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“The Girlfriends Of Dr. Jose Rizal” The Copyright And Information That Is Given To Me For My Research And Report Belong To Dr. Jose Rizal National Library Located At Ateneo De Manila. The Picture Of The Girlfriend Of Dr. Jose Rizal Was Taken Is From The Newspaper Section Of The Library (Inquirer: News Article Page 3 Titled The 12 Girlfriend Of Dr. Jose Rizal. Patrick Paul S. Alvarado Researcher And Reporter. Sir. Raymond Edisun Mindanao Professor In Rizal

1. Julia Celeste Smith Julia is a sixteen year old lady she was the first girlfriend of Rizal. Rizal was checking their tree yard of atis, balimbing, macopa, santol, and tampoy this tree yard end to the river side or river shore and Rizal was only 15 when he first saw Julia by accident in a river named Dampalit in Los Baños a few days after Easter in 1877. She was wearing a red wraparound skirt. Julia could not catch the butterfly she was chasing. Rizal ever gallant, caught two, Trillana wrote. Heart beating with strange fondness, Rizal offered her the butterflies and she laughed with innocent pleasure. He was instantly attracted to her. But for lack of subsequent , Rizal eventually forgot Julia Celeste Smith.

2. Segunda Katigbak Segunda is a pretty fourteen year old lady Bataqueña from Lipa was the second girlfriend of Rizal. She was rather short, with eyes that were eloquent, ardent at times, languid at others, rosy – cheeked, with an enchanting and provocative smile that revealed very beautiful teeth, and the air of a sylph; her entire self diffused a mysterious charm. One Sunday Rizal visited his maternal grandmother who lived in Trozo, Manila. He was accompanied by his friend Mariano Katigbak. His old grandmother was friend of the Katigbak Family from Lipa. When he reached his grandmother’s house, he saw other guest. One of whom was an attractive girl, who was mysteriously caused his heart to palpitate with strange ecstasy. She was the sister of his friend Mariano, and her name was Segunda. Rizal came to know Segunda more intimate during his weekly visits at La Concordia College, where his sister Olimpia was a boarding student. Olimpia was a friend of Segunda. It was apparent that Rizal and Segunda loved each other. Their was indeed “Love At First Sight.” But It was hopeless since the very beginning because Segunda was engaged to Manuel Luz.

3. Jacinta Ibardo Laza Jacinta is a professor from Pakil Laguna the third girlfriend of Rizal. Rizal shortly after losing Segunda Katigbak, he paid court to a young woman in Pakil, Laguna. Rizal called Jacinta Ibardo Laza Miss L. Rizal describe Miss L. a fair with seductive and attractive eyes. After visiting her in her house several times for a tutor lesson in the subject Rhetoric and Poetry, he suddenly stopped his wooming, and the romance died a natural death. Rizal gave reason why the romance with Miss L. died because 1. the sweet memory of Segunda was still in his heart, and 2. his father objected to the romance with Miss L. because she is the professor of Rizal.

4. Leonor “Orang” Valenzuela Leonor Valenzuela the fourth girlfriend of Rizal. Several months after during Rizal sophomore year at the University Of Santo Tomas, he boarded in the house of Doña Concha Leyva in Intramuros. The next door neighbors of Doña Concha were Capitan Juan and Capitana Sanday Valenzuela, parents of a charming girl named Leonor. Rizal a medical student from Calamba, was a welcomed visitor in the Valenzuela home, where he was the life of the social parties because of his clever sleight of hand tricks. He courted Leonor Valenzuela, who was a tall girl. Almost as tall as Jose himself, and had a regal bearing. He sent her love notes written in invisible ink. This ink consisted of common table salt and water. It left no trace on the paper. Rizal , who knew his chemistry, taught Orang (pet name of Leonor Valenzuela) the secret of reading any note written in the invisible ink by heating it over a candle or lamp so that the letter may appear. But as with Segunda, he stopped short of proposing marriage to Orang.

5. Leonor “Luntian” Rivera Leonor Rivera the fifth girlfriend of Rizal. Rizal next romance, which modern writers have glamorized, was with another Leonor. – Leonor Rivera (Luntian pet name Leonor Rivera) his cousin from Camiling. In 1879, at the start of his junior year at the university, he lived in “Casa Tomasina” a boarding house managed by his Uncle, Antonio Rivera, at No. 6 Calle Santo Tomas, Intramuros. His land lord Uncle has a pretty daughter, Leonor, a student at La Concordia College, where Soledad(Rizal’s youngest sister) was then studying. Leonor, born in Camiling, Tarlac, On April 11, 1867, was a frail, beautiful girl, tender as a budding flower with kindly wistful eyes. Between Jose and Leonor sprang a tenderly beautiful romance. They became engaged. In her letters to Rizal, Leonor signed her name as “Luntian” in order to camouflage their intimate relationship from their parents and friends.

