Who Made Rizal Our Foremost National Hero, and Why

Who Made Rizal Our Foremost National Hero, and Why? BY: ESTEBAN A. DE OCAMPO Dr. Jose Rizal Mercado y Alonso, or simply Jose Rizal (1861-1896), is unquestionably the greatest hero martyr of our nation. The day of his birth the day of his execution are fittingly commemorated by all classes of our people throughout the length breadth of this country even by Filipinos their friends abroad. His name is a byword in every Filipino home while his picture adorns the postage stamp paper money of widest circulation. No other Filipino hero can surpass Rizal in the number of towns, barrios, streets named after him; in the number of educational institutions, societies, trade names that bear his name; in the number of persons, both†¦show more content†¦Your work has exceeded my hopes I consider myself happy to have been honored by your friendship. Not only I, but also your country, may feel happy for having in you a patriotic loyal son. If you continue so, you will be to your people one of those great men who will exercise a determinative influence over the progress of their spiritual life. (4) If Rizal’s friends admirers praised w/ justifiable pride the Noli its author, his enemies were equally loud bitter in attacking condemning the same. Perhaps no other work has, up to this day, aroused as much acrimonious debate not only among our people but also among reactionary foreigners as the Noli of Rizal. In the Philippines the hero’s novel was attacked condemned by a faculty committee of a Manila university (UST) by the permanent censorship commission in 1887. the committee said that it found the book heretical, impious, scandalous to the religious order, unpatriotic subversive to the public order, libelous to the govt. of Spain to its political policies in these islands, while theShow MoreRelatedWhy Is Rizal Our National Hero2163 Words   |  9 Pagesto ourselves as Filipinos to revisit the writings of Dr. Rizal and try to gain an understanding of his ideals and hope for the Philippines. Dr. Rizal is a great gift of God to us, if we are to see it in a Christian perspective. But Dr. Rizal may be like a precious gift left unopened in the closet of our lackadaisical minds. Participating in the events being held this year is a good way to open our hearts and minds to the dreams of Rizal for a progressive and enlightened Filipino nation. 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