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Triumph of Science over Death
Jose Rizal, 1890
This is actually Rizal’s gift to Prof. Blumentritt. Sculpture currently in exhibit in the Fort Santiago. A life size concrete version exists in the UP Manila College of Medicine Building.
El Hermano Mayor: The other Rizal
Paciano Rizal (1851 - 1930) is ten years senior to Rizal but it did not stop the two from developing close relations. Also, in the Mercado Children, only Jose and Paciano are male.
To Rizal, Paciano is is more refined and serious than I, taller, more slender and fairer in complexion than I, with a nose that is fine, beautiful and sharp-pointed, but he is bow-legged. At 6 feet tall, he was taller than Jose himself.
Also, it was Paciano’s connection to the martyred priest Jose Burgos that made him drop out of UST and make his brother, Jose to adopt the family name Rizal in his entry in the Ateneo.
It was Paciano’s suggestion that Jose should visit Europe and study people there, in order to learn the society in Europe. All of this was done in the name of preparng the Philippines for independence and nationhood. Also, Paciano who is the one who remits money to Rizal.
By the time Rizal in in Fort Santiago, the Spanish tortured Paciano to incriminate Rizal, even near death. He served President Aguinaldo as a general of the Revolution and the First Minister of Finance of the First Philippine Republic. At the Fall of the Philippine Republic, he will be forced to swear allegiance to the American Flag, declining saying that he will leave Americans in peace, accepting that they lost and surrendered.
Governor (and future US President) Taft offered him a position in the colonial government but declined. When the government offered Teodora Alonso a lifetime pension for just being the mother of Jose Rizal, he declined because it is within his duty as the eldest male to take care of their mother after the death of their father.
He settled in Los Baños after the war because their property in Calamba was confiscated, where he died peacefully April 13, 1930.
Curiously, the Rizal Brothers made a pact not to marry, for the cause of the country. It is still a big question if Rizal really married Josephine Bracken, but Paciano had a mistress in the identity of Severina Decena.
It was if there would be no Paciano, there will be no Jose. Jose had his place in Philippine and even World history. Paciano also is his own man, of course with his own rightful place in history. Paciano instilled the sacrifices & ideals of the three martyrs to Rizal and Rizal wielded them greatly to finally institute what was developing in the islands for long since Conde Luis Varela: the Filipino Nation.
PS: There are only 2 photos of Don Paciano, this one, a stolen shot from one of his sons. The other one is Paciano lying in state in his coffin. Paciano Rizal did not like to be photographed.
His early exposure to several fields of knowledge by his family in Calamba, the personal guidance of his Jesuit Mentors, regular correspondence with his peers in Europe, and exposure to the latest technological breakthroughs in Europe and his travels around the globe enabled him to master several fields of knowledge from the humanities, the arts, and the sciences. Our National Hero is unique to the world in the sense that while Spain has El Cid, US has Washington and China has Mao Zedong and other countries which are all revolutionary leaders or warriors, our National hero is a versatile genius and an intellectual.
Rizal is a:
Poet - His first mentor when it comes to poetry was her mother herself, also an excellent poet. His talent for the Muses was further honed in the Ateneo Municipal.
Sculptor - He first practiced sculpture in the Ateneo. He was taught by Father Sanchez, delighted by Rizal’s prowess, he asked him to mold the Sacred Heart of Jesus on a Wood. Before his death, the same sculpture will find itself on the cell of Rizal in the Fort Santiago.
Novelist - Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are the finest examples of his literary talent when it comes to prose. Translated to many language, the novels remain to be the jewels of Philippine Literature.
Linguist - He is proficient in 22 languages. Need to say more? This talent of him enabled him to establish numerous romantic relations with different women in different countries.
Engineer - He obtained training to be a surveyor in Ateneo Municipal. During his exile in Dapitan, he established a waterworks system that supplied water in Dapitan. He also built the lights in the streets of Dapitan, using oil. Way before electricity came.
Doctor - He is a practicing ophthalmologist, and even cured his mother’s cataract. He had patients from different parts of the country and even Hong Kong visiting Dapitan to have their eyes cured by Rizal.
Teacher - While on banishment in Dapitan, he settled a school in his hut where he taught boys writing, arithmetic and reading.
