Lesson 1: Education of Jose Rizal - Decided to shift to a medical course.

- Remained loyal to Ateneo, participated in

Rizal’s First Teacher extracurricular activities and completed a course
Dona Teodora – Taught him how to read and pray and surveying; he eventually earned a land
had encouraged him to write poetry surveyor’s and assessor’s degree from the
Ateneo de Municipal.
Maestro Celestino, Maestro Lucas, Leon Monroy – - As a Thomasian, he won more literary laurels,
Private tutors taught the young Rizal Spanish and Latin, - The school term 1878-1879 that Rizal pursued
before he was sent to a private school in Binan his studies in medicine.
Early Education
Reason why Rizal wanted to study Medicine
1869 – Binan, Laguna - Wanted to be a physician so that he could cure
his mother’s failing eyesight.
- Rizal left for Binan Laguna - Fr. Pablo Ramon recommended medicine,
- Taught by Maestro Justiniano
- He beat all the Binan boys Rizal's Pre-Med course

1872 – Ateneo de Municipal - Curso de Ampliacion or Advanced course in

- Established by the Jesuits Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History.
- Belonged the class composed of Spaniards, - Rizal was granted the privilege of taking
mestizos and Filipinos simultaneously the preparatory course and the
- Taught by Fr. Jose Bech first year of medicine. Received his four-year
- To improve his Spanish, Rizal took private practical training in medicine at the Hospital de
lessons in Santa Isabel College San Juan de Dios in Intramuros.
- Graduated on March 23, 1877. 6 years old - His last year at the university, Rizal obtained the
- Degree of bachelor of arts, with highest honors Global Grade of Notable in all his subjects.
- The second-best student in a decimated class of
Extracurricular Involvement seven who passed the medicine course.
- Emperor inside the classroom
- Campus leader
- Active member and became a secretary at the
Marian Congregation Religious Society
- Member of the Academy of Spanish Literature
and the Academy of Natural Sciences
- Poet
- Studied painting under the famous Spanish
Painter, Agustin Saez
- Improved his sculpture talents under supervision
of Romualdo de Jesus Year 1882 – 1885
- Engaged in gymnastics and fencing and
continued the physical training under his sports- Academic Journey To Spain
minded Tio Manuel
- His departure was kept a secret to many.
- To avoid detection, he used the name Jose
Mercado.
- May 3, 1882: he boarded on Salvadora bound
for Singapore.
- November 3, 1882: he enrolled in Universidad
Central de Madrid - Philosophy and Letters and
Year 1877 – 1882 Medicine.
- June 21, 1884: he conferred the degree of
Medical Studies in University of Santo Tomas
Licentiate in Medicine.
- During his first term in 1877-1878 in UST, he - The Following academic year: he studied and
studied Cosmology, Metaphysics, Theodicy and passed all subjects leading to the degree of
History of Philosophy. doctor of medicine.
- Finished a year in Philosophy and Letters.
 - Unfortunately, he was not awarded his doctor’s - May 3, 1882: Rizal left for Spain to complete his
diploma. studies and widen his political knowledge
- Finished his studies in Philosophy and Letters through exposure to European governments
with higher grades - Rizal’s departure was kept secret to many
- June 19, 1885: Awarded the Degree of
Licentiate in Philosophy and Letters by the In Europe
Universidad Central de Madrid with the rating of - On his way to Madrid, Rizal had many
excellent. stopovers.
- September 16, 1882: Rizal met and befriended
Ophthalmology studies and travels in Europe Consuelo Ortiga Y Rey
- November 3, 1882: Rizal enrolled in Medicine,
- Jose Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to Philosophy, and Letters at the Universidad
specialize in ophthalmology. Central de Madrid.
- In 1885, after studying at the Universidad - 1885: Rizal Finished his two courses in Madrid
Central de Madrid, Rizal, who was then 24 years and went to Paris, France.
old, went to Paris to acquire more knowledge in - November 1885-February 1886: He worked as
ophthalmology. an assistant to the celebrated ophthalmologist,
- February 3, 1886: he left Paris and went to Dr. Louis de Weckert.
