GEd 104 Module 4: Jose Rizal's Romances

Segunda Katigbak

Rizal's first love (1877), a student at La Concordia College and sister of his close friend Mariano, who gave him a symbolic white paper flower.

La Concordia College

The educational institution where Rizal's sister Olympia and his first love, Segunda Katigbak, studied.

Manuel Luz

The man from Lipa, Batangas, to whom Segunda Katigbak was formally engaged, cutting short her infatuation with Rizal.

Memorias de Un Estudiante de Manila

Rizal's personal diary where he documented and sketched his intense infatuation for Segunda Katigbak in Chapter 6.

Jacinta Ibarda Laza

Rizal's second love (1877/1878) from Pakil, Laguna, nicknamed "Miss L" or "The Professor," who functioned directly as his tutor.

Leonor Valenzuela

Rizal's third love (1878) nicknamed "Orang," an immediate neighbor in Intramuros to whom he sent love letters written in invisible ink.

Leonor Rivera

Rizal's fourth love and validated childhood sweetheart, secretly engaged to him in 1880 under the protective code name "Taimis".

Taimis

The protective code name used by Jose Rizal and Leonor Rivera to keep their secret 1880 engagement hidden from onlookers.

Henry Charles Kipping

The English railway engineer whom Leonor Rivera's mother forced her to marry after intercepting Rizal's letters.

Consuelo Ortiga Y Perez

Rizal's fifth love (1884), daughter of a former mayor of Manila, to whom he dedicated the poem A La Señorita C.O. y R.

Eduardo de Lete

Rizal's fellow reformer and friend whose expressed romantic interest in Consuelo caused Rizal to deliberately withdraw.

O Sei-San

Seiko Usui, a 23-year-old Japanese woman fluent in English and French who shared a month-long Tokyo romance with Rizal in 1888.

Gertrude Beckett

Rizal's seventh love (1889) nicknamed "Gettie" or "Pettie," a London landlord's daughter who developed a massive crush on him.

Suzanne Jacoby

Rizal's eighth love (1889/1890), a Belgian woman from Brussels who kept a box of chocolates from him completely unopened as a memento.

Nellie Boustead

Rizal's ninth love (1891), a half-Filipina woman whose marriage proposal collapsed because she demanded his conversion to Protestantism.

Villa Eliada

The Boustead family's winter residence on the scenic French Riviera in Biarritz where Rizal stayed in February 1891.

Josephine Bracken

An Irish woman born in Hong Kong who became Rizal's common-law wife in Dapitan, immortalized as his "dulce extranjera".

George Taufer

The blind adoptive father of Josephine Bracken who traveled to the remote penal colony of Dapitan seeking clinical treatment from Rizal.

Barangay Talisay

The specific location in Dapitan where Jose Rizal and Josephine Bracken lived openly as man and wife.

Francisco

The son of Jose Rizal and Josephine Bracken who was unfortunately stillborn, passing away only a few hours after a premature birth.

Vicente Abad

The man whom Josephine Bracken married in 1900 following Rizal's execution.