[Music] [Music] in fact many of the Rizal families descendants are still with us today and have been working hard to live up to the legacy of their famous forebearer let us raise the lineage of bizar's family together with our next speaker the ever Lively Tita behind the immensely popular Mighty magulang account on Tech talk and Facebook Miss Mona Magno velus my name is Mona Magno villus I am the national president of the Autism Society Philippines and I am also a professional genealogist a year ago I started a tick tock account where I talk about history specifically family history or genealogy people know me online as mighty magulang over the last year I have observed how young people are rediscovering history and their family histories thanks to content like mine and increasing accessibility of digitized historical primary records and digitized secondary references books and periodicals similar to the ones you would find at the Philippines Heritage Library the concept of ankan or lahit lahit is a very powerful one for us Filipinos we are clanish by default and we have a deep emotional attachment to our family names and to the provinces and towns where we grew up certain qualities are attached to people from a certain place or to a certain family is even from a medical or physiological perspective physical traits are passed down the likelihood of getting certain diseases are also legacies from our ancestors foreign had 11 children two boys Nine Girls saturnina pashano Narcissa Olympia Lucia Maria Jose Concepcion josefa Trinidad Soledad only conception Rizal also called Concha did not survive childhood she died at the age of three we have to give credit to Jose rizal's parents especially Theodora Alonso rialonda for nurturing Pepe's gifts in his formative years we know about Lola teodora as a teacher and as the inspiration behind Jose rizal's choice to become an ophthalmologist but many do not know about Lola teodora the woman in 1872 when Lola teodora was 45 years old and Jose Rizal was 11 years old she was unjustly accused of trying to poison her half-brother and she was jailed for two years in 1891 when she was 64 years old almost blind from cataracts she was made to walk from Calamba to Santa Cruz Laguna a little over 40 kilometers her crime was using her maiden name her quiet suffering awakened a flame in her children to fight for Filipinos made to suffer for crimes they did not commit and Injustice continued to loom over their lives yep years after Jose rizal's death the American government offered Donia teodora the return of their Calamba property and a lifetime pension as a sign of Goodwill her husband had already passed on by that time but she refused their families patriotism she said did not have a price The Matriarch set the tone for generations to come Jose rizal's eldest sister saturnina or nening was married to Manuel Hidalgo he belonged to a rich family from tanawan Batangas and he shared his in-laws indignation over many societal abuses because of Manuel hidalgo's connection to the Rizal family he was separated from his wife and children twice he was first exiled to Bohol and then mindoro this Injustice affected saturnina and her five children profoundly saturnina a successful entrepreneur wanted Filipinos who did not speak Spanish to enjoy her brother's first novel no limitangere so she became the book publisher behind its first Tagalog translation made by Pasqual poblepe saturnina's second great-grandson Jeremiah villaroman a professional photographer was in the news in 2020 for being asked to take down his social media posts critical of government before he was allowed to represent the Rizal family at an event commemorating Jose Rizal through to the Rizal family gangster tradition he declined surnames associated with saturnina's side of the family include Hidalgo ver Gonzalez Villa Roman Jose Rizal scuya pashano was a big influence on him pashano grew up witnessing abuses by Spanish Friars against Filipinos and he was a founding member of La haventud liberal the youth wing of the committee de reformadores a group that was working for reform in government and the secularization of the clergy Filipino priests Mariano Gomez Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora collectively called majoja by a few or gomburza by most were leaders of the committed reformadores pashano worked under father Burgos who was also his teacher and a friend Jose Rizal witnessed the Gumbo's execution and it became a deep core memory so much so that he dedicated his second novel El filibusterismo to their memory supported his brother Jose in his studies abroad and influenced his liberal ideas after his younger brother's execution pashano stopped speaking Spanish and only spoke Tagalog he joined the forces of General Emilio aguinaldo as a general in the Philippine revolutionary Army pashan of what Spanish and American forces until his capture in 1900. in peace time he led a quiet life of a farmer in Los Banos until his death in 1930. pashano never married and he had a natural daughter emiliana who married her first cousin Antonio Riza Lopez the son of pashano's younger sister narcisa surnames associated with pashano's side of the family include Lopez villaruz Hilario dinglasan Narcissa Rizal was the third eldest sibling of Jose Rizal she was a teacher and a musician by profession it was narcisa who looked for and found the unmarked grave of Dr Jose Rizal at the Paco Cemetery after he smarter than Antonio Rizal Lopez results nephew and godson spent time with Jose Rizal in the pitan he married his first cousin emiliana and became a nautical engineer Jose rizal's great niece was a daughter of leoncho Lopez Jose rizal's nephew she is a writer