FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE of Rizal - powerpoint presentation

Early life of Rizal - Class Reporting

1. FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE

2. The complete name of our hero is Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda .He was the seventh child of Francisco Rizal Mercado and his wife, Teodora Alonso Realonda .Rizal was born of June 19,1861 ,in Calamba ,Laguna.

3. His grandfather, Domingo Lam- co ,was an immigrant Chinese merchant who immigrated to the Philippines in the 17 th century.

4. His mother’s ancestry runs in the mixed of blood of Chinese,Japanese,and tagalog that originated from Dona Teodora’s grandmother, Regina Ochoa and Rizal’s grandfather Lorenzo Alberto Alonso ,who was also a half-Spaniard engineer.

5. In 1849, Governor-General Narciso Claveria ordered all Filipinos to use Spanish family names to facilitate the taxcensus registry.Therefore,Lam-co,changed their family name to Spanish “ Mercado”,which means “ market”,to signify their merchant roots.

6. At the age of three ,he taught the alphabet by his mother. At age five ,he was able to read and write.In 1870,just when Rizal was about to go to Manila to continue his education at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila,he witnessed the unfair ordeal of his mother because of false a ccusation of attempting to poison her sister-in-law .

7. Dona Teodora was arrested by Spaniards and made walk for 50 kilometers around laguna .After more than a day of walking under the sun,and was imprisoned without a trial in Santa cruz for 2 yrs.Another event that move Rizal’s sentiments was the devious execution of Gomburza .They were accused of leading the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 .And executed by means of garrote on Feb.17,1872,at Bagumbayan.

8. Fr.Mariano Gomez,Fr.Jacinto Zamora,and Fr.Jose Burgos, they are creole priests within Catholic Church,They were asking for equal rights for Filipino and Spanish priest.Because of this they were publicly executed.

9. What is Rizal’s ancestral history? The child of a Chinese man and a native woman,or a mestiza,was labeled as a Chinese mestizo.If a mestiza married an indio,the offspring would be classified as an indio.By marrying a Chinese or mestizo,the mother and her children would be identified as mestizos.Thus,through marriage,natve women or mestizas could possibly change their status.

10. In the mid-1830’s,when Manila was opened to foregn trade with few restrictions,the demand for Philippine sugar and abaca grew.The growth of commercial agriculture in the Philippines was evident in the case of Domingo Lam- co,who came to Binan in the md-18 th century.