2. Chapter 1:
• June 19, 1861 – birth date of Jose Rizal
• Born in Calamba, Laguna Province
• June 22, 1861 – baptismal of Rizal
• nickname “Pepe”
• the greatest Filipino hero and peerless genius
Advent of a National Hero
3. • Father Rufino Collantes - baptized Rizal
• Father Pedro Casañas - Rizal’s godfather
• Mariano Herbosa – nephew of Casañas and
will marry Lucia
• “Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y Alonzo
Realonda”
• Lieutenant-General Jose Lemery –
the governor general of the Philippines when
Rizal was born
4. Meanings of name
• Jose - was chosen by his mother who was a devotee of the Christian
saint SanJose (St. Joseph)
• Protacio - from Gervacio P. which come from a Christian calendar
• Mercado- adopted in 1731 by Domigo Lamco (the paternal great-
great-grandfather of Jose Rizal) which the Spanish term mercado
means ‘market’ in English
• Rizal - from the word ‘Ricial’ in Spanish means a field where wheat, cut
while stillgreen, sprouts again
• Alonzo- old surname of his mother
• Y - and
• Realonda - it was used by Doña Teodora from the surname of her
godmother based on the culture by
6. Francisco Mercado Rizal
• Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y
Alejandra II
• Born on May 11, 1818
• Born in Biñan, Laguna
• June 28, 1848, he married Teodora
• the youngest of the 13 children of
Cirila Alejandro and Juan Mercado
7. Teodora Alonzo Realonda
• Teodora Morales Alonzo Realonda y
Quintos
• Born on November 9, 1827
• Rizal’s first teacher
• second child of Lorenzo
Alonso and Brigida de Quintos
• went to College of Sta. Rosa
12. • Domingo Lameo – great-great grandfather
– A Chinese immigrant from Chang chow “China’s City
of Spring”, he was married to Ines De la Rosa
• 1731 – he adopt the name ‘Mercado’ meaning market
• Francisco Mercado – Domingo Lameo’s son
• Juan Mercado – Francisco’s son, married to Cirila
Alejandro
• Francisco Mercado – Rizal’s father (son of Juan
Mercado)
14. • Lakan Dula – descendant
• Eugenio Ursua – great-great grandfather of Rizal
– he was married to Benigna
• Regina – daughter of Eugenio, married to Manuel De
Quintos
• Brigida – daughter of Regina, married to Lorenzo
Alberto, mother of Narcisa, Teodora, Gregorio, Jose
and Manuel
• Rizal – “racial”; meaning “new pasture” and “green
field”