Dr Jose P Rizal: Man for All Seasons on his 161st birth anniversary, June 19, 2022

                   Dr Jose P Rizal: Man for All Seasons

Dedicated to the Philippines' National Hero, born on June 19, 1861.  His martyrdom on December 30, 1896 ignited the Philippine Revolution against Spain.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Rizal is not only a foremost nationalist, but a naturalist as well. He probed his being an ecologist, a term coined only in recent times, when he was exiled in Dapitan, an extreme rural place near Ozamis today. Here he founded a village school for children, introduced new methods of farming, planted trees, discovered new organisms, four of them were named in his honor.

Rizal: boy and man

Here are sketches and portraits of Rizal discovered from very old files. On display at the author's residence in  San Vicente Ilocos Sur - Heritage Zone of the North (RA 11645)

Artist's interpretation on Rizal on his way to execution at Bagumbayan. Note lively gait and stride, and apparently jovial conversation with the escorting military officer. It was reported

by an attending doctor that Rizal's pulse rate was normal even as he faced the firing squad.

Artist Cabrera's study: head profile of Rizal

Rizal as a student in Europe; most popular portrait in official documents and books; Rizal, had he reached 90. ~

Acknowledgment: Mr. Philip Cabrera, son of the artist; and National Historical Institute.