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Facts About Rizal

What is the complete legal name of Dr. Jose Rizal?

Dr. Jose Protacio Alonso Realonda Mercado Rizal. Jose and Protacio are his baptismal names,Alonso Realonda Mercado Rizal is his family's quadruple surname.

When is the birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal?

June 19, 1861. It was on a moonlit night, between eleven and twelve that Rizal was born.

What is the Spanish name for a Filipino native, which the Filipinos' resented very much?

Indio. Spanish mestizos hatefully call Filipinos 'Indios Chonggo!'

Name Rizal's host at Wilhelmsfeld.

Karl Ulmer. Karl Ulmer helped Dr. Rizal brush up his German language upon knowing that Rizal was having difficulty communicating himself.

At 16, Rizal experienced his first romance. He fell in love with which girl?

Segunda Katigbak. It was on a Sunday when Rizal, together with his friend Mariano Katigbak visited his maternal grandmother in Trozo, Manila that he came upon the most attractive girl---Segunda Katigbak. Segunda was the sister of his friend, Mariano.

Who is the older brother of Dr. Jose Rizal?

Paciano Mercado. Not only was Paciano an older brother of Jose Rizal but he was also more like a father of Rizal.

"Noli me tangere" is a Latin phrase. What does it mean?

Touch me not. 

He was an Austrian and he became the best friend of Dr. Jose Rizal. Who was he?

Dr. Ferdinand Blumettritt. 

Governor General Terrero assigned a bodyguard to Rizal. And between them, a wonderful friendship blossomed. Who was this bodyguard?

Lt. Jose Taviel de Andrada. 

What is the real name of O-Sei-San?

Seiko Usui. Seiko Usui is a Japanese girl whom Rizal fell in love with. Jose Rizal affectionately call her O-Sei-San.

In Calamba, Laguna |

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19 June 1861

JOSE RIZAL, the seventh child of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quintos, was born in Calamba, Laguna.

22 June 1861

He was baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at the Catholic of Calamba by the parish priest Rev. Rufino Collantes...