Jose Rizal and the Philippine Nationalism

• the Philippine National Heroes Committee officially recommended several people for the designation, but this was not acted upon.

  1995
• No one had ever been officially recognized as a Philippine national hero.

  2007
• Besides Rizal, the only other Filipinos currently given implied recognition as national hero such as revolutionary

  Andres Bonifacio
• But, among his best works, two novels stood out from the rest

  Noli Me Tangere & El Filibusterismo
• Rizal was granted leave by then Governor-General Blanco, after volunteering to travel to Cuba to serve as doctor to yellow fever victims


  1896
• Days before his execution, Rizal bid farewell to his motherland and countrymen through one of his final letters, entitled

  Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell)
• Dr. José Rizal was executed on the morning of


  December 30, 1896
• After his death, the Philippine Revolution continued until 1898.
• And with the assistance of the United States, the Philippines declared its independence from Spain on June 12, 1898.
• This was the time that the Philippine flag was waved at General Emilio Aguinaldo’s residence in Kawit, Cavite

  June 12. 1898
• a very rare kind of beetle with five horns

  apogania rizali
• a peculiar frog species

  rhacophorus rizali
• a small lizard, known as a flying dragon

  draco rizali