Rizal: Significance and Rizal Law - 50 Vocabulary Flashcards

Fifty vocabulary flashcards based on the Rizal lecture notes, covering Rizal, the Rizal Law, colonization, and Rizal’s family.

Rizal Law (R.A. 1425)

Law passed on June 12, 1956, mandating a Rizal course for graduation in all degree programs.

Rizal Course

Curriculum requirement to study Jose Rizal's life, works, and ideals in all degree programs.

Opposition groups

Organizations that opposed the Rizal Law during its passage.

Catholic Action of the Philippines

Catholic lay organization that opposed the Rizal Law.

Congregation of the Mission

Religious order that opposed the Rizal Law.

Knights of Columbus

Catholic fraternal organization that opposed the Rizal Law.

Catholic Teachers Guild

Group of Catholic educators who opposed the Rizal Law.

Veteranos de la Revolucion

Group opposing the Rizal Law; Spirit of 1996 described by some groups.

Alagad ni Rizal

Group associated with Rizal; listed among Rizal Law stakeholders.

Freemasons

Secret fraternal organization that opposed the Rizal Law.

Knights of Rizal

Organization that opposed the Rizal Law.

Archbishop Rufino Santos

Archbishop who issued a pastoral letter opposing the Rizal Law.

Pastoral letter

Official Catholic bishops’ letter addressing the Rizal Law.

Cuenco

Politician who claimed Rizal’s denial of purgatory was used against the law.

Purgatory

Catholic belief in purification after death; claimed by opponents in debates.

Ordinary and extraordinary individual

Rizal Law objective referring to the human person immortalized in memory.

Rizal’s life worth emulating

Objective urging readers to imitate Rizal’s life.

Rekindle nationalism

Objective to revive nationalist spirit among Filipino youth.

Rizal founder of Filipino nationality

Idea that Rizal was a founder of Filipino nationality.

Architect of the Filipino nation

Description of Rizal as a builder of the nation.

Sen. Jose P. Laurel

Late senator who articulated patriotic objectives of the Rizal Law.

The Philippines Before Rizal

Historical period in the Philippines preceding Rizal’s life.

Magellan

Spanish explorer who arrived in the Philippines and began European contact.

Datu Humabon

Chieftain baptized and converted to Christianity by Spaniards.

Lapu-Lapu

Datu who defeated Magellan in the Battle of Mactan.

Blood compact with Raja Sikatuna

1565 ritual treaty (Sanduguan) between Legazpi and Raja Sikatuna.

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

Spanish conquistador who established formal colonial rule in the Philippines.

1565

Year of Legazpi’s expedition and notable events including the blood compact.

Spanish rule for more than 300 years

Over three centuries of Spanish colonial governance in the Philippines.

Colonization

Process of establishing political and religious control over a territory.

Spread Christianity

Primary aim of Spanish colonization in the Philippines.

Educational system

Colonial effort to establish formal education in the Philippines.

Encomienda system

Landholding system where Spaniards controlled lands and leased to Filipinos.

Pre-Hispanic Philippines

Indigenous Filipino culture and structures before Spanish influence.

Ignorantes

Spanish term used to describe Filipinos as ignorant.

Bastos

Spanish term meaning rude or uncivilized used to demean Filipinos.

Sin verguenza

Spanish phrase meaning shameless or without modesty.

Indios

Term used by Spaniards to refer to native Filipinos.

Katipunan (KKK)

Secret revolutionary society seeking Philippine independence from Spain.

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Alonso y Realonda

Rizal’s full birth name.

June 19, 1861

Date of Rizal’s birth.

Calamba, Laguna

Rizal’s birthplace in the Philippines.

Rizal baptism

Baptized June 22, 1861; Rev. Fr. Rufino Collantes; godfather Rev. Fr. Pedro Casanas.

Dona Teodora Morales Alonzo Realonda y Quintos

Rizal’s mother; influential, cultured, disciplined, and resourceful.

Don Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado

Rizal’s father; landowner; descendant of a Chinese immigrant; called a model father.

Saturnina (Neneng)

First Rizal sister; married to Manuel Hidalgo; translated Noli Me Tangere; studied at La Concordia College.

Paciano (Ciano)

Older brother; studied at Colegio de San Jose; married Severina Decena; tuberculosis; 2 children.

Narcisa (Sisa)

Second daughter; narrator of Pepe’s poems; married to Antonio Lopez.

Olimpia (Ypia)

Sister; married to Silvestro Ubaldo.

Lucia

Sister; married to Manuel Herbosa.

Maria (Biang)

Sister; married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Binan; nicknamed Biang.