LOVE OF

HIS LIFE
 OBJECTIVES:
• to identify the lovers of Jose
Rizal;
• to examine the life of Rizal
through his relationships
with different women; and
• to appreciate and get to
know Rizal as a lover.
CHARADE: 123
ACTION
 CHARADE:
WORDS
EASY AVERAGE DIFFICULT
HANDKERCHIEF ASHES INVISIBLE INK
LETTER JAPANESSE PROTESTANT
CANDLE WEDDING SINGING VOICE
SLIPPER GOWN SPY
FENCING BOARDING WEALTHY FAMILY
LAMP HOUSE BLUE EYES
NEIGHBOR
 SEGUNDA
• Rizal’s ‘puppy love’.
KATIGBAK
• Segunda was just 14 years old when
she met Rizal who was then 16.
• Segunda was also a close friend of
Rizal's sister, Olympia.
• However, Segunda was already
engaged to Manuel Luz, who lived in
her town, and Rizal had to stop
pursuing her.
 LEONOR
VALENZUELA
• Leonor "Orang" Valenzuela, Rizal's
second object of affection.
• Rizal met her when he was a
sophomore medical student at the
University of Santo Tomas.
• literally the girl-next-door.
• Rizal pursued her by sending love
letters with invisible ink that one can
only read when it is heated over a
candle or lamp.
 LEONOR RIVERA
• They met when he was 18 and she
was 13.
• Rizal felt in love with her singing
voice.
• Rivera’s parents vehemently
disapproved of their relationship as
they were wary of Rizal being a
“filibuster”.
• Rivera was Rizal’s second cousin.
 LEONOR RIVERA
• She wrote a letter to Rizal saying that
she was already engaged to Henry
Kipping, a British engineer.
• Some accounts claim that she burned
Rizal’s letters to her, but she kept the
ashes in the hem of her wedding gown.
• Rizal immortalized Rivera through Maria
Clara’s character in “Noli Me Tangere”.
• Rivera was Rizal’s “the one that got
away”.
 CONSUELO ORTIGA
YMadrid,
• In REYRizal, age 23, courted
Consuelo Ortiga, age 18.
• the daughter of Pablo Ortiga y Rey,
who was once mayor of Manila and
who owned the apartment where the
Circulo Hispano Filipino met regularly.
• Rizal gave Rey gifts: sinamay cloth,
embroidered piña handkerchiefs,
slippers – all ordered through his
sisters in Calamba.
 SEIKO USUI
• affectionately called O-Sei-San.
• Rizal met her when the he was still
working at the Spanish legislation in
Tokyo.
• fluent in English and French.
• In many accounts, it was written that
Rizal almost moved to Japan
permanently to spend his remaining
days with O-Sei-San.
 GERTRUDE
BECKETT
• Rizal, who was then 27, went to
London and met a woman named
Gertrude Beckett.
• She even assisted Rizal as he finished
some of his famous sculptures.
• the feelings Beckett had for Rizal were
not reciprocated, Rizal left London and
left her a composite carving of the
heads of the Beckett sisters.
• Beckett was friend-zoned by Rizal.
 SUZANNE JACOBY
• When he arrived in Belgium in 1890, he lived
at a boarding house that was run by two
sisters whose last name was Jacoby.
• In his six-month stay in Brussels, Rizal and
Jacoby had a transitory romance.
• Many historians believed that the affair was
one-sided, as evident in the letters sent by
Jacoby to Rizal.
• In 1891, Rizal went back to Belgium – not for
Jacoby – but to finish writing “El
Filibusterismo”.
 NELLIE BOUSTEAD
• Rizal and Boustead met in Biarritz, where the latter’s
wealthy family hosted his stay at their residence on
the French Riviera.
• Before Biarritz, Rizal already made friends with the
Boustead family a few years back, and even played
fencing with Nellie and her sister.
• Boustead, who was classy, educated, cheerful, and
athletic.
• Although they seemed like the ideal couple,
marriage for Rizal was still not meant to be.
• Boustead demanded Rizal to convert to the
Protestant faith but he refused.
 JOSEPHINE
• During Rizal’s exile in Dapitan, he met the
BRACKEN
18-year-old Bracken whom he described as
“slender with blue eyes”.
• She was the adopted daughter of one
George Taufer, whom she lived with in
Hongkong for years before she needed to
seek help from an ophthalmologist due to
George's blindness.
• The relationship between the two blossomed
quickly but one of Rizal’s sisters suspected
that Bracken was a spy of the Spaniards.
 JOSEPHINE
• They had a stillborn son who was named,
BRACKEN
Francisco in honor of Rizal’s late father.
• No priest would marry the two because of
Rizal's status in politics.
• Without a legal paper, Rizal and Josephine
lived together, and had a son, who died a
few hours after birth. Rizal named his son
after his father, Francisco.
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