LIFE

Rizal's Romantic Life: Leonor Rivera, Josephine Bracken, and the Women He Loved

Rizal's Romantic Life: Leonor Rivera, Josephine Bracken...

José Rizal was romantically linked to at least nine women throughout his life, f...

Rizal the Polyglot: How He Mastered More Than Twenty Languages

Rizal the Polyglot: How He Mastered More Than Twenty La...

José Rizal was reportedly fluent in twenty-two languages, including Tagalog, Spa...

The Many Talents of José Rizal: Doctor, Writer, Artist, Scientist

The Many Talents of José Rizal: Doctor, Writer, Artist,...

José Rizal defies easy categorization — he was a trained ophthalmologist, a grou...

The Rizal Family's Land Dispute with the Dominican Friars

The Rizal Family's Land Dispute with the Dominican Friars

Between 1887 and 1891, the Rizal family and hundreds of other tenants were caugh...

Growing Up in a Large Family: Rizal Among His Ten Siblings

Growing Up in a Large Family: Rizal Among His Ten Siblings

José Rizal grew up as the seventh of eleven children in a large, close-knit hous...

Rizal's Childhood: Signs of Genius in a Small Laguna Town

Rizal's Childhood: Signs of Genius in a Small Laguna Town

José Rizal's childhood in Calamba, Laguna, showed early signs of the mind he wou...

The Birth of a Hero: José Rizal's Early Childhood in Calamba

The Birth of a Hero: José Rizal's Early Childhood in Ca...

José Rizal's childhood in Calamba, Laguna, laid the foundation for the values, i...

José Rizal: The Life, Family, Education, and Legacy of the Philippine National Hero

José Rizal: The Life, Family, Education, and Legacy of ...

José Rizal (1861–1896) was a Filipino polymath — doctor, writer, linguist, and s...