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8 unusual facts about José Rizal


Blumentritt railway station

It is located at the corner of Old Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue in Sampaloc, Manila and derives its name from nearby Blumentritt Road, which is named after the Czech professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, friend of José Rizal and sympathizer of the Filipino cause.

Cecilio Apóstol

He composed the poem Al Heroes Nacional (To the National Hero) which is dedicated to José Rizal.

Eulogio Despujol, 1st Count of Caspe

It was during his term when José Rizal, leader of the Philippine propaganda movement, was sent to Dapitan island, in Mindanao.

José Rizal's Global Fellowship

In a letter to a friend written from Germany, Rizal expressed his feelings against the public presentation (the use as exhibits) of live Igorots in the Madrid exposition of 1887.

Maphilindo

Maphilindo was initially proposed as a realisation of Filipino national hero Dr. José Rizal dream of uniting the Malay peoples, seen as artificially divided by colonial frontiers.

Saturnina Hidalgo

Saturnina Rizal Mercado de Hidalgo (1850–1913, born as Saturnina Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda) or simply Saturnina Hidalgo was the eldest sister of Philippine national hero José Rizal.

Tomas Arejola

José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Lopez Jaena, Juan Luna and many others became his close friends and they all were one in crying out for reforms in the colonial administration of the country.

Wilhelmsfeld

The doctor, poet, and Philippine national hero, José Rizal, spent an important part of his life in Wilhelmsfeld.


Battle of Pateros

These skirmishes occurred shortly after the execution of Rizal and are considered the renewal of hostilities in Luzon after a period of ceasefire from the Battle of Binakayan to the Rizal execution.

Delfina Herbosa de Natividad

Delfina Rizal Herbosa was born on December 20, 1879 in Calamba, Laguna to Mariano Herbosa and Lucia Rizal, sister of José Rizal, and she is of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese descent.

Francisco Tongio Liongson

During his sojourn in Spain, Liongson was actively involved with the Filipino colony in Madrid interracting with fellow paisanos like his hero, Jose Rizal.

Heroes' Day

Following certain criteria, they found a select group of people who, they believed, should be honoured for their deeds: Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, Apolinario Mabini, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat, Juan Luna, Melchora Aquino, and Gabriela Silang.

La solidaridad

Headed by José Rizal's cousin, Galicano Apacible, it also issued a newspaper of the same name which was published in Barcelona, Spain on February 15, 1889.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.

Rizal sa Dapitan

Rizal sa Dapitan (lit. Rizal in Dapitan), is a 1997 film adaptation of life of the Filipino national hero Dr. José Rizal, starring Albert Martinez as José Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken, the screenplay is by Pete Lacaba.

Valentín Díaz

He was a member of La Liga Filipina, which José Rizal founded to peacefully promote reforms in the Spanish colonial administration of the Philippines.


see also

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

Her family includes her brother, lawyer and diplomat, León María Guerrero, best known for his translations of Rizal's two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as the prize-winning work on Jose Rizal, The First Filipino: her second brother Mario X. Guerrero, was one of the country's first foreign-trained cardiologists.

CE-Learning

El Filibusterismo is Dr. Jose Rizal's sequel to his earlier work Noli Me Tangere.

Last Farewell

"Mi último adiós" (Spanish for "My last farewell"), an 1896 poem by the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal