Memoirs of Student in Manila By: P. Jacinto (A Pen Name of Jose Rizal)

Memoirs of Student in Manila
By: P. Jacinto (A pen name of Jose Rizal)
 This is the student memoirs or reminiscences of Jose

Rizal. He wrote it from 1879 to 1881 from the ages of 17
to 20. The English translation is by the Jose Rizal national
centennial commission. It is taken from the book Jose
Rizal: Life works and writings of genius, writer, scientist
and national hero by Gregorio F. Zaide and Sonia M.
Zaide (Metro Manila national book store publishers).
CHAPTER 1: My Birth – Early Years
 Jose Rizal was born in Calamba on 19 of June 1861

between eleven midnight, a few days before full a moon. It
was Wednesday and Rizlas mother almost passed away
giving birth to Jose Rizal because of his huge head had she
not vowed to the virgin of antipolo to take rizal to her
sanctuary by the way of pilgrimage.
 The education that he received since his early infancies
was perhaps what has shaped his habits like a jar that
retains the odor of the body that it first held.
 Rizal had a nurse named Aya who loved him very much
and in order to make him take supper (which he had on the
terrace on moonlit nights.) frighted him with the sudden
apparitions of some formidable Asuang (ghosts), of a
frightful Nuno or Parce-nobis as she used to call an
imaginary being similar to the Bu of the Europeans.
 Rizal had nine sisters and one brother. His father had given
them educational commensurate with their small fortune and
through thrift he was able to build a stone house, and bought
another to erect a little nipa house in the middle of their
orchard under the shade of banana trees and others.
 Their mother would make them recite the rosary all together.
Afterwards they would go to the terrace or to some window
from which the moon can be seen and his nurse would tell
stories, sometimes mournful, sometimes gay.
 When he was four years old, he lost his little sister
(Concha) and then for the first time Rizal shed tears
caused by loved and grief for until then he had shed them
only because of his stubbornness that his loving proving
mother so well knew how to correct. She taught him how
to read, she taught him how to stammer the humble
prayers that he addressed fervently to God and now that he
was a young man, ah where is that simplicity that
innocence of his early days?
RIZAL’S FAMILY
Father of Jose Rizal Mother of Jose Rizal

FRANCISCO MERCADO (1818-1898) TEODORA ALONSO (1827-1913)
SATURNINA RIZAL PACIANO RIZAL NARCISA RIZAL OLYMPIA RIZAL LUCIA RIZAL
(1850-1913) (1851-1930) (1852-1939) (1855-1887) (1857-1919)
Eldest child of the Rizal- only brother of Jose The third child. The fourth child. The fifth child.
Alonzo marriage. Rizal and the second
child.
CONCEPCION
RIZAL (1862-1865)
The eight child. Died
at the age of three.
JOSE RIZAL
MARIA RIZAL
(1861-1896)
(1859-1945)
The second son
The sixth child.
and the seventh
child.
JOSEFA RIZAL TRINIDAD SOLEDAD RIZAL
(1865-1945) RIZAL (1868- (1870-1929)
The ninth child. 1951) The youngest child
The tenth child.
 In his own town Rizal learned how to write and his father who
looked after his education paid an old man (who had been his
classmate) to give him the first lessons in Latin and he stayed
at their house. After five months he died almost having
foretold his death when he was still in good health. He
remembered that he came to manila with his father after the
birth of the third girl (Trinidad) who followed him, and it was
on 6 of June 1868. They boarded a casco a very heavy craft.
He had never gone through the lake of La Laguna consciously
and the first time.
 Taytay, Antipolo, Manila, Santa Ana where they visited his eldest sister
(Saturnina) who was at that time a boarding student at La Concordia. He
returned to his town and stayed in it until 1870, the first year that
marked his separation from his family.
 This is what he remembered of those times that figure in the forefront of

his life like the dawn of the day. Alas when shall the night come to
shelter him so that he may rest in deep slumber? God knows it! In the
meantime, now that he is in the spring of life separated from the beings
whom he loved most in the world, now that sad, he wrote these pages.
Let us leave providence to act, and let us give time to time awaiting
from the will of God the future, good or bad, so that with this he may
succeed to expiate his sins.
 P. Jacinto was the first name of used by Rizal in his writings. His other pen
names were Laong-Laan and Dimas Alang.
 Filipinos, Spaniards and Chinese venerated the Virgin of Antipolo since

Spanish colonial days. The month of May is the time of pilgrimage to her
shrine. She is also called Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, the patron
saint of travelers. One legend says her image saved the shipwreck the crew
of a ship that bore her from Acapulco to Manila many years ago.
 The name Diana, goddess of the moon and of hunting.

 Casco is a Philippine River craft made of wood used for passengers
and freight. The catig is the vessel.
 A well-known boarding school for girls, the sisters of charity

administered La Concordia College. It was founded in 1868 by
Margarita Roxas de Ayala, a wealthy Filipino woman, who gave her
country home called La Concordia in Sta Ana, Manila to the school
and hence its popular designation. Its official name is Colegio de la
Immaculada Concepcion.
 Rizal Avenue, named for the national hero absorbed this old street.
At that point its name was dropped.

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Memoirs of Student in Manila

By: P. Jacinto (A pen name of Jose Rizal)

 This is the student memoirs or reminiscences of Jose

 Jose Rizal was born in Calamba on 19 of June 1861

Father of Jose Rizal Mother of Jose Rizal

 This is what he remembered of those times that figure in the forefront of

 Filipinos, Spaniards and Chinese venerated the Virgin of Antipolo since

 The name Diana, goddess of the moon and of hunting.

 A well-known boarding school for girls, the sisters of charity

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