Prelim1 Flashcards
The first formal schooling
Biñan
Natal town of his father near Calamba
Biñan
A private school under
Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
Studied in Biñan from
June 1870- December 17, 1871
9 years old
Private tutors
Maestro Celestino
Maestro Lucas Padua
First lessons in latin
Leon Monroy
Accompanied by in __
Paciano
Carromata
One and one half hours drive
Aunt’s house
Jose’s cousin who went sightseeing
Leandro
Jose became
Depressed and homesick
Private School
House of Maestro Justiano Aquino Cruz
Small nipa hut 30 meters from the Jose’s Aunt’s house
Questions
Do you know Spanish and Latin?
A little
The boys in the class laughed especially
Pedro, Maestro’s Son
Description of the teacher
Tall, thin, long-necked man
Wore a sinamay shirt made by Batangueñas
Grammars of Nebrija and Gainza
First day in school afternoon while the teacher is having his siesta
Jose challenged pedro to a fight (smaller and younger) and defeated him
After the school in the afternoon
Classmate- Andres Lakundanan challenged to an arm wrestling on the sidewalk, lost and “nearly cracked his head”
Near the school the house of the painter, father-in-law of the school teacher
Juancho
Freely gave him lessons and became apprentices and favorite painters of the class
Old Juancho
Jose and Jose Guevarra
Methodical life
Spartan simplicity
He beat all Biñan boys
Spanish and Latin
Jealous by boys and punished by teacher
Letter from Saturnina
December 1871
Steamer, Talim Biñan-Calamba
Took care of him on board
Arturo Camps, a French man and a friend of his father
Joyous and memorable one for him
Christmas of 1871
After the happy Christmas holiday in 1871
Don Francisco thought of sending Jose to Manila to study
She was arrested on a malicious charge
Aided her brother, Jose Alberto in trying to poison her wife
A rich Biñan landowner went to Europe on a business trip
The wife abandoned her home and children and living with another man
Enraged, he planned to divorce her but Doña Teodora avert the family scandal and persuade her to forgive
The unfaithful wife connived with __ to fabricate evidence
The lieutenant of Guardia Civil
The vengeful judge sent her to
walk 50 km by foot to provincial jail in Santa Cruz (Capital of Laguna)
Reached to Supreme Court(Royal Audiencia)
Not accorded greater respect than the Filipino guests in Rizal Home
Martyrdom of GomBurZa
Execution- January 20, 1872
Paciano boarded with Father Burgos while studying at College of San Jose stopped school, went to Calamba to tell the story to Jose
Jose was 11 years old
Four months after GomBurza
Studied in Ateneo Municipal,
Mother still in Jail
Did not celebrate 11th birthday
Former name of Ateneo Municipal
Escuela Pia (Charity school)
A school for poor boys in Manila which was establish by the city government in _
1817
Ateneo Municipal
Jose accompanied by __went to Manila on __
Paciano
June 10, 1872
Entrance exam
Christian doctrine
Arithmetic
Reading
College of San Juan de Letran
Matriculated atAteneo Municipal- upon return
College registrar refused to admit him for two reasons
Father Margin Ferrando
Late for registration
Sickly and undersized for his age
The lieutenant had an ax to grind against the Rizal family
Rizal’s father refused to give him fodder for his horse
He was a trusted assistant of Burgos in the Fight for Filipinization of the Parishes
Paciano
a College under the supervision of Spanish Jesuits
Ateneo Municipal
This college was a bitter rival of the Dominican-owned Collfe, San Juan de Letran
Ateneo Municipal
When the Jesuits who had been expelled from the Philippines __, returned to Manila in __, they were given the management of the Escuela Pia and later became to the Ateneo de Municipal
1768
1859
After passing the entrance examination
Returned to Calamba a few days with family to attend a town fiesta
His first first wished him to study at __ but later changed his mind and decided to send him to Ateneo instead
Letran
Upon the intercession of the nephew of Father Burgos, he was reluctantly admitted at the Ateneo
Manuel Xerex Burgos
First of his family to adopt the surname “Rizal” and registered this name at Ateneo because their family name had come under the suspicion of Spanish Authorities
Jose
“Mercado”
He had used “Mercado” as his surname at the College of San Jose and he was known to the authorities as Father Burgos’s favorite student and helper
Paciano
Location of Ateneo
Intramural, within the wall of Manila
Jose was the first boarded in a house outside Intramuros
Caraballo street, 25 minutes walk from college
This boarding house was owned by a spinster
Titay
Titay owed the Rizal family the amount
300 pesos
The system of education given by the Jesuits in the Ateneo
Advanced from other colleges in that periods
Promoted of Jesuit System of Education
Physical culture
Fine arts
Scientific studies
Students were divided into two groups:
Roman Empire: Internos (boarders)
Carthaginian Empire: Externos (non-boarders)
The best student in the empire
Emperor
The second best
Tribune
The third best
Decurion
The fourth best
Centurion
The fifth best
The standard bearer
Mechanics
Any student could challenge any officer in his empire to answer questions on the day’s lesson.
His opponent could lose his position if he committed three mistakes.
