodora to his son

Rizal wondered if the incidents he witness also exist

in the land across the Laguna Bay

Early demonstration of Inborn Talent

Mater of alphabet
great interest in reading
Sketching
Painting
Sculpture
Literature
Writing peoem

Moth no longer were for me, insignificant

insects. Moths talked; they knew how to
warn. They advised just liked my mother.
The light seemed to me more beautiful. It had
grown more dazzling and more attractive. I
knew why the moths circled the flame.
- Jose Rizal

Kapagka ang bayay

sadyang umiibig
Sa langit salitang
kaloob ng langit

Story of Moth

Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid

Pagkat ang salitay isang kahatulan
Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian

Sanlang kalayaan nasa ring

masapi

At ang isang taoy katulad, kabagay

Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan.
Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita
Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda

Kaya ang marapat pagyamanin kusa

Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala
Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin,

Sa Ingles, Kastila, at salitang anghel,

Sapagkat ang Poong maalam tumingin
Ang siyang naggagawad,
nagbibigay sa atin
Ang salita natiy tulad din sa iba

Influences on the Heros boyhood

Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
Na kaya nawalay dinatnan ng sigwa
Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una

Influences
on the
Heros boyhood

Hereditary Influence
Malayan Ancestors
Love for freedom, innate desire to travel
and indomitable courage

Hereditary Influence

Hereditary Influence

Hereditary Influence

Chinese Ancestors

Spanish Ancestors

Father

Serious nature, frugality,

patience and love for children

Elegance of bearing, sensitivity to insult

and gallantry to ladies

Profound sense of self-respect,

love for work and
the habit of independent thinking

Hereditary Influence
Mother
Religious nature, the spirit of self
sacrifice and passion for arts & literature

Influences on the Heros boyhood

Environmental Influence

Environmental Influence

Scenic beauties of Calamba and

the beautiful garden of the Rizal family:
Stimulated artistic & literary talents of Jose
Rizal

Religious atmosphere:
Fortified Jose Rizals religious nature

Environmental Influence

Paciano:

Environmental Influence

3 uncles (mother side):

Aya:

Instilled in Jose Rizals mind the love for

freedom and justice

Environmental Influence
Tio Jose Alberto:
Artistic ability

During Jose Rizals early childhood

awakened his interest in
folklore & legends

Tio Manuel:
Involved in physical activities
Tio Gregorio:
Love for reading books

Environmental Influence

Environmental Influence

Fr. Leoncio Lopez:

Sorrow of his Family:

Jose Rizals love for scholarship and

intellectual honesty

(death of Concha & imprisonment of

his mother)
Contributed to Jose Rizal strong character

Environmental Influence

Spanish abuses & cruelties:

Brutal acts of government officials
Unjust tortures inflicted on Filipinos
Execution of GomBurZa

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Influences on the Heros boyhood

Lecture 4 part 2:

Aid of Divine Providence

God had endowed him with the versatile

gifts of a genius, vibrant spirit of a
nationalist & the valiant heart to sacrifice
for a noble cause
-Zaide

Rizals
Early Education

Mother:
Teodora Alonso Realonda
taught me how to read and to say haltingly
the humble prayers which I raised fervently
to God

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Teodora Alonso Realonda

Talent for poetry of Jose Rizal
Stories are
incorporated in teaching

Private Tutor
Latin:

Maestro Celestino
and
Maestro Lucas Padua

Private Tutor
Leon Monroy
(Former classmate of Francisco Mercado)

He lived at Rizal home

Spanish and Latin

June 1870

Aunts house

Bian School

Accompanied by Paciano

Jose together with Leandro

went sightseeing in the town

The school was in the house of the teacher

(Jose became depresses)

Jose was only 9 years old during the time

small nipa hut about 30 meters from the

house of Joses Aunt

Maestro
Justiniano Aquino Cruz

Carromata

Bian School

Bian School

Best Student in School

Surpassed all his classmate in
Spanish, Latin and other subjects

Pedro

Andres Salandanan / Pedro Lakundanan

teachers son

Challenged Jose to arm-wrestling

Jose challenged him to a fight

Unfortunately Jose lost & nearly cracked his head

on the side

Jose Rizal won

Learned the art wrestling from Tio Manuel

But Jose usually received punishment

in spite of the reputation I had of being a good
boy, the day was unusual when I was not laid out
on a bench & give five or six blows.

Systematic and Discipline life in Bian

Mass (4 am)
Study his lesson
Breakfast
Attend morning
class (until 10 am)
Went home for
lunch

Attend afternoon
class (2 to 5 pm)
Daily prayer
Study
Suppertime
Played with his
nieces in the street

First taste of injustice

Painting lesson in Bian

End of Bian Schooling

Juancho
Father in-law of Maestro Justiniano

Jose rode the steamer Talim and

went back to Calamba

freely gave Jose lessons in

drawing & painting

December 17, 1871

1 year of schooling

Jose Rizal and Jose Guevarra

became apprentices of the old painter

Frenchman: friend of Francisco

June 1872

Arturo Camps

Secularization

Doa Teodora
Arrest and incarceration of his mother
in1871

arrested because malicious charge

She was forced to walk from
Calamba to Santa Cruz
(50 kilometers )

Regular priest were those who

belonged to the religion orders
and those were not members of any
orders are called Secular priest

2 years

Cavite Mutiny

June 20, 1872

during the height of the secularization,
the Cavite Mutiny occurred.
The mutineers
were workers & some marine detachment

Cause by the revocation of the privilege of

shipyard workers to be exempted from force
labor & paying tributes.
Led by La Madrid
Government believe it to be a rebellion and
arrest Fr. Gomez, Burgos, Zamora and other
for an alleged participation of the said rebellion
Sentenced to banished to Guam while
GomBurZa were sentenced to death

February 17, 1872: Four people were executed

Francisco Zaldua: False witness

Note from Fr. Zamora:

Reunion esta noche, Traiga pulbura y bala

(Meeting tonight bring powder and shot)

Code for betting money in the

panguigue card game

Fr. Zamora:
37 years old
Examiner of priests at Manila Cathedral

He was already insane during the execution

Fr. Gomez:
73 years old
Parish priest of Bacoor

Let us go where the leaves of the trees will not

move without the will of God
Executioner: Father forgive me, for I am going to kill
you

Fr. Burgos:

35 years old
Doctor of theology

Why? What have I done? I am innocent!

O God, Please receive the soul of this inno..

Fr. Gomez: Do your duty, my son

After the execution tolling of the bells

(Arcbishop Meliton Martinez)

People knelt down one by one

Spaniards: signal to attack or the start of a
revolution

Filipino witness the execution

began to think and feel as Filipino
not as Ilocanos, Tagalogs
and others.
That Spaniard treat them as an inferior race.
That as Filipinos the necessity for unity.

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