Thursday, January 21, 2010

Do You Know The Philippine National Hero?

Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda
A.K.A. Jose Rizal

June 19, 1861, Jose Rizal was born, Teodora Alonso and Francisco Mercado Rizal was the parents of Jose Rizal. His parents lived on the tenant land in Calamba,Laguna.

Rizal was under the tutorship of his mother Teodora Alonzo, who teach him the 3 R’s,At the age of three, Jose mastered the alphabet. He could read the Vulgate bible in spanish version after two years of tutoring him. He wrote a play in Tagalog when he was eight years old and this was presented at Calamba fiesta.

At the age of eleven Jose Rizal’s formal schooling started. Christian doctrine, Sacred history, Latin, Spanish, Greek, French, English, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Universal history, Spanish history, Latin literature, rhetoric and poetics, Social ethics, Psychology, Logic and other branches of Philosophy was included subject in the curriculum of the five-year secondary course he took.

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