Farmer - Exposed to their farm in calamba, he used what he knew to develop his estate in Dapitan.
Businessman - He engaged in trading abaca while in Dapitan.
Athlete - He learned athletics from his Uncle Manuel. Also played fencing with Juan Luna in Spain. He is also a marksman.
Scientist - Among one of his great contributions to science is the discovery of a lizard and bat.
Journalist - One of his propaganda participation is reflected in his articles in La Solidaridad as Dimasalang or Laong Laan. At the time he ceased writing for the newspaper, readership declined.
There are more, but I can’t even enumerate it all due to the healthy number of it. Rizal’s era was the era when the Filipinos, said to be inferior from the Spanish from the Iberian Peninsula, is busy proving to the Spaniards that the Filipino could equal or even best them. There was Luna in Painting, Tampingco in Sculpture, Roxas in Architecture. Then Rizal came, his versatile genius proved beyond reasonable doubt, that the Filipino could par even what was deem as racially superior Caucasians. Even his friend, Ferdinand Blumentritt said “Rizal was the greatest product of the Philippines and his coming to the world was like the appearance of a rare comet, whose rare brilliance appears only every other century.”
@11 months ago with 1259 notesRizal is a very fantastic diary writer. He could describe everything that happened to his day in detail. At barely eleven he went to Manila to study in the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and University of Santo Tomas. His Manila is the Manila after the 1863 earthquake. Let’s peek into some places in Manila that the national hero left an imprint. Sadly some of this places don’t exist anymore, or transferred to the other sites.
Ateneo Municipal de Manila. Who will deny that Rizal is the greatest product of the Jesuit Fathers back in the Spanish Period and even today? He studied here for his Bachelor of Arts and he also studied Surveying in this same institution. The Old Ateneo Campus is in the corner of Calle Anda and Calle Arsobispo in Intramuros, currently the clamshell area. Ateneo is located now in Loyola Heights in Quezon city.
University of Santo Tomas, he studied to become a Doctor of Medicine in the University. He did not finish studying here because he sailed to Spain and continued his Medical Education in Madrid. The old university site is in Calle Santo Tomas in front of Colegio de Santa Rosa where his mother got her education. BF building currently occupies the site and the University is now in Sampaloc, Manila.
Manila Cathedral. It was in the cathedral bell tower that Rizal rescued a tangled kite to comfort a younger Ateneo Interno. The event was immortalized in the folk song Sarangola ni Pepe.
Hotel de Oriente. after the release of the Noli. Amid warnings from friends and family due to the controversy stirred by the Noli, Rizal came home after a long time in Europe. Before he went back to Calamba, they stayed in the Hotel de Oriente in Binondo specifically in Room 22 where a good view of the Binondo Church is seen. Hotel de Oriente is also the first luxury hotel in the Philippines. The Hotel was destroyed during the war.
Intramuros. When Rizal became an boarding student both in the Ateneo and UST, he used to live and walk within this walls. At 6 Calle Santo Tomas, he will board in his uncle’s house and will meet Leonor Rivera. In 1896, the last moments of his life will be spent in the Cuartel de Espana (PLM Site) for his military trial, Fort Santiago for his detention and the Postigo del Palacio in his exit in the Walled City and entry to martyrdom.
Also, his 2 Novels are all set in Manila, aside from the fictional Tiani and San Diego. Here are some places in Manila that was included in Rizal’s literary works, not all confined to the 2 Novels.
Calle Anloage. The Noli starts at a feast in Kapitan Tiago’s house located in this street. The street is now called Juan Luna Street.
Fonda de Lala. This is the hotel where the Noli hero Ibarra stayed the night after he met Maria Clara again and before he went back to San Diego.
In the Chapter VIII of the Noli, he described the Escolta as Such:
“The Escolta appeared less beautiful inspite of the fact that an imposing building with caryatids carved on its front row now occupied the place of the old row of shops.”In the Fili, Escolta was the address of the hero, Simoun.
Santa Clara nunnery. Women entering the nunnery alive are never seen again by the relatives. It was the fate the heroine of the Noli Maria Clara accepted upon hearing the news of the death of her beloved Ibarra.