Heidelberg, Germany. - February 3, 1886: Rizal left Paris and went to
- He worked at the University Eye Hospital under Heidelberg Germany
the direction of Dr. Otto Becker - Rizal traveled next to Leipzig and attended some
- April 22, 1886: Rizal wrote a poem entitled A lectures at its university.
las Flores de Heidelberg. - November 1886: He went to Berlin to further
- August 14, 1886: Rizal arrived in Leipzig and enhanced his skills and knowledge in
attended some lectures at the University of ophthalmology.
Leipzig on history and psychology. - February 21,1887: Rizal finished his first novel,
the Noli Me Tangere
Reasons Why Rizal chose to reside in Germany
longer Grand Europe Tour
- To gain further his studies in science and - Maximo Viola- Who loaned Rizal a some of
languages money to cover for the printing of the Noli Me
- To observe the economic and political Tangere.
conditions of the German nation - Paciano's remittance- Funded Rizal's expenses in
- To associate with the famous scientists and Europe
scholars - Post dam- a city near Berlin
- Lastly, to publish his novel "Noli Me Tangere" - May 11, 1887: They left Berlin to visit Dresden.
By the end of his education - May 16, 1887: They Left Leitmeritz to visit
- Jose Rizal earned a Licentiate in Medicine at the Prague
Universidad Central de Madrid, where he also - May 24, 1887: Danubian Voyage to Lintz
took courses in philosophy and literature. - June 19, 1887: Rizal's solo travel
- He began writing "Noli Me Tangere"
- 1887: He attended classes in the University of First Homecoming
Paris where he completed his eye specialization
course at the University of Heidelberg. - Despite being warned by friends and love ones,
- It was also in that year that Rizal’s first novel Rizal was adamant in his decision to return to
was published in Berlin. his native land.
- July 3, 1887: Rizal boarded the streamer
Lesson 2: First Trip to Europe “Djemnah” from the French port in Marseilles
- After reaching Saigon Rizal then boarded
Life in Europe another steamer “Haiphong”
- August 8: Rizal returned to Calamba
- 1882: Rizal stopped attending classes at UST - Because of his allegation that his “Noli Me
because he was sick and tired of the Tangere” contained subversive ideas, Rizal was
discriminatory and oppressive Dominican summoned by the Governor-General Emilio
professors Terrero
 - After seeing no problem in the book, Terrero - Visited the states of Utah, Colorado, Nebraska,
nonetheless assigned to Rizal a bodyguard, Don and Illinois
Jose Traviel de Andrade, to protect the - May 13 - New York
balikbayan from his adversaries - Bedloe Island - Statue of Liberty - symbolizing
- December 1887: Calamba folks asked Rizal’s freedom & democracy
assistance in regards about the sudden increase - Rizal observed that there was racial inequality -
in the land rent freedom was only for the whites
- Enraged by Rizal’s reports, the friars pressured
the governor-general to advise the author of Noli
Me Tangere to leave the country
- Rizal’s second travel abroad may been upsetting,
but it nonetheless provided him with another In Great Britain, Paris, and Spain
opportunity to have a new set of adventurous - May 16, 1888 - onboard the ship “City of
journeys. Rome”, sailed for Liverpool
- May 24 - He arrived at Liverpool
- London - stayed briefly at Dr. Antonio Ma.
Regidor’s house
- Boarded at Beckett residence - lovingly served
by Gertrude Beckett (daughter of his landlord)
Lesson 3: Second Leg of Jose Rizal’s Trip to Europe - June 1888 - made friends with Dr. Reinhold
(Second Travel Abroad) Rost and his family – expert in Malayan
language, Rost had a Filipiniana library - He
In Hong Kong and Japan described Rizal as “a pearl of a man” (“una
- February 3, 1888 - Rizal sailed to Hong Kong perla de hombre”)
onboard “Zafiro” - London - Rizal manually copied and annotated
- Short stop - Amoy (Xiamen, China) Morag’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - rare
- He stayed at Victoria Hotel in Hong Kong and book available in the British Museum
visited nearby city Macau (2 days) with a friend, - Rizal became the honorary president of the
Jose Maria Basa. patriotic society Asociacion La Solidaridad and
- Experience: noisy firecracker-laden Chinese wrote articles for it
New Year and marathon Lauriat party - 10 months stay in London - visited Paris,
- February 28 - Yokohama, Japan then Tokyo the Madrid, Barcelona
next day - Spain - he met Marcelo H. del Pilar (renowned
- He lived in the Spanish legation in Tokyo, member of the Propaganda Movement along
invited by its secretary, Juan Perez Caballero. with Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce, and
- March 1888 - Tokyo band playing European Rizal)
music - some members were Filipino
(japayuki/japayuko) Propaganda – a patriotic socio-political organization
- Seiko Usui “O-sei-san” - 23 yrs old - Rizal’s founded in 1872. Its
tour guide and sweetheart members were the Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and
Filipino students
Sail to the West studying in Europe.
