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José Rizal

1861–1896 · Calamba, Laguna · Writer and physician

He fought an empire with two novels

He was an eye doctor, a poet, a sculptor and a speaker of many languages. He never led an army. Yet the Spanish feared two of his novels more than most rebellions. You are José Rizal.

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The real life of José Rizal

José Rizal was born in Calamba, Laguna, on 19 June 1861. He studied in Manila and Madrid and trained as an eye doctor in Paris and Heidelberg. His novels Noli Me Tángere (Berlin, 1887) and El Filibusterismo (Ghent, 1891) exposed abuses of colonial and friar rule and made him the leading voice of the reform movement. In July 1892, days after founding La Liga Filipina, he was arrested and deported to Dapitan, where he spent four years teaching, healing and building. After the revolution broke out in 1896 he was arrested on his way to serve as a volunteer doctor in Cuba, tried by court-martial for rebellion, sedition and conspiracy, and executed at Bagumbayan, Manila, on 30 December 1896. The night before, he wrote the farewell poem now called Mi último adiós. His execution turned the revolution into a national cause.
  1. Wikipedia — José Rizal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Rizal
  2. Wikipedia — Andrés Bonifacio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Bonifacio

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