Pansiteria Macanista de Buen Gusto. This is where the students convened after the failure of the movement for the establishment of an Academy for the Spanish Language. Yes, the place existed. Before coffee shops, it was the pansiteria where Filipinos have their important functions.
Some image sources:
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Image:Fonda.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12094255@N02/3299263143/
@11 months ago with 58 notes
“The Escolta appeared less beautiful inspite of the fact that an imposing building with caryatids carved on its front row now occupied the place of the old row of shops.”
Chapter 8
Recollections
Noli me Tangere, Jose Rizal
How original, Barney Stinson.
Bernardino Nozaleda, O. P. & Camilo de Polavieja, Marquis de Polavieja
Msgr. Nozaleda is the last Spanish Archbishop of Manila. Due to his political manipulations, he had Ramon Blanco replaced by Camilo de Polavieja as the Governor of the Philippines at the heat of the Philippine Revolution. Camilo de Polavieja signed the sentence of Rizal December 28, 1896. Together, they sealed the fate of Rizal, the Philippines and Spain.
Though they lived long enough to see the aftermath of the Revolution, they are even disgraced by fellow Spaniards, blaming them for the loss of one of the last Spanish Possessions overseas. Msgr. Nozaleda resigned from Manila in 1902 and was assigned in Valencia, where the news of his disgraceful acts in Manila reached there. He was not allowed entry in the City of Valencia. After publishing his forced Defence, he died in a Convent October 7, 1927
@11 months ago with 13 notes
If Rizal had a Facebook account, his status would be It’s Complicated.
Bernardino Nozaleda, O. P. & Camilo de Polavieja, Marquis de Polavieja
Msgr. Nozaleda is the last Spanish Archbishop of Manila. Due to his political manipulations, he had Ramon Blanco replaced by Camilo de Polavieja as the Governor of the Philippines at the heat of the Philippine Revolution. Camilo de Polavieja signed the sentence of Rizal December 28, 1896. Together, they sealed the fate of Rizal, the Philippines and Spain.
Though they lived long enough to see the aftermath of the Revolution, they are even disgraced by fellow Spaniards, blaming them for the loss of one of the last Spanish Possessions overseas. Msgr. Nozaleda resigned from Manila in 1902 and was assigned in Valencia, where the news of his disgraceful acts in Manila reached there. He was not allowed entry in the City of Valencia. After publishing his forced Defence, he died in a Convent October 7, 1927
His early exposure to several fields of knowledge by his family in Calamba, the personal guidance of his Jesuit Mentors, regular correspondence with his peers in Europe, and exposure to the latest technological breakthroughs in Europe and his travels around the globe enabled him to master several fields of knowledge from the humanities, the arts, and the sciences. Our National Hero is unique to the world in the sense that while Spain has El Cid, US has Washington and China has Mao Zedong and other countries which are all revolutionary leaders or warriors, our National hero is a versatile genius and an intellectual.
Rizal is a:
Poet - His first mentor when it comes to poetry was her mother herself, also an excellent poet. His talent for the Muses was further honed in the Ateneo Municipal.
Sculptor - He first practiced sculpture in the Ateneo. He was taught by Father Sanchez, delighted by Rizal’s prowess, he asked him to mold the Sacred Heart of Jesus on a Wood. Before his death, the same sculpture will find itself on the cell of Rizal in the Fort Santiago.
Novelist - Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are the finest examples of his literary talent when it comes to prose. Translated to many language, the novels remain to be the jewels of Philippine Literature.
Linguist - He is proficient in 22 languages. Need to say more? This talent of him enabled him to establish numerous romantic relations with different women in different countries.
Engineer - He obtained training to be a surveyor in Ateneo Municipal. During his exile in Dapitan, he established a waterworks system that supplied water in Dapitan. He also built the lights in the streets of Dapitan, using oil. Way before electricity came.
Doctor - He is a practicing ophthalmologist, and even cured his mother’s cataract. He had patients from different parts of the country and even Hong Kong visiting Dapitan to have their eyes cured by Rizal.
Teacher - While on banishment in Dapitan, he settled a school in his hut where he taught boys writing, arithmetic and reading.
Farmer - Exposed to their farm in calamba, he used what he knew to develop his estate in Dapitan.
Businessman - He engaged in trading abaca while in Dapitan.
