WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF RIZAL

“O Sei San, sayonara, sayonara! …. No woman like you has ever loved me. … Like the flower of the chodji that falls from the stem whole and fresh without stripping leaves or withering... you have not lost your purity nor have the delicate petals of your innocence faded--sayonara, sayonara.

… I have thought of you and that image lives in my memory. … I'll always think of you—When shall I return to that divine afternoon … your name lives in the sighs of my lips and your image accompanies and animates my thoughts. … When will the sweet hours I passed with you return? When will I find them sweeter, more tranquil, more pleasing … its freshness, its elegance …? Sayonara, sayonara.”

This statue depicts Rizal's last goodbye to Josephine before he was executed.

This is a statue of Rizal and Bracken in Luneta Park depicting their last goodbye before his execution.

A Contemporary Pastime

• A blue-eyed and buxom girl
• The oldest of the three Beckett daughters.
• Rizal boarded the house of the Beckett Family.

Naughty Boy

• Rizal boarded with Suzanne and her aunts during his stay in Brussels.
• There was a letter signed by a Suzanne J. Thill saying, “I wear out the soles of my shoes going to the mailbox waiting for a letter from you. Why don't you write, you naughty boy? ”

The Madrid Flirt

• Consuelo Ortiga Y Rey
• A la Senorita C.O. y R
• Daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey, the former city mayor of Manila.

CONSUELO ORTEGA

Rizal's farewell gift to Josephine

Rizal gave her a copy of Imitacion de Cristo

GERTRUDE BECKETT

Miss L

• Professor of Jose Rizal from Pakil Laguna.

• Rizal describe her a fair with seductive and attractive eyes.

Jacinta Ibardo Laza

SUZANNE JACOBY THILL

The One

• Rizal was already 34 when he first met Josephine.
• She accompanied her stepfather, George Tauffer of Hong Kong, who sought Rizal’s expertise as an eye doctor in Dapitan.
• Dulce Extranjera or sweet foreigner.
• They had a son named Francisco but the baby born prematurely and eventually died after a few hours.

Rich Heiress

• A Filipina whose father (Filipino-Anglo French) Edward Boustead owned a villa in Biarritz.
• Antonio Luna who is a friend of Rizal also courted Nellie but she is infatuated with Rizal

Antonio Luna vs Jose Rizal

At a party, Luna got drunk and later insulted Nellie which later caused Rizal to challenge him to a duel in fencing.

NELLIE BOUSTEAD

Puppy Love

Segunda Katigbak was Rizal's first love. He met her when he once visited his maternal grandmother in Batangas. He described her as a lady with "eloquent eyes, rosy cheeks, and smile that reveals very beautiful teeth"

SEGUNDA KATIGBAK

JOSEPHINE BRACKEN

Doomed Love

LEONOR RIVERA

• She was engaged with Rizal.
• She was also her cousin because she was the daughter of his uncle Antonio Rivera.
• Rizal describe her as tender as a budding flower with kindly, wistful eyes.

The Japanese Girl

• Seiko "O Sei San" Usui
• A lovely and intelligent daughter of a samurai.
• "You have the color of Camelia, its freshness, its elegance" - Rizal

Imagined Love

• She was also known as "Orang".
• Daughter of Capitan Juan and Capitana Sanday Valenzuela
• Rizal send her letters with invisible ink and taught her how to read it.

Leonora Valenzuela

First Girl

Julia was 16 years old and Rizal was 15 when he first met her accidentantly in a river named Dampalit in Los Baños a few days after Easter in 1877.

Julia Celeste Smith

O SEI SAN

WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF RIZAL