6. Consuelo Ortiga Y. Rey Consuelo the sixth girlfriend of Rizal. Consuelo Ortiga Y. Rey she is the prettiest of Don Pablo Ortiga’s two daughters, in Madrid. She fell in love with him after only a few dates. He dedicated to her “A la Senorita C.O. y R,” which became one of his best poems. The Ortiga's residence in Madrid was frequented by Rizal and his compatriots. He probably fell in love with her and Consuelo apparently asked him for romantic verses. He suddenly backed out before the relationship turned into a serious romance, because he wanted to remain loyal to Leonor Rivera and he did not want to destroy hid friendship with Eduardo de Lete who was madly in love with Consuelo

7. Gertrude “Gettie” Beckette Gertrude the seventh girlfriend of Rizal. While Rizal was in London annotating the Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, he boarded in the house of the Beckett family, within walking distance of the British Museum. Gertrude, a blue-eyed and buxom girl was the oldest of the three Beckett daughters. She fell in love with Rizal. Tottie helped him in his painting and sculpture. But Rizal suddenly left London for Paris to avoid Gertrude, who was seriously in love with him. Before leaving London, he was able to finish the group carving of the Beckett sisters. He gave the group carving to Gertrude as a sign of their brief relationship.

8. Nellie Boustead Nellie the eight girlfriend of Rizal. Rizal having lost Leonor Rivera, entertained the thought of courting other ladies. While a guest of the Boustead family at their residence in the resort city of Biarritz, he had befriended the two pretty daughters of his host, Eduardo Boustead. Rizal used to fence with the sisters at the studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna, Juan's brother and also a frequent visitor of the Boustead's, courted Nellie but she was deeply infatuated with Rizal. In a party held by Filipinos in Madrid, a drunken Antonio Luna uttered unsavory remarks against Nellie Boustead. This prompted Rizal to challenge Luna into a duel. Fortunately, Luna apologized to Rizal, thus averting tragedy for the compatriots' heir love affair unfortunately did not end in marriage. It failed because Rizal refused to be converted to the Protestant faith, as Nellie demanded and Nellie's mother did not like a physician without enough paying clientele to be a son-in-law. The lovers, however, parted as good friends when Rizal left Europe.

9. Seiko “O Sei San” Usui Seiko the nineth girlfriend of Rizal. On his second trip to Europe in 1888,Rizal stopped by Japan where he met Seiko Usui a lovely and intelligent daughter of a samurai. If all he wanted was a good life, he would have married O Sei San and stayed on in Japan because a Spanish legation there was offering him a wellpaying job. But he left Japan because he thought he was destined for a greater task in the Philippines and had to go home. In a letter, he said of her: “O Sei San”, O Sei San, sayonara. No woman, like you, has ever loved me

10. Suzanne Jacoby

Suzanne the tenth girlfriend of Rizal. In 1890, Rizal moved to Brussels because of the high cost of living in Paris. In Brussels, he lived in the boarding house of the two Jacoby sisters. In time, they fell deeply in love with each other. Suzanne cried when Rizal left Brussels and wrote him when he was in Madrid.

11. Pastora Necessario Carreon

Pastora Necessario the eleventh girlfriend of Rizal. Pastoran Necessario Carreon is a lady from Dapitan he is Pastor on a church on Dapitan after Suzanne Jacoby. Rizal fell deeply in love in this girl from Dapitan but this relationship not last because Necessario is a Pastora she want to gave his full love on his church.

12. Josephine Leopaldine Bracken Josephine the twelveth girlfriend of Rizal. In Dapitan, Zamboanga, In early February 1895, Rizal met an 18-year-old petite Irish girl, with bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy disposition. She was Josephine Bracken, the adopted daughter of George Taufer who had traveled to Dapitan from Hong Kong to have his eye treated by Rizal. Rizal was immediately attracted to Josephine. He called her “dulce estranjera,” or sweet foreigner. The loneliness and boredom of exile may have taken its toll as he found himself falling in love quite easily. However, Rizal’s sisters suspected Josephine of being a spy for the Spanish authorities and a threat to his security. Rizal asked Josephine to marry him, but she was not yet ready to make a decision due to her responsibility to the blind Taufer. Since Taufer's blindness was untreatable, he left for Hon Kong on March1895. Josephine stayed with Rizal’s family in Manila. Upon her return to Dapitan, Rizal tried to arrange with Father Antonio Obach for their marriage. However, the priest wanted a retraction as a precondition before marrying them. Rizal upon the advice of his family and friends and with Josephine's consent took her as his wife even without the Church blessings. Josephine later gives birth prematurely to a still born baby, a result of some incidence, which might have shocked or frightened her.