Rizal cult suffers declining membership
In the early 1970s, followers of Dr. Jose Rizal trooped by the thousands to the Rizal monument at Luneta Park in Manila, where the Spanish colonial government executed him on Dec. 30, 1896.
In the early 1970s, followers of Dr. Jose Rizal trooped by the thousands to the Rizal monument at Luneta Park in Manila, where the Spanish colonial government executed him on Dec. 30, 1896.
In solemn rites, President Benigno Aquino on Sunday morning laid a wreath at the monument of Jose P. Rizal, capping the 116th anniversary of his martyrdom and centennial of the transfer of his remains from Binondo to Luneta Park.
Of the varied fare produced by this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival, it was “El Presidente,” the film depicting the life of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, that I was most eager to watch. Films about a nation’s heroes are always tricky affairs. If they show nothing new about the persons or the circumstances in which they lived, they risk becoming utterly boring. If, on the other hand, they set out to project heroes in a new light, they are likely to face the question: What is fiction and what is fact?
No monument has been built in his honor and not even a footnote mentions him in most Philippine books on martial law.
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Cadet who fell into a coma after fighting off robbers in a jeepney was awarded a bronze cross medal Wednesday.
For Master Sergeant Eleno Leopoldo, 26 years in the Philippine Army has taught him, more than anything else, to respond to the call of duty, under any circumstance.
There must have been something about Kabang, the pet dog that recently lost half her face saving the lives of two children. Until she came into their lives as a foundling puppy, the Bunggals occasionally kept dogs but only for meat.
The cousins Dina Bunggal, 11, and Princess Diansing, 3, might have been seriously injured if not dead had it not been for a dog owned by the former’s family.
Taking the lead of a global hero, the Department of Education on Saturday launched an alternative learning program that adopts 2009 CNN Hero Efren Penaflorida’s “kariton” (cart) classroom system to reach out to street children.
Andres Bonifacio, born on Nov. 30, 1863, grew up in the slums of Tondo, Manila. Named after St. Andrew the Apostle, the patron saint of Manila, the founder and organizer of the Katipunan was orphaned as a teenager and had to take care of his younger siblings. He was married twice—to Monica, a neighbor who died of leprosy, and to Gregoria de Jesus, who became Lakambini (Muse) of the Katipunan.
VINZONS, Camarines Norte—Bicol’s freedom fighter, Wenceslao Q. Vinzons, was executed by Japanese soldiers in 1942 while World War II was raging in the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, but his remains have yet to be found, according to the National Historical Institute. His youngest and only surviving daughter, Ranavalona Carolina [...]
According to a brief biography posted on the website of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Wenceslao Q. Vinzons organized the first guerrilla unit in Bicol, the Citizen’s Army, and “later his own guerrilla unit” during World War II. “Identified as one of the important enemies, the Japanese hunted him. He was captured [...]
(Editor’s Note: The following won second prize in the recently concluded Anvil-PDI Essay Writing Contest to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal. The author is a fourth-year student of the Mandaue City School for the Arts.) I wish Jose Rizal was my boyfriend. Don’t be surprised or judgmental. I have thought about [...]
