The document discusses Rizal's relationships with various women throughout his life. It describes 12 women he was linked to romantically from 1877 to 1895, including Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera who he was engaged to, Consuelo Ortiga, Gertrude Beckett, and Josephine Bracken whom he had a child with. Many of the relationships ended due to Rizal's travels or because the women married others. The relationships provide insights into Rizal's personal life and the important women he knew.
The document discusses Rizal's relationships with various women throughout his life. It describes 12 women he was linked to romantically from 1877 to 1895, including Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera who he was engaged to, Consuelo Ortiga, Gertrude Beckett, and Josephine Bracken whom he had a child with. Many of the relationships ended due to Rizal's travels or because the women married others. The relationships provide insights into Rizal's personal life and the important women he knew.
The document discusses Rizal's relationships with various women throughout his life. It describes 12 women he was linked to romantically from 1877 to 1895, including Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera who he was engaged to, Consuelo Ortiga, Gertrude Beckett, and Josephine Bracken whom he had a child with. Many of the relationships ended due to Rizal's travels or because the women married others. The relationships provide insights into Rizal's personal life and the important women he knew.
The document discusses Rizal's relationships with various women throughout his life. It describes 12 women he was linked to romantically from 1877 to 1895, including Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera who he was engaged to, Consuelo Ortiga, Gertrude Beckett, and Josephine Bracken whom he had a child with. Many of the relationships ended due to Rizal's travels or because the women married others. The relationships provide insights into Rizal's personal life and the important women he knew.
A. SEGUNDA KATIGBAK ● Full name: Segunda Katigbak y Solis ● Nickname: Miss K ● Born: 1863 ● Died: 1943 ● Linked to Rizal in 1877 ● Rizal first met Segunda after his graduation in Ateneo because of a party in his grandmother’s house in Trozo, Manila. ● Segunda is a Batangueña. ● Rizal frequently visited La Concordia College in Paco, Manila where Miss K and his sister Olympia were studying. ● Rizal often used his sister as an excuse to visit Segunda. ● The unspoken love ended when he heard that Miss K was already engaged to her townmate Don Manuel Luz. B. MISS "L" ● She might be the daughter of his landlord, Doña Concepcion Leyva when he boarded as a sophomore medical student in UST. ● Some say she might be Vicenta Ybardo Laza, a pretty college girl from Pakil, Laguna whom he met when he went for a pilgrimage in 1881. C. LEONOR VALENZUELA ● Nickname: Orang ● Linked to Rizal in 1878 ● She was his neighbor when he boarded in the house of Doña Conception Leyva in Intramuros, Manila. ● He became a regular visitor of the Valenzuelas especially on special gatherings. ● He sent love letters to her through invisible ink. ● They continued their romance even if Rizal went to Spain through his friend, Jose Cecilio. ● Rizal seemed no to have loved Orang so much because he became Leonor Rivera’s fiancée even if he is still having an affair with Orang. D. LEONOR RIVERA ● Nickname: Taimis ● Born: 1867 ● Died: 1893 ● Linked to Rizal from 1878 to 1890 ● Rizal boarded in Casa Tomasina during his junior year as a medical student, a boarding house owned by his uncle Antonio Rivera from Camiling, Tarlac. ● It was in that house that he met his lovely cousin Leonor, his uncle’s daughter who was 13 years old at that time and studying at La Concordia College. ● Rizal stayed in the Casa that gave him the chance to know about Leonor that later on blossomed into a meaningful relationship. ● To avoid being tease by their relatives and friends, they wrote each other in code. Her codename given by Rizal is Taimis. ● When Rizal decided to study in Spain, he left Leonor without saying goodbye. ● He wrote a poem to Leonor entitled Adios Leonor or Goodbye Leonor before his departure for Europe. ● Their separation caused great sadness to the point that Leonor was always sickly. ● Upon his arrive in Spain, Rizal wrote a letter to Leonor, however, her mother Doña Silvestra, bribed the local postman to give her all of the letters Leonor mailed to Rizal and likewise, all of the letters of Rizal to Leonor. ● All the letters that she received from Rizal were kept in a box with the letters J and L embroidered until the time when mere possessions of letters from Rizal was made grounds for prosecution. She burned them