Any student might be at the end of the line, If he studies hard and was brilliant, he could depose theodicies one after another and be an emperor
They were in perpetual warfare for supremacy in the class
Two groups
First defeat
The banner of the losing party was transferred to the left side of the room
Second defeat
Placed in an inferior position on the right side
Third defeat
Inclined flag was placed on the left
Fourth defeat
Flag was reversed and returned to the right
Fifth defeat
The reversed flag was placed on the left
Sixth defeat
The banner was changed with the figure of a donkey
The Ateneo students uniform
Hemp-fabric trouser
Striped cotton coat
The coat material which later became famous for it was adopted as uniform for the Filipino troops during the days of the First Philippine Republic
Rayadillo
First year in Ateneo
1872-73
Summer Vacation
1873
Second year in Ateneo
1873-74
Third year in Ateneo
1874-75
Fourth Year in Ateneo
1875-76
Last Year in Ateneo
1876-77
First professor in Ateneo
Fr. Jose Bach
Description of Fr. Jose Bech
Tall, thin man with a body slightly bent forward, hurried walking ascetic face, severe and inspired, small deep-sunken eyes, a sharp nose that was almost Greek, and thin lips
Being a newcomer and knowing a little Spanish
Placed at the bottom of the class He was an externo, he was assigned to the Carthaginians occupying the end of the line
After the first week, the frail Calamba boy progressed rapidly
At the end of the month, he became “emperor”
First prize
Religious picture
To improve his Spanish,
Took private lessons in Santa Isabel College during the noon recesses.
He paid three pesos for those extra Spanish lessons but it was money well spent
In the second half of his year in Ateneo
Rizal did not try had enough to retain his scholarship
Because he resented more remarks of his professor
End of the school year, Rizal returned to Calamba for summer vacation
March 1873
Not enjoy his vacation because of his mother’s imprisonment
Sister Neneng (Saturnina) brought him to Tanawan
Without telling his father
He went to Santa Cruz and visited his mother in prison
He told of her his brilliant grades in the Ateneo and tearfully embraced each other
Second year term boarding house
Inside Intramuros at No. 6 Magallanes Street
Landlady was an old widow named Doña Pepay who had a widowed daughter and 4 wins
Nothing unusual happened to Rizal except that he repented having neglected his studies the previous years simply because he was offended by the teacher’s remarks and so to regain his class leadership, he studied harder
Second year in Ateneo
Became an emperor once more
Some of his classmates were new
Among them were three boys in Biñan under Maestro Justiniano
At the end of the second school
Received excellent grades in all subjects and a gold medal
Triumphantly returned to Calamba in March 1874 for summer vacation
Prophecy of Mother’s release
Doña Teodora’s Dream the previous night
Jose interpreted that she would be released in three month’s time
Barely three month’s time
Doña Teodora was set free more proud of her son Jose was like the youthful Joseph in the Bible
Youngest and most beloved son of Jacob
Biblical Joseph
The time when Rizal began to take interest in reading romantic novels (love stories and romantic tales)
Summer vacation in 1874
The first favorite novel of Rizal
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The hero in prison, spectacular escape from the dungeon of Chateau d’If, his finding of the buried treasure on the rocky island of Monte Cristo and his dramatic revenge on his enemies who wronged him
Edmond Dantes
He persuaded his father to buy him a costly set of books
Cesar Cantu’s Historical work entitled Universal History
According to him, this valuable work was of great aid in his studies to win more prizes in Ateneo
Cesar Cantu’s Historical work entitled Universal History
What impressed him in this book were Jagor’s keen observation of the defect of Spanish colonization and prophecy that someday Spain would lose the Philippines and that America would come to success as her colonizer
Travels in the Philippines by Dr. Feodor Jagor German scientist traveler
Third year performance
Grades remained excellent in all subjects but won one medal in Latin but failed to win one on Spanish
Not impressed by his scholastic work
He became an internee in the Ateneo and the professor was a great educator and scholar
Fourth year
Fr. Francisco Sanchez
He described the Jesuit professor Fr. Francisco
A model of rectitude, solicitude and devotion to his pupils progress
Graduation
Awarded with a highest honors
Degree of Bachelor of Arts
Commencement Day
March 23,1877
Extracurricular activities
Campus leader outside
Active member, later secretary of a religious society of the Marian Congregation
Member of the Academy of Spanish Literature and the Academy of Natural Sciences
Rizal cultivated his literary talents under the guidance of Father Sanchez
Father Jose Villaclara advised him to stop communing with the Muses pay more attention to more practical studies
Painting under
Spanish painter, Augustin Saez
Sculpture under
Filipino sculptor Romualdo de Jesus
Sculptural works
Carved an image of Our Virgin Mary on a piece of batikuling (Philippine hardwood) with his pocketknife
Impressed by Rizal’s sculptural talent requested him to carve him an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesis
Father Llenart
One of Rizal’s contemporaries in the Ateneo
Felix M. Roxas
Two Ateneans
Manzano and Lesaca
Poem to mother
Mi Primera Inspiracion (My first inspiration)
Inspired by Fr. Sanchez
Felicitacion
El Embaque
Hinno A La Flota de Magallanes ( The Departure: Hymn to Magellan’s feet)
Y Es Español: Elcano el Primero en dar la Vuelta (And He is Spanish, Elcano; the First to Circumnavigate the world
El Combate: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo (The Battle:Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo)
Other poems
The Tragedy of St. Eustace
In Memory of my Town
Intimate Alliance between Religion and Good education
Through Education and Country receives light
The Captivity and Triumph: Battle of Lucena and Imprisonment of Boabdil
The Triumphal Entry of the Catholic Monarchs into Granada
The first romance of Rizal
Rizal met a 14 year old Batangueñas from Lipa, Mariano Katigbak
They went to his maternal grandmother
Trozo, Manila
Event
Portrait
They were classmates in La Concordia Collge
Olympia and Segunda
She married
Manuel Luz
