deCembeR 19, 2015 hawaii filipino ChRoniCle 1
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DECEMBER 19, 2015
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By Serafin Colmenares, Jr., Ph.D. ecember 30, 2015 marks the 119th anniversary of the execution of the Philippines’ national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal. Rizal’s death anniversary brings to mind the bitter-sweet story of a young man whose life held so much promise but was cut short by the forces of a corrupt and tyrannical regime. Dr. Rizal was born on June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna. Although his family was well-to-do, they suffered discrimination because both parents were locally-born. Rizal studied at the Ateneo and then at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He went to Europe and pursued medical studies at the University of Madrid and at the University of Heidelberg. In 1886, Rizal published his first novel, Noli Me Tangere, which pointed out the evils of Spanish rule and frailocracy in the Philippines and which earned him the ire of the Spanish authorities when he returned to the Philippines in 1887. He went back to Spain where he wrote his second novel, El Filibusterismo (1891), a sequel to the Noli. He returned to Manila in 1892
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