- April 13, 1888 - boarded the “Belgic” - Rizal
befriended Tetcho Suehiro, a Japanese novelist Propaganda – cultural and literary organization, had a
and human rights fighter who was also forced by principal publication - the La Solidaridad
his government to leave his country.
- April 28 - arrived in San Francisco - quarantined Propagandists advocated:
for a week because of the cholera outbreak in the a. recognition of the Philippines as a province of
Far East Spain and its representation in the Spanish
- In reality, politicians were just questioning the parliament
arrival of Chinese coolies who would displace b. secularization of the Philippine parishes and
white laborers in railroad construction. clergy
- May 6 - went to Oakland onboard a train c. equality between the Spanish and Filipino
- Evening meal in Sacramento, Woke up in Reno, d. establishment of government-funded schools not
Nevada run by friars
e. abolition of the “polo” and “vandala”
 f. recognition of human rights and freedom, - He heard the news of Leonor Rivera’s marriage
especially the freedoms of speech and to the Englishman Henry Kipping
association - There also emerged the Del Pilar-Rizal rivalry
In France for leadership in the “Asociacion Hispano
- March 1889 - Rizal went to Paris Filipino”. It produced unpleasant split among
- He lived in the house of a friend, Valentin the Filipinos in Madrid - Rizalistas vs. Pilaristas
Ventura - Rizal thus decided to leave Madrid that results in
- Transferred to a little room with two Filipino more serious factions among Filipinos in Madrid
roommates - one of whom was Jose Albert,
student from Manila In Biarritz, Paris, and Brussels
- Frequented Bibliotheque Nationale, working on - February 1891 - Rizal arrived in Biarritz and
his annotation of Sucesos was welcomed as a family guest of the Bousted
- Spent his spare hours in the house of friends like family, especially by Nellie Bousted whom he
Juan Luna and his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera had a serious, but failed, romantic relationship.
- He witnessed Universal Exposition of Paris, - He continued to work on his El Fili and
having its greatest attraction the Eiffel Tower completed its manuscript on March 29, the eve
of his departure for Paris.
Rizal formed Kidlat Club and Redencion de los - In Paris - Valentin Venture hosted Rizal’s short
Malayos. He organized Indios Bravos association. He stay there
finished and published his annotation of the Sucesos. - In Brussels - the Jacobies, especially Petite
Suzanne welcomed Rizal’s arrival in April 1891
In Belgium - Rizal revised and prepared for printing his
- January 28, 1890 - Rizal left Paris for Brussels second novel until the end of May
with Jose Albert - June 1891 - he was already looking for a
- They stayed in a boarding house administered by printing firm to print the El Fili
the Jacoby sisters (Suzanne and Marie)
- Rizal had a transitory affair with Suzanne, the In Ghent
niece of his landladies - July 1891 - went to Ghent because the cost of
- He busied himself writing the El Fili and printing there was cheaper
contributing for La Solidaridad using the pen - He lived in a low-cost boarding house where he
names Dimas Along and Laong Laan had a roommate Jose Alejandro, engineering
- He decided to go home when he heard the news student in the University of Ghent
that the Calamba agrarian trouble was getting - The publisher F. Meyer-Van Loo Press agreed to
worse print the El Fili on an installment basis
- Paciano lettered Rizal saying that they lost the - August 6 - printing was suspended
court against the Dominicans in the Philippines, - September 18, 1891 - El Filibusterismo came off
