The day after the March 9 incident of the Babaytan Girls, my group went to the Rizaliana Museum which was located in the University of Southern Philippines. We were scheduled for a visit in the museum. When we arrived at USP,we hard a hard time dealing with the security guards because they won’t let us in. Luckily, after the long talk with them, they let us in. We immediately went to the museum. The University of the Visayas was also having their visit in the museum. We hesitated to go inside because we were just three and they were many but we swallowed our pride and we went in with them. They were already staring at us but we did not care. We continued taking notes on what we saw. We also listened to Mr. Lucio Pulmones’ discussion. He was the museum curator and he was the one that we interviewed a week earlier before we visted the museum.
According to Mr. Pulmones, the Rizaliana Museum came to life because of clamor in 1950 for a repository for the personal belongings of the Philippines' national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. The things of Dr. Jose Rizal were brought by his sister Doña Rinidad Rizal when she visited Cebu in the year 1951. Among those things were Jose Rizal’s coat, vest, socks, and other valuables.
According to Lucio Pulmones, the museum curator, the museum is the only one in the Philippines that holds the biggest collection of Rizal's artifacts. The museum has the rare collection of the 1909 Jose Rizal postcards with excerpts from his masterpiece poem "Mi Ultimo Adios." There are fourteen postcards because there are fourteen stanzas in the poem. The museum also has the original Katipunan flag and the photographed manuscripts of Rizal's written works, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, both of which were donated by Atty. Lourdes Cabrera Tabañag.
Inside the museum, we found interesting thingsowned by our national hero. We saw the original sketck book of Rizal making Josephine as his model. We saw photos of Rizal’s foreign associates, namely, Prof. de Wrecker, Dr. T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Dr. A.B. Meyer, Luis Taviel de Andrade, Francisco Pi y Margall, Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, Dr. Rudolf Virchow, and Dr. Lorenzo Marquez. We also read Josephine’s letter to Rizal. Because it was already old, we had a hard time reading it. We also was Josephines’letters to the director of of "Oceania Española" defending Rizal from the director's unfair attack and the campaign against Rizal.
We also saw other interesting things of Rizal and that includes his report card, letter from Paez, and a statuette of him withhis dog Berganza. In a glass box, Rizal's winter vest, his high collar, his shirt cuff made of white cotton, his checkered winter coat, his blue striped cotton summer pants, a pair of his brown striped socks, his evening wear, and his undershirt aws preserved. Also housed inside the museum is an item donated by Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.
It was a replica of the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which Rizal carved while he was studying in Ateneo.
There are lots of interesting things to see in the museum and we enjoyed listening to Mr. Pulmones. We stayed longer than UV because we took notes.
According to Mr. Pulmones, the Rizaliana Museum came to life because of clamor in 1950 for a repository for the personal belongings of the Philippines' national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. The things of Dr. Jose Rizal were brought by his sister Doña Rinidad Rizal when she visited Cebu in the year 1951. Among those things were Jose Rizal’s coat, vest, socks, and other valuables.
According to Lucio Pulmones, the museum curator, the museum is the only one in the Philippines that holds the biggest collection of Rizal's artifacts. The museum has the rare collection of the 1909 Jose Rizal postcards with excerpts from his masterpiece poem "Mi Ultimo Adios." There are fourteen postcards because there are fourteen stanzas in the poem. The museum also has the original Katipunan flag and the photographed manuscripts of Rizal's written works, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, both of which were donated by Atty. Lourdes Cabrera Tabañag.
Inside the museum, we found interesting thingsowned by our national hero. We saw the original sketck book of Rizal making Josephine as his model. We saw photos of Rizal’s foreign associates, namely, Prof. de Wrecker, Dr. T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Dr. A.B. Meyer, Luis Taviel de Andrade, Francisco Pi y Margall, Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, Dr. Rudolf Virchow, and Dr. Lorenzo Marquez. We also read Josephine’s letter to Rizal. Because it was already old, we had a hard time reading it. We also was Josephines’letters to the director of of "Oceania Española" defending Rizal from the director's unfair attack and the campaign against Rizal.
We also saw other interesting things of Rizal and that includes his report card, letter from Paez, and a statuette of him withhis dog Berganza. In a glass box, Rizal's winter vest, his high collar, his shirt cuff made of white cotton, his checkered winter coat, his blue striped cotton summer pants, a pair of his brown striped socks, his evening wear, and his undershirt aws preserved. Also housed inside the museum is an item donated by Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.
It was a replica of the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which Rizal carved while he was studying in Ateneo.
There are lots of interesting things to see in the museum and we enjoyed listening to Mr. Pulmones. We stayed longer than UV because we took notes.
It is like journeying to the past.
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"The day on which you would see me in the clutches of the friars, do not waste time making petitions or uttering complaints or lamentations — it is useless. Try to put another in my place who may avenge me and make them pay dearly for my misfortune! If I would see a son of mine in the mouth of a shark, I would not try to pull him out — for it is useless and all I would achieve is to destroy him — I would kill the shark if possible, and if not, I would waylay him!"
-Dr. Jose Rizal to Mariano Ponce
Paris, 18th April 1889
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"When the people is gagged; when its dignity, honor, and all its liberties are trampled; when it no longer has any legal recourse against the tyranny of its oppressors; when its complaints, petitions, and groans are not attended to; when it is not permitted even to weep; when even the last hope is wrested from its heart; then..! then..! then..! it has left no other remedy but to take down with delirious hand from the infernal altars the BLOODY and SUICIDAL DAGGER of REVOLUTION!!!"
Dr. Jose Rizal,
To Our Dear Mother Country, Spain, 10 October 1889
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"Oh I tell you that our Catholic religion is no longer a religion of God; no I deny it. God ought not to be responsible for such a religion."
-Dr. Jose Rizal to Ferdinnand Blumentritt
Paris, 15 July 1889
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“I am readying myself for death. I am making arrangements for what I will leave behind and am preparing myself for any eventuality; Laong Laan is my real name. That is why I wish to finish the second volume of Noli at any cost and if it is possible, I do not wish to leave what I have begun without anyone to continue it…
May our compatriots there obey the voice of their heart and devote the precious time of their youth to something great, which is worthy of them. We do not have the good luck of other young men who can dispose of their time and their future.
We have upon as A DUTY; TO REDEEM OUR MOTHER FROM HER CAPTIVITY; our mother is pawned; WE MUST REDEEM HER before we amuse ourselves.”
-Dr. Jose Rizal to Marcelo H. del Pilar
Brussels, 11 June 1890
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"It is a grievous consequence of hatred of the friars that my aged mother, who was so devout and pious, now does not want to believe any more. She says that everything is deceit, the friars have neither faith nor religion. She wants to believe only in God and the Virgin Mary, and nothing more. And like my aged mother so are my sisters, and like them are many women of the Philippines. Look, Spain, look, Catholicism, at the immediate consequence of your policy."
-Dr. Jose Rizal to Ferdinand Blumentritt
Hong Kong, 31 January 1892
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“We are children, we are the latestborn. But our hearts beats high, and tomorrow we shall be full-grown men who will know how to defend their hearts and homes. We are children, yes but nothing daunts us, neither wave nor storm or thunder. With strong right arm and unclouded brow WE SHALL KNOW HOW TO FIGHT IN THE HOUR OF DANGER. Our hands shall take up in turn those instruments of sovereign reason, the SWORD the pen, the SPADE!”
Dr. Rizal's "A Talisay de Laong Laan"
Dapitan (circa 1895)
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