all and kept the ashes. ● Leonor thinking that Rizal had forgotten her and through her mother’s manipulations, she agreed to marry an English named Charles Henry Kipping. ● In the autumn of 1890, Rizal received a letter from Leonor informing him of her upcoming wedding and asking for forgiveness. ● During her wedding, Taimis even sewed some of the ashes of the letter of Rizal into the hem of her wedding dress. ● Leonor bore a son named Carlos and died giving birth to a daughter after being married to Kipping for two years. ● As a last request, Leonor asked that she be buried in the saya she wore when she and Rizal became in a relationship and the silver box which she kept the ashes of Rizal’s burned letters be interred with her. E. CONSUELO ORTIGA ● Full name: Consuelo Ortiga y Rey ● Nickname: Señorita C.O. y R ● Linked to Rizal in 1884 ● Rizal was a regular visitor of the Ortiga family. ● Her father is Don Pablo, a Spanish liberal who once served as a city mayor of Manila. ● Rizal made a poem for her entitled A la Señorita C. O. y R. ● Rizal also gave her flowers as well as gifts. ● Rizal did not declare his love to Consuelo because of friendship and loyalty. ● Consuelo was courted by Rizal’s friend Eduardo Lete was regularly by the Paterno brothers – Maximino and Antonio. ● He was still engaged to Leonor Rivera at that time. F. USUI SEIKO ● Nickname: O-Sei-San ● Born: 1865 ● Died: 1947 ● Linked to Rizal in 1888 ● When Rizal stayed in Spanish Legation in Japan, he met there a beautiful Japanese woman which he went on asking information about her name. ● She served as Rizal’s interpreter and accompanied him on sightseeing trips around Japan. ● Their relationship did not last because Rizal went back to Europe. G. GERTRUDE BECKETT ● Nickname: Tottie/Gettie ● Born: July 18, 1863 ● Linked to Rizal in 1888 ● During his second trip to Europe, Rizal went to London to annotate de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas or Events in the Philippines. ● During that trip, he boarded in the house of the Beckett family because it was walking distance from the British Museum. ● Gertrude’s sweet smile captured Rizal’s heart. ● After his mission of annotating, he decided to leave London for Brussels. ● As a memory of their moment together, he handed a carving of the Beckett sisters to Gertrude. H. SUZANNE JACOBY THILL ● Nickname: Petite ● Born: April 4, 1872 ● Died: 1951 ● Linked to Rizal in 1889 ● When Rizal went to Brussels, he stayed in the boarding house of the Jacoby sisters – Catherina and Suzanna. ● The Jacoby sisters had a niece also named Suzanna who is often referred to as little Suzanne who became his love interest. ● His stay in Brussels was short because of the case of his father. I. NELLY BOUSTEAD ● Linked to Rizal in 1891 ● He went to Biarritz through riding in a train. ● He took a vacation owned by Eduardo Boustead, the father of Nelly. ● Rizal met Nelly and her sister Adelina through his friend Antonio Luna who was courting Nelly. ● Rizal served as a bridge between Antonio and Nelly. ● Nelly fell in love to Rizal which prompted him to challenge Luna in a duel. ● Luna apologized to Rizal and when everything turned well, Rizal began courting Nelly and asked her hand in marriage. ● Due to diverse religious convictions because Nelly was a protestant and Rizal was a Catholic, they had a hard time to come up with a decision for the wedding. ● Nelly wanted Rizal to be converted into Protestantism and she will be faithful to him. ● The mother of Nelly did not approve of him because he did not have a stable job to secure a family. ● Rizal left Biarritz and took with him his sense of pride and the memory of their unfinished relationship. J. JOSEPHINE BRACKEN ● Full name: Marie Josephine Bracken y Leopoldine ● Nickname: Miss B ● Born: August 9, 1876 ● Died: March 15, 1902 ● Linked to Rizal in 1895 ● Rizal met a pretty Irish girl named Josephine while he was living in exile in Dapitan. ● From Hong Kong, she accompanied her foster father, George Taufer, seeking cure for his blindness from Rizal. ● The two needed each other but Josephine went back to Manila after the treatment to accompany her foster father on his way back to Hong Kong. ● After six months, she returned to Dapitan that marked their days as a couple. ● There was no legal union between the two because of some reasons, so they married themselves un their own ceremony. ● Josephine got pregnant of their son. However, she suffered miscarriage that ended the life of the premature child. ● The child died after few hours of delivery. ● The child was named Francisco after Rizal’s father. ● She continuously visited him while he was detained in Fort Santiago. ● The relationship did not end but Rizal was executed during their relationship.