and intended to bring the case to Madrid the press through Valentin Ventura’s “salvific”
- Rizal went to Madrid to look for a lawyer who act
would defend there the Calamba tenants - Two weeks after, Rizal visited Paris for the last
time to bid goodbye to his friends and
In Madrid compatriots
- August 1890 - traveled to Madrid
- Along with his lawyer, Marcelo H. del Pilar, he In Hong Kong and Sandakan
tried to seek justice for his family but could not - October 1891 - onboard the ship “Melbourne”
find any influential Spaniard who could help on which he began writing his third (but
them. unfinished) novel
- He also met the Filipino student Edilberto - November 20 - arrived in Hong Kong and
Evangelista. resided at No.5 D Aguilar Street, No.2
- Rizal encountered many adversities and Rednaxela Terrace
tribulations in Madrid. - Don Francisco, Paciano, and Silvestre Ubaldo
- He challenged his friend Antonio Luna to a duel also arrived in Hong Kong and shortly after,
because of Nellie Boustead Dona Teodora, Lucia, Josefa, and Trinidad also
- He also dared to duel Wenceslao Retana of the arrived. They had a sort of family reunion in the
anti-Filipino newspaper La Epoca Yuletide season of 1891.
- Luna became Rizal’s good friend again. Retana
became Rizal’s first non-Filipino biographer.
 - Rizal opened a medical clinic. A Portuguese - Rizal made Captain Carnicero a bust and
friend, Dr. Lorenzo P. Marques, helped him to composed a poem in his honor A Don Ricardo
get many patrons. Carnicero on his birthday on August 26, 1892.
- Rizal’s successful operation on his mother’s left - September 1892 – Rizal and Carnicero won
eye allowed her to read again. 20,000 pesos in a lottery.
- Lottery Ticket Number: 9736
Second Homecoming - He used his money to build an octagonal house
- June 21, 1892 - Rizal left Hong Kong along with made up of bamboo and nipa in Talisay.
his sister Lucia - Rizal build a school and accepted students with
- Without Rizal’s knowledge, the Spanish consul tuition.
in Hong Kong sent a cablegram to Despujol - The other part was used for his eye clinic.
stating that “the rat is in the trap” - He also builds a house for the ladies in his
- June 26, 1892 - Rizal and his sister arrived in family who were free to visit him in Dapitan.
Manila at 7 p.m. - Carnicero also wrote a letter to Governor
- June 27 – took a train and visited his friends in General to allow his mother and sisters to in him
Central Luzon in Dapitan
- He had a stopover at the Bautista mansion in
Malolos, Bulacan. Spent the night in the house Additional:
of Evaristo Puno in Tarlac. - May 4, 1893 – Carnicero was replaced by
- He also went to San Fernando and Bacolor, Captain Juan Sitges
Pampanga - Captain Sitges did not want to living with a
- June 28 - he returned to Manila at 5 p.m. deportee
- June 29, 30, and July 3 - he had interviews with - He assigned Rizal ton lived in a house near the
Despujol headquarters.
- Evening of July 3 - Rizal spearheaded the - He also ordered Rizal to appear before three (3)
meeting in the house of Doroteo Ongjunco on times a week.
Ylaya Street, Tondo, Manila
- It was attended by at least 20 Filipinos including Daily Life as an Exile
Andres Bonifacio and Apolinario Mabini
- Rizal explained the aims of La Liga Filipina. - Rizal practiced medicine, taught some pupils,
Officers were then elected and officially and engaged in forming and holiculture.
established the league. - Rizal grew up any fruit trees (like coconut,
- Three days after, Rizal was arrested during his mango, lanzones, nakopa, santol, mangosteen,
interview with the governor-general jackfruit, guyabanos, baluno, and nanka).
