Saturday, October 15, 2011

Jose Rizal – Philippine National Hero

 Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh adolescent in a ancestors of 11 accouchement (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were able and belonged to acclaimed families.


His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an active agriculturalist whom Rizal alleged "a archetypal of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a awful able and able woman whom Rizal alleged "loving and advisable mother," was built-in in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the age of 3, he abstruse the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while acquirements to apprehend and write, he already showed inclinations to be an artist. He afraid his ancestors and ancestors by his pencil assets and sketches and by his moldings of clay. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Aking Mga Kabata," the affair of which revolves on the adulation of one’s language.

In 1877, at the age of 16, he acquired his Bachelor of Arts amount with an boilerplate of "excellent" from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. In the aforementioned year, he enrolled in Philosophy and Belletrist at the University of Santo Tomas, while at the aforementioned time took courses arch to the amount of artist and able adjudicator at the Ateneo. He accomplished the closing advance on March 21, 1877 and anesthetized the Surveyor’s assay on May 21, 1878; but because of his age, 17, he was not accepted authorization to convenance the profession until December 30, 1881. In 1878, he enrolled in anesthetic at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop in his studies if he acquainted that the Filipino acceptance were getting discriminated aloft by their Dominican tutors. On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain area he connected his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was conferred the amount of Licentiate in Anesthetic and on June 19,1885, at the age of 24, he accomplished his advance in Philosophy and Belletrist with a brand of "excellent."

Having catholic abundantly in Europe, America and Asia, he baffled 22 languages. These cover Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayan, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, and added built-in dialects. A able genius, he was an architect, artists, businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, accurate farmer, historian, inventor, journalist, linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, naturalist, novelist, acoustic surgeon, poet, propagandist, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist, and theologian.

He was an able swordsman and a acceptable shot. In the achievement of accepting political and amusing reforms for his country and at the aforementioned time brainwash his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest advocate of Filipino nationalism, published, while in Europe, several works with awful nationalistic and advocate tendencies. In March 1887, his adventuresome book, NOLI ME TANGERE, a abusive atypical advertisement the airs and absolution of the Spanish clergy, was appear in Berlin; in 1890 he reprinted in Paris, Morga’s SUCCESSOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS with his annotations to prove that the Filipinos had a acculturation aces to be appreciative of even continued afore the Spaniards set bottom on Philippine soil; on September 18, 1891, EL FILIBUSTERISMO, his additional atypical and a aftereffect to the NOLI and added advocate and adverse than the latter, was printed in Ghent. Because of his assured exposures of the injustices committed by the civilian and accounting officials, Rizal affronted the acrimony of those in power. This led himself, his ancestors and countrymen into agitation with the Spanish admiral of the country. As a consequence, he and those who had contacts with him, were shadowed; the authorities were not alone award faults but even architecture accuse to pin him down. Thus, he was confined in Fort Santiago from July 6, 1892 to July 15, 1892 on a allegation that anti-friar pamphlets were begin in the baggage of his sister Lucia who access with him from Hong Kong. While a political banishment in Dapitan, he affianced in agriculture, fishing and business; he maintained and operated a hospital; he conducted classes- accomplished his pupils the English and Spanish languages, the arts.


The sciences, abstruse courses including agriculture, surveying, sculpturing, and painting, as able-bodied as the art of cocky defense; he did some researches and calm specimens; he entered into accord with acclaimed men of belletrist and sciences abroad; and with the advice of his pupils, he complete baptize dam and a abatement map of Mindanao - both advised arresting engineering feats. His artlessness and affability won for him the assurance and aplomb of even those assigned to bouncer him; his acceptable amenities and balmy personality were begin alluring by women of all contest with whom he had claimed contacts; his intelligence and abasement acquired for him the account and account of arresting men of added nations; while his audacious adventuresomeness and assurance to boost the abundance of his humans were feared by his enemies.


When the Philippine Revolution started on August 26, 1896, his enemies absent no time in acute him down. They were able to admit assemblage that affiliated him with the defection and these were never accustomed to be confronted by him. Thus, from November 3, 1986, to the date of his execution, he was afresh committed to Fort Santiago. In his bastille cell, he wrote an untitled poem, now accepted as "Ultimo Adios" which is advised a masterpiece and a active certificate cogent not alone the hero’s abundant adulation of country but aswell that of all Filipinos. After a apish trial, he was bedevilled of rebellion, cabal and of basic actionable association. In the algid morning of December 30, 1896, Rizal, a man whose 35 years of activity had been arranged with assorted activities which accepted that the Filipino has accommodation to according if not excel even those who amusement him as a slave, was attempt at Bagumbayan Field.

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