Rizal’s Background

Monday, October 25, 2021

Rizal’s Background

by: Kirsten Mendoza  

Full Name : José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

Lived : Jun 19, 1861 - Dec 30, 1896 (age 35)

Birthplace :  town of Calamba in Laguna province. 

Jose Rizal is considered as the National Hero of the Philippines, a propagandist writer that advocates political reforms and colony under spain. Rizal is the son of Francisco Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos together with his nine sisters and one brother. Like hi Family Rizal is of mixed Mestizo Origin. Rizal studied under Justiniano Aquino Cruz in Binan, Laguna before being sent to Manila. A graduate of Sobresaliente or an outstanding student in Ateneo Municipal De Manila. Continuing his studies at the same school in order to obtain a surveyor and assessor’s degree. At the same time he took a preparatory course in law at the University of sto. Tomas. Showing a precious intellect at a very young age,  later on he immersed himself in poetry writing contests, leaving an impression to his professors with his facility with castilian and other foreign languages. And in the year 1891 he had finished his novel entitled El Filibusterismo.