- Despujol showed him anti-friar leaflets Pobres - He also domesticated some animals (like rabbits,
Frailes (Poor Friars) allegedly discovered in his dogs, cats, and chickens).
sister Lucia’s pillow cases - The school he founded in 1893 started with only
- Imprisoned in Fort Santiago for almost ten days three pupils and had more about 20 students at
- The ship captain Delgras handed him over to the the time his exhile ended.
local Spanish - Five (5) in the morning Rizal would rise to see
- commandant - Ricardo Carnicero - signaled the his plants, feed his animals and prepare
start of Rizal’s life as a deportee in Dapitan. breakfast.
- After his breakfast, he would treat his patients
Lesson 4: Exile, Trial, and Death who had come to his house.
- Rizal proceed to Dapitan town paddling with his
Bitter-Sweet Life in Dapitan boat called baroto to attend his other patients
- July 17, 1892 - Rizal, together with his guard there.
Captain Ricardo Carnicero, arrived in Dapitan. - Rizal begin to teach his students at 2p.m. and
- The deportee could have stayed in the Dapitan would end at 4 or 5 in the afternoon.
parish convent had he retracted his anti-Catholic - Rizal would spend his night reading and writing.
pronouncements and made general confession of
his past life. Rizal and the Jesuits
- Jose Rizal opted to live at the commandant’s - The Jesuits sent his old professor at the Ateneo,
residence called “Casa Real” Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez, to entice him
back to the church.
 - Fr. Francisco didn’t convinced Rizal to change - In March 1895, a man introduced himself to
his mind. Rizal as Pablo Mercado.
- Priest Pablo - The superior of Jesuits Society in - Florencio Nanaman- he is a paid secret agent
the Philippines. by the recollect friars.
- He attempts by corresponds to win over the - Doctor Pio Valenzuela- he was sent by
Catholicism the exiled Physician. Bonifacio to Rizal in Dapitan; (Valenzuela City
- September 1892 to April 1893 - They was named after him)
exchanged letters four (4) times
- Rizal refused to espouse the conventional type Visited by Loved Ones
of Catholicism. - Rizal was in the Dapitan when he learned that
his true love Leonor Rivera had died.
Achievements in Dapitan - In August 1893, Dona Teodora, along with
- Rizal provided significant services in Dapitan, daughter Trinidad, joined Rizal in Dapitan and
like improving town’s drainage and constructing resided with him in his casa cuadrada (square
better water system using empty bottles and house).
bamboo joints. - In 1895, Dona Teodora left Dapitan for Manila
- Rizal taught the town folks about health and to be with Don Francisco who was getting
sanitation to avoid the spread of diseases. weaker.
- Rizal made a Huge Relief Map of Mindanao in - Josephine Bracken- was an Irish blood and the
Dapitan plaza with his priest friend Sanchez. step daughter of Jose’s patient from Hong Kong.
- He bettered the forest there by providing evident - Before the year ended in 1895, the couple had a
trails, stairs, and some benches. child who was born prematurely.
- Rizal also invented a wooden machine for the - The son who was named after Rizal’s father
mass production of bricks. (Francisco) died a few hours after birth.
- He built a water dam for the community using
the bricks with the help of his students. Goodbye Dapitan
- Rizal equally treated all patients regardless of - In 1895, Blumentrit informed Rizal that the
their economic and social status. revolution-ridden Cuba, another nation
- Rizal’s specialization was ophthalmology, but colonized by Spain, was raged by a yellow-fever
he also offered treatments to almost all kinds of epidemic.
diseases, like fever, sprain, broken bones, - In December 1895, Rizal wrote to the then
typhoid, tuberculosis, and even leprosy. Governor-General Ramon Blanco, volunteering
- He helped in the livelihood of the abaca farmers to provide medical services in Cuba.
in Dapitan by trading their crops in Manila. - On July 30, 1896, Rizal received a letter from
- He gave lessons in abaca-weaving to produce the governor-general sanctioning his petition to
hamrocks. serve as volunteer physician in Cuba.
- In the late afternoon of July 31, Rizal got on the
As a Scientist and Philologist “Espana”.
- Doctor Adolph B. Mayer- he is a scientist in - “Adios, Dr. Rizal!”
Europe and a dear friend of Rizal in Dresden. - “Adios, Dapitan!”
