Jose Rizal

• Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861 in Santa Cruz, Manila.
• Rizal showed that you must know the issues at hand, to go out of your comfort zone.
• The pen is stronger than the swords, as you can't kill ideas.
• Jose Rizal had a big head, so his mother Theodora Lisod ang pag-anak ni Theodora.
• Jose Rizal came from a family that owned land, which came from a Dominican Friar.
• Jose Rizal wrote "Memorias de un Estudyante de Manila" Memoirs of his childhood.
• Paciano was crucial in Jose Rizal's childhood.
• Everything Jose Rizal wanted was given to him.
• Jose Rizal matured early because Paciano brought him to his work.
• Jose Rizal was exposed to books from a young age, as her mother was a mathematician and went to college.
• Jose Rizal was reading and writing before he was 2 years old.
• Jose Rizal wrote "Sa Aking Mga Kabata" when he was 8 years old, about loving their language.
• Jose Rizal finished elementary school quickly and went to Ateneo Municipal sa Manila.
• In 1872, Jose Rizal's mother was accused of adding poison to the food, causing Jose Rizal to be saddened and inspired to write Sisa.
• On February 15, 1872, Jose Rizal's friend Gomburza was charged with treason.
• Leonor Valenzuela was Rizal's 2nd Leonor that he also loved.
• Rizal wrote a letter to Leonor on April 16, 1884.
• Rizal wrote Noli Me Tangere in Madrid, Germany.
• Leonor Rivera's mother stopped their letters because of what Rizal was writing in Spain, and Leonor instead married an Englishman railroad worker.
• Rizal wrote the skeleton/outline for Noli Me Tangere in December 11, 1884.
• Rizal met Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech national, in Spain and considered him his soulmate.
• Paciano Rizal saw the incident, told Jose Rizal, and was saddened by it.
• In 1891, Rizal was in Hong Kong as a doctor, where he met Josephine Bracken, the adopted daughter of George Taufer, and they lived as husband and wife in Dapitan.
• Paciano advised their workers to use the surname Rizal if they wanted to save the legacy.
• O Sei San was a woman Rizal met in Japan, to whom he wrote back.
• Gertrude Beckett was a woman Rizal met in London, to whom he didn't send a letter.
• Rizal wrote a letter to Paciano about getting the amount for publishing Noli Me Tangere wrong and needed more money from 200 to 500, but was given 2,000 books.
• In March 31, 1890, Rizal wrote a letter to Blumentritt, stating that he dreamt about him and planned to join him in his return to the Philippines.
• Rizal was the first emo, the first evidence was his hair.
• Rizal was asked to write a petition to stop raising rant and won, after which he was asked to leave the Philippines for his safety.
• Ferdinand Blumentritt was the greatest Filipinologist in Spain at the time, and Rizal met him.
• Rizal's house was burnt and their stuff was thrown due to the friars' anger.
• Rizal wanted to go to the Philippines to check the effect of his book, but the book is banned in the Philippines.
• Rizal wanted to go back to the Philippines in 1887.
• Rizal never considered marrying someone else until Nelly Boustead, in France, with the condition that he become a Protestant, which he refused.
• Leonor Rivera was Rizal's 2nd cousin, and they only saw each other for 4 years.
• Theodora Alonso wrote a letter to Rizal about not forgetting to be a Christian and other things, to which Rizal responded that he writes because it's powerful.
• Rizal was excommunicated for discussing academic freedom.
• Suzanne Jacopy was a woman Rizal met in Brussels, Belgium, to whom he didn't see again.
• Paciano Rizal and Jose Rizal were the only spiritual guides to the town.