Biography of jose rizal summarized summary

A known textbook author in Rizal discusses these topics for us here. So join us, as we study the controversial life of our hero. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born on June 19, , approximately 35 years before that fateful day. The seventh of the eleven children born to a relatively well-off family in a Dominican-owned tenant land in Calamba, Laguna, Jose Rizal lived and died during the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines.

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Cruz, Manila. In his early childhood, Jose had mastered the alphabet and learned to write and read. His early readings included the Spanish version of the Vulgate Bible. At young age, he already showed inclinations to arts. He amazed his family by his pencil drawings, sketches, and moldings of clay. Later in his childhood, he showed special talent in painting and sculpture, wrote a Tagalog play which was presented at a Calamba fiesta, and penned a short play in Spanish which was presented in school.

In the same year , he took Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas, while at the same time enrolled in a course in land surveying at the Ateneo.