- He sent various biological specimens. In return - The steamer departed for Manila at midnight of
the European scholars sent him a books and July 31, 1896.
some other academic reading materials. - Rizal wrote in his diary onboard the ship “I have
- From the collections he sent to European been in that district four years, thirteen days, and
scholars, at least three species were named after a few hours”
him:
Dapitan Frog (Rhacophorus Rizali) Lesson 5: The Love Life of Rizal
A type of beetle (Apogania Rizali)
Flying Dragon (Draco Rizali) Julia Celeste Smith (NOT INCLUDED)
- Doctor Reinhold Rost- his close philologist - “First Crush”
friend in London - Rizal was only 15 when he saw Julia by
accidentally in river named Dampalit River, Los
The Spies and Secret Emissary Banos, Laguna
- Matias Arrieta- he is a physician that revealed
his covert mission and asked for forgiveness Segunda Katigbak
after he was by cured by Rizal. - “First Love and First heartbreak”
 - Pepe was 16 and Segunda was 14 - Daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga, former alcalde of
Manila
Leonor Valenzuela - Now residing in Madrid, Spain
- “Secret Love” - Rizal dedicated to he A la Senorita C.O. y R.,
- Tall girl from Pagsanjan, Nueva Ecija, fondly which became one of his best poems.
called as “Orang” - Maximo and Antonio Paterno, Rizal’s good
- She was Rizal’s neighbor when he boarded in friends, are frequent visitors too.
Intramuros the house of Dona Concha Leyva. - They first met when Consuelo attended a party
- Rizal Sent he love notes written in invisible ink of Filipino compatriots in Madrid
made of common table salt and water, which - Rizal received a poem and Consuelo was
could be read by heating the note over a candle impressed
of lamp. - They met again in the birthday party of
- He visited her on the eve of his departure to Consuelo’s father
Spain and bade her a last goodbye. - Since then, Consuelo often asked Rizal for
romantic verses.
Leonor Rivera Rizal suddenly backed out before the relationship turned
- “True Love” serious, because
- Native of Camiling, Tarlac 1. He wanted to remain loyal to Leonor Rivera and
- Nickname “Taimis” 2. He did not want to destroy his friendship with
- Rivera’s Family resided in Dagupan from 1890 Eduardo de lete who was madly in love with
to 1891, when the railroad line between Manila Consuelo.
and Dagupan was being constructed
- 2nd Cousin of Rizal
- Their fathers were first cousins
O-Sei-San
How they met? - “The Tour Guide”
- Both studying in Manila - Rizal could have married her and they would
- Rizal was staying in the boarding house owned have lived happily ever after in Japan because
by Leonor’s father Rizal had a lucrative job at that time in the
- Sweetheart for 11 years Spanish Legation (Spanish embassy in Japan)
- Kept him from falling in love with other women - But Rizal was a man with a patriotic mission
in Europe - Seiko Usui, also known as O-Sei-San, a
- Unfortunately, Leonor’s mother didn’t like Japanese samurai’s daughter.
Rizal, who was then a known filibustero - Rizal was her first love.
- Leonor had been faithful even though Rizal was - In 1897, a year after Rizal’s death, Seiko
studying in Europe married Alfred Charlton, British chemistry
- Her mother Sylvestra Bauson (tia Beyang) hid teacher of the Peer’s School in Tokyo.
from Leonor all letters sent to her by Rizal.
- Leonor believing that Rizal had already Gertrude Beckett
- forgotten her, consented to marry the English - “A Contemporary Patime”
Engineer Henry Kipping - Age of 19
- Headed the Manila-Dagupan Railway Project. - Her nickname is “Gettie”
- In 1890, Leonor got married to Kipping - Daughter of Charles Beckett who was Rizal
