Siblings of Rizal

1. RIZAL PARENTS
AND SIBLINGS

2. OBJECTIVE:
Identifying Rizal Parent’s and his
siblings

3. Francisco Engracio Rizal
Mercado y Alejandro II
• Was born May 11, 1818 at biñan, Youngest
of Cirila Alejandro and Juan Mercado
• Fourth generation of a Chinese immigrant
in the late 1600’s named Domingo
• Cabeza de Barangay (head of the Barangay)
• Jose Rizal regarded him as “Model of
fathers”
• He died on January 5, 1898

4. Doña Teodora Morales Alonzo
Realonda y Quintos
• Was born in Meisik (Chinatown),
Manila on November 9, 1827
• Martinent, devoted, well-mannered
and a diligent mother.
• Studied and mastered Spanish
language at Colegio de Santa Rosa.
• A remarkable women
• Died: August 16, 1911

5. RIZAL SIBLINGS

6. Saturnina (1850-1913)
• Birth: June 4, 1850
• Eldest of the siblings and was commonly referred to as
“neneng”.
• She attended La College in manila’s Sta. Ana.
• Her husband was Manuel Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas.
• In 1909, she published Pascual Poblete’s Tagalog
translation of Noli Me Tangere.
• Died in September 14, 1913 at the age of 63

7. Paciano (1851-1930)
• Birth: March 7, 1815
• He was commonly referred to as Ciano.
• He attended the Colegio de San Jose in Manila where
he studied latin maestro justiniano Cruz
• Jose refered to him as ‘uto’
• He was an ardent and dynamic katipunero
• He was apprehended by American forces in 1900 as a
result of his involvement as military commander of
the revolutionary forces in Laguna
• He married his common-law wife, seveina, and they
had two children.
• He died of tuberculosis at the age of 79.

8. Narcisa (1852-1939)
• She was called Sisa by her siblings.
• It was believed that she also supported her brother jose’s
studies abroad and perhaps the only amongst the siblings
that could narrate the poems of jose.
• She was married to Antonio lopez, a teacher and musician.
• She was one of the family members who visited Rizal in his
prison cell all day before his execution on December 30,
1896

9. Olimpia (1855-1887)
• Was called as Ypia.
• She was married to Silvestro Ubaldo, a telegraph
operator from manila.
• Died on September 1887

10. Lucia (1857-1919)
• She married Mariano Herbosa.
• Delfina, Concepcion, Patrocinio, Teodosio,
Estanislao, Paz, Victoria, and Jose were Lucia and
Mariano’s children.
• Mariano died in 1889 as a result of an epidemic,
but he was denied as a Christian burial. This was
due to the fact that he was Jose’s brother-in-law
• In 1919, at the age of 62 Lucia Died

11. Maria (1859-1945)
• Year 1859, Maria was born
• “Bilang”
• She married Daniel Faustino Cruz Binan, Laguna
and they had five children.
• Mauricio, Petrona, Prudencio, Paz and
Encarnacion.
• Mauricio Cruz, one of maria’s children, became a
student of Jose Rizal in Dapital and was known to
be one of his uncle’s favorites.
• In 1945, Maria died at the age of 86

12. Conception (1862-1865)
• Eight child
• Was called “concha”
• She died at the age of three.

13. Josefa (1865-1945)
• Ninth child in the family
• “Panggoy”
• She was unmarried and lived with her sister
Trinidad until death.
• She was said to have suffered from epilepsy.
• Died at the age of 80

14. Trinidad (1868-1951)
• She remained single and shared a home with her
sister Josefa.
• She was the one who received from Jose an alcohol
lamp in which he secretly hid the “Last Farewell”.
Also known as “Mi Ultimos Adios”. A poem Rizal
wrote on the eve of his death in 1896.

15. Soledad (1870-1929)
• Petname “Choleng”
• The youngest of the Rizal siblings
• Married Pantaleon Quintero and they had five
children.

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