Athlete - He learned athletics from his Uncle Manuel. Also played fencing with Juan Luna in Spain. He is also a marksman.
Scientist - Among one of his great contributions to science is the discovery of a lizard and bat.
Journalist - One of his propaganda participation is reflected in his articles in La Solidaridad as Dimasalang or Laong Laan. At the time he ceased writing for the newspaper, readership declined.
There are more, but I can’t even enumerate it all due to the healthy number of it. Rizal’s era was the era when the Filipinos, said to be inferior from the Spanish from the Iberian Peninsula, is busy proving to the Spaniards that the Filipino could equal or even best them. There was Luna in Painting, Tampingco in Sculpture, Roxas in Architecture. Then Rizal came, his versatile genius proved beyond reasonable doubt, that the Filipino could par even what was deem as racially superior Caucasians. Even his friend, Ferdinand Blumentritt said “Rizal was the greatest product of the Philippines and his coming to the world was like the appearance of a rare comet, whose rare brilliance appears only every other century.”
Rizal is a very fantastic diary writer. He could describe everything that happened to his day in detail. At barely eleven he went to Manila to study in the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and University of Santo Tomas. His Manila is the Manila after the 1863 earthquake. Let’s peek into some places in Manila that the national hero left an imprint. Sadly some of this places don’t exist anymore, or transferred to the other sites.
Ateneo Municipal de Manila. Who will deny that Rizal is the greatest product of the Jesuit Fathers back in the Spanish Period and even today? He studied here for his Bachelor of Arts and he also studied Surveying in this same institution. The Old Ateneo Campus is in the corner of Calle Anda and Calle Arsobispo in Intramuros, currently the clamshell area. Ateneo is located now in Loyola Heights in Quezon city.
University of Santo Tomas, he studied to become a Doctor of Medicine in the University. He did not finish studying here because he sailed to Spain and continued his Medical Education in Madrid. The old university site is in Calle Santo Tomas in front of Colegio de Santa Rosa where his mother got her education. BF building currently occupies the site and the University is now in Sampaloc, Manila.
Manila Cathedral. It was in the cathedral bell tower that Rizal rescued a tangled kite to comfort a younger Ateneo Interno. The event was immortalized in the folk song Sarangola ni Pepe.
Hotel de Oriente. after the release of the Noli. Amid warnings from friends and family due to the controversy stirred by the Noli, Rizal came home after a long time in Europe. Before he went back to Calamba, they stayed in the Hotel de Oriente in Binondo specifically in Room 22 where a good view of the Binondo Church is seen. Hotel de Oriente is also the first luxury hotel in the Philippines. The Hotel was destroyed during the war.
Intramuros. When Rizal became an boarding student both in the Ateneo and UST, he used to live and walk within this walls. At 6 Calle Santo Tomas, he will board in his uncle’s house and will meet Leonor Rivera. In 1896, the last moments of his life will be spent in the Cuartel de Espana (PLM Site) for his military trial, Fort Santiago for his detention and the Postigo del Palacio in his exit in the Walled City and entry to martyrdom.
Also, his 2 Novels are all set in Manila, aside from the fictional Tiani and San Diego. Here are some places in Manila that was included in Rizal’s literary works, not all confined to the 2 Novels.
Calle Anloage. The Noli starts at a feast in Kapitan Tiago’s house located in this street. The street is now called Juan Luna Street.
Fonda de Lala. This is the hotel where the Noli hero Ibarra stayed the night after he met Maria Clara again and before he went back to San Diego.
In the Chapter VIII of the Noli, he described the Escolta as Such:
“The Escolta appeared less beautiful inspite of the fact that an imposing building with caryatids carved on its front row now occupied the place of the old row of shops.”In the Fili, Escolta was the address of the hero, Simoun.
Santa Clara nunnery. Women entering the nunnery alive are never seen again by the relatives. It was the fate the heroine of the Noli Maria Clara accepted upon hearing the news of the death of her beloved Ibarra.
Pansiteria Macanista de Buen Gusto. This is where the students convened after the failure of the movement for the establishment of an Academy for the Spanish Language. Yes, the place existed. Before coffee shops, it was the pansiteria where Filipinos have their important functions.
Some image sources:
If Rizal had a Facebook account, his status would be It’s Complicated.