Conditions: Landlord when he stayed in London
1. Her mom will stand beside her during the - “Pettie” (This was his nickname for Rizal)
wedding - She fell in love with Rizal and gave him all of
2. She will never sing again her attention during the family picnics and
3. She will never play piano again gatherings.
4. She will wear black all the days of her life.
- She was Maria Clara in Noli me Tangere Nelly Bousted
- She died while giving birth to her 2nd son in - “The rich heiress”
1893, when Rizal was in Dapitan. - Age of 19
- Daughter of British businessman Eduardo
Consuelo Ortiga Boustead
- “Crush ng Bayan” - She is half-Filipina
- Jose Rizal’s fourth girlfriend
 How they met: Rizal had been friends with her 3. Facing the sky, the national hero fell on the
family, and he used to fence with nelly and her sister ground dead at this time in the morning of
Adelina at Juan Luna’s studio. In February 1891 December 30, 1896 – 7:03 am
How it ended: Nelly wanted Rizal to convert to 4. The publisher that agreed to print the El Fili
Protestantism, and her mother didn’t approve of a man on the installment – F. Meyer-Van Leo
who didn’t have the capacity to give her daughter a good 5. The man who described our national hero as
life. “a pearl of a man” (una perla de hombre) –
Dr. Reinhold Rost
Suzanne Jacoby 6. He is the Katipunan leader who sent an
- “The Naughty Girl of Brussels” emissary to Rizal in Dapitan – Andres
- Age 18 Bonifacio
- When Rizal was in Brussels, he was just 29 but 7. He is Rizal’s favorite teacher in Ateneo and
Suzanne Jacoby was 45 the priest assigned by the Jesuit Order to
- She is a Belgian woman who was her niece of Dapitan with whom he had cordial religious
the landladies of the boarding house where Rizal discussions. – Francisco de Paula Sanchez
stayed in Brussels in February 1890. 8. She is the orphan with Irish blood and the
How they met: Someone keep Rizal away from stepdaughter of Jose’s patient from
boarding house. His six- month stay in the city saw him Hongkong – Josephine Bracken
spending a lot of time with Suzanne and they attended
the city’s summertime festival together. Matching Type
How it ended: He ended up returning to Brussels in
April 1891, but only so he could keep on El 1. She was the first love and first heartbreak of
Filibusterismo Rizal – Segunda Katigbak
2. She is the secret love of Rizal. She lived in
Josephine Bracken Pagsanjan, Nueva Ecija – Leonor Rivera
- “First wife of Rizal” 3. She was the wife of Rizal and he called her
- Age 18 dulce extrangejera – Josephine Bracken
- She is born in Hong kong to Irish parents 4. Her nickname in Taimis. A true love of Rizal
- Josephine was the wife of Rizal he called her but she is the 2nd cousin. – Leonor Valenzuela
“dulce extranjera” 5. She fell in love with Rizal and gave him all of
- They ‘are married in Catholic rites by Fr. Victor her attention during the family picnics and
Balaguer two hours before Rizal's execution at gatherings. She lived in London and daughter of
Bagumbayan. Mr. Charles – Gertrude Beckett
- The adopted daughter of George Taufer 6. She seeks Rizal for eye treatment – Josephine
Bracken
How they met: In the last days of February 1895, while 7. The Naughty Girl of Brussels. She is a Belgian
still in Dapitan, Rizal met an 18-year-old petite Irish girl, woman who was he niece of the land ladies of
with bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy disposition. the boarding house where Rizal stayed in
She was Josephine Bracken, who came to Dapitan to Brussels – Suzanne Jacoby
seek Rizal for eye treatment. Rizal was physically 8. Daughter of a British businessman. She is half
attracted to her. Filipina and she called her “The Rich heiress” –
How it ended: After Rizal's death, Josephine returned to Nelly Bousted
Hong Kong and lived with her father. In 1900, she 9. She is a Japanese Samurai. Samurai’s daughter –
married Vicente Abad and they had a daughter named O-Sei San
Dolores. Josephine died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. 10. She is the “Crush ng Bayan”. She is the daughter
Others say she actually returned to the Philippines and of Don Pablo. – Consuelo Ortiga
lived in Cebu with her husband and taught English at
various institutions.

Multiple Choice
Identification
1. This is where Rizal revised and prepared for 1. The Poem, which was previously believed to be
printing his second Novel – Brussels Rizal’s first written poem at the age of eight. –
2. The priest who advised Rizal to forget about To my fellow children
his resentment and marry Josephine –
Federico Faura
2. The maestro in a private school in Binan where
Rizal was brought by Paciano – Maestro
Justiniano Aquino Cruz