in her book Lolo Jose has won many awards over the years the book honors the legacy of Dr Jose Rizal his siblings and their ancestors Through The Eyes of the younger generations of the Rizal Clan surnames associated with narcissa's side of the family include Lopez ronquillo Garcia ulo Torres Olympia Rizal was the fourth oldest sibling of Jose Rizal she married Sylvester Ubaldo Telegraph operator from Manila she died in childbirth in 1887 and did not live to see her younger brother martyred Olympia Ubaldo Lopez Jose rizal's great niece was a respected educator at the Centro Escolar University she was the second woman to receive the Philippine Legion of Honor for her meritorious work in establishing Boys Town for vulnerable young men surnames associated with Olympia side of the family include Ubaldo tirona Lozano filar marasigan Lucia Rizal was the fifth in the family she married Mariano erbosa of Calamba when her husband died in the cholera epidemic in 1889 he was denied a Christian burial because he was the brother-in-law of Dr Jose Rizal she sent her two sons estan islao and judicio to be educated in the school Jose Rizal established in the pitan during his Exile Lucia's daughter delphina herbosa joined the Katipunan at an early age because of what happened to her father she married Jose natividad who became a general in the Philippine revolutionary Army and was exiled to Hong Kong with Emilio aguinaldo Delfina results niece her daughter lorenza results greatness and Marcela godzillo sewed by hand the first Philippine flag Teresita herbosa Jose is our second great niece served as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission while her brother Ted Jose rizal's second great nephew served as an under Secretary of Health under the second Aquino Administration surnames associated with Lucia's side of the family include herbosa and a few others Maria Rizal is the sixth child in the family it was to her whom Jose Rizal talked about wanting to marry Josephine Bracken when the majority of the Rizal family was apparently not amenable to the idea Maria's son Mauricio results nephew and his son Ismael results great nephew were both arrested and executed by the Japanese during World War II Ismael was the first husband of Carmen Guerrero the writer their daughter Gemma Cruz results second greatness was the first Filipina to win Miss International in 1964. there are photos floating online of Gemma Cruz refusing to wear a bathing suit during competitions in Long Beach in California instead she wore a barot Saya since then she flexed her intellect as a writer and a politician surnames associated with Maria's side of the family include Cruz Soledad Rizal was the youngest of results sisters and was educated as a teacher Jose rizal's letters to Soledad scolded her for marrying without the blessings of her parents the Rizal family and the family of General Miguel malvar were old friends soledad's daughter Amelia Quintero Jose rizal's niece married bernabe malvar the eldest child of General malvar surnames associated with soledad's side of the family include Quintero malvar Feria Reyes cuerva Guzman ozamis three of rizal's sisters do not have any descendants conception died as a child while josefa and Trinidad were both unmarried the two sisters were polygots meaning they spoke multiple languages very much like their older brother they were also the original custodians of the last of Jose rizal's worldly possessions the Rizal family lost several grandchildren during World War II Jose herbosa the grandson of Lucia Jose ver the grandson of saturnina and Leandro Lopez the grandson of nafsisa all fell as soldiers fighting for a country at War random trivia two Philippine presidents are connected to the Rizal family by marriage president Jose lorel is Jose rizal's brother-in-laws niece's husbandino's husband Manuel Hidalgo had a brother basilio and basilio's daughter pasensha married J.P Laurel also president Sergio osmena is Jose rizal's nephew's wife's sister's first husband ballet Olympia Sun aristeo Baldo married Leonardo limhap Leonardo's sister Esperanza limhap was the first wife of Sergio osmeña singer the heart of studying family history is not just about tracing grandparents tracing family Roots back through generations can help us connect more deeply with the generations before ours and in Remembering their struggles their victories we understand who we are and who we want to be as individuals and as a community looking at the examples of the Rizal family and others like them we learn compassion resilience and aspiration we learn compassion when we hear stories that Inspire admiration in spite of human flaws and mistakes this compassion can easily translate to our relationships with the living within our families and outside them we all face hard things remembering that fact makes us better human beings we learn resilience because family histories are typically filled with ups and downs stories of overcoming failures and surviving hard times the stories of those who came ahead assure us that we can recover Triumph and find happiness despite the hardships we learn things to Aspire for whether you come from a migrant family A working class family a family with a lot of baggage we are aware that these do not Define us but if we track a path of Excellence a noble and dignified life proud love of family and Country just like Lolo Pepe we can Inspire generations to come I am particularly thankful to the Rizal family for keeping their stories their memorabilia even their resting places accessible to the public and for staying visible in National commemorations their Lola teodora started it but the family continues to offer themselves to the nation [Music]