rizal's life and works

• Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861, in the lakeshore town of Calamba, Laguna.
• Jose Rizal was baptized on June 22, 1861, in the Catholic church by Father Rufino Collantes, a Batangueño, the parish priest.
• Jose Rizal’s godfather was Father Pedro Casanas, a native of Calamba and close friend of the Rizal family.
• Jose Rizal’s parents, Don Francisco Mercado and Doña Teodora Alonso Realonda, were married on June 28, 1848, after which they settled down in Calamba.
• Jose Rizal’s family acquired a second surname—Rizal—which was given by a Spanish alcalde mayor (provincial governor) of Laguna, who was a family friend.
• Lieutenant-General Jose Lemery was the governor general of the Philippines when Jose Rizal was born.
• Doña Teodora Alonso Realonda, born in Manila on November 8, 1826, was educated at the College of Santa Rosa, a well-known college for girls in the city.
• Don Francisco Mercado, born in Biñan, Laguna on May 11, 1818, studied Latin and Philosophy at the College of San Jose in Manila and became a tenant-farmer of the Dominican-owned hacienda.
• The real surname of the Rizal family was Mercado, which was adopted in 1731 by Domingo Lamco, the paternal great-great grandfather of Jose Rizal, who was a full blooded Chinese.
• Rizal suffered one failure during his six months of sojourn in Calamba—his failure to see Leonor Rivera.
• Viola and Rizal parted ways in Geneva, with Viola returning to Barcelona while Rizal continued the tour to Italy.
• Rizal reached Rome, the "Eternal City" and also called the "City of the Caesars", on June 27, 1887.
• Rizal described to Blumentritt the "grandeur" of Rome, writing on June 27, 1887.
• Rizal was outraged by the degradation of his fellow countrymen, the Igorots of Northern Luzon, at the Exposition of the Philippines in Madrid, Spain.
• Rizal's 26th birthday was celebrated in Geneva with Viola.
• Don Jose Taviel de Andrade, a young Spanish lieutenant assigned by Governor General Terrero to pose as bodyguard of Rizal, accompanied Rizal to Malacańang Palace.
• Msgr. Pedro Payo, a Dominican, sent a copy of Noli to Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria of the University of Santo Tomas for examination by a committee of the faculty.
• Rizal returned to Calamba after a week of wonderful sojourn in Rome, where he established a medical clinic and opened a gymnasium for young folks, introducing European sports.
• The permanent commission of censorship found the novel to contain subversive ideas against the Church and Spain, and recommended "that the novel be banned from circulation".
• Rizal visited the Vatican, the "City of the Popes" and the capital of Christendom, for the first time on June 29, 1887, the Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul.
• A permanent commission of censorship, composed of priest and laymen, was formed under the leadership of Fr. Salvador Font, Augustinian cura of Tondo, to examine the novel.
• Rizal was thrilled by the sights and memories of the Eternal City.
• The report of the faculty members of University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was "heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religious order and anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order".
• Governor General Emilio Terrero requested Rizal to come to Malacańang Palace.
• -married to Don Manuel de los Santos, a prominent businessman in Manila -died in Manila on July 23, 1913 at the age of 63 -Rizal affectionately called her “a mother to the poor” -Jose Rizal’s godmother was Doña Saturnina de los Santos.
• Dr. Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonzo Y Realonda completed his medical course in Spain and was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad Central de Madrid.
• Dr. Jose Rizal completed his medical course in Spain and was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad Central de Madrid.
• Jose was chosen by his mother who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph).
• Jose Rizal was chosen by his mother who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph).
• Protacio is a surname adopted in 1731 by Domingo Lamco, the paternal great-great-grandfather of Jose Rizal, which the Spanish term mercado means ‘market’ in English.
• The surname Protacio was adopted in 1731 by Domingo Lamco (the paternal great-great-grandfather of Jose Rizal) which the Spanish term mercado means ‘market’ in English.
• Rizal is from the word ‘Ricial’ in Spanish, which means a field where wheat, cut while still green, sprouts again.
• The surname Rizal comes from the word ‘Ricial’ in Spanish which means a field where wheat, cut while still green, sprouts again.
• Alonzo is the old surname of Jose Rizal's mother.
• MOTHER’S SIDETHE RIZAL HOME-was one of the distinguished stone houses in Calamba during the Spanish times-it was a two-storey building, rectangular in shape, built of adobe stones and hard-woods and roofed with red tiles-by day, it hummed with the noises of children at play and the songs of the birds in the garden; by night, it echoed with the dulcet notes of family prayersThe Rizal family belonged to the principalia, a town aristocracy in Spanish PhilippinesThe Rizal family had a simple, contented and happy life
• The surname Alonzo is the old surname of Jose Rizal’s mother.
• Y and Realonda are names used by Doña Teodora, the godmother of Jose Rizal.
• The University of Santo Tomas did not provide "fuller learning" to its students, prompting some of them like Rizal to go abroad.
• The surname Realonda was used by Doña Teodora from the surname of her godmother based on the culture by that time.
• Rizal would have probably ended by the beginning of the fifth year course, which he started in Madrid, had he not been persecuted.