Sejarah Filipina & Jose Rizal [merged: hamizao, sLapshock]

hamizao

Some info on his burial:

Looking Back : Jose Rizal's burial instructions

First posted 00:41am (Mla time) Nov 02, 2005
By Ambeth Ocampo
Inquirer News Service

Editor's Note: Published on Page A13 of the November 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

ONE does not know when and how it came to be, but when we visit the cemeteries on Nov. 1 we are actually remembering our departed relatives and friends a day before the date designated by the Roman Catholic calendar. Nov. 1 is the Feast of All Saints and the following day, Nov. 2, is the Feast of All Souls. There seems to be a difference here that we often overlook: the former is for saints, the latter for all the dead, regardless of whether they were saints or sinners.

Whether we go on the correct day or not is beside the point. The fact that we remember the dead, at least once a year, is enough to give us some perspective and the grim realization of where we will all end up someday.

While I relish the company of relatives and the fabulous food that is often served by the graveside in Pampanga province, I can't help but wonder about the people who are not remembered, the poor souls who do not have a huge adoring clan to spruce up the grave and exchange stories on Nov. 1.

Perhaps the Feast of All Souls was set up so that we can pray for everyone, particularly those who have been forgotten. This year, I felt like bringing flowers to the Rizal monument in Manila's Rizal Park because this happens to be Jose Rizal's grave.

There is something about remembering our own departed friends and relatives that does not seem to translate to the National Hero. It has been suggested, by the superstitious, that one reason our country is in a rut is that we do not remember the Father of the Nation. By tradition, the President does this for us on Dec. 30, but lately the commemoration is held somewhere far from Rizal Park where Rizal's remains lie. The Rizal clan may be large, but since the National Hero died a childless bachelor nobody feels obliged to visit him on Nov. 1 and Dec. 30.

If we are to go by the instructions Rizal left before his death, things were quite simple and straightforward: "Bury me in the ground. Place a stone and a cross over it. My name, the date of my birth, and of my death. Nothing more. If later you wish to surround my grave with a fence, you may do so. No anniversaries. I prefer Paang Bundok."

As you can see, Rizal was true to his other name Laong Laan. This translates into "Ever Prepared," which also happens to be the Boy Scouts' motto.

Needless to say, none of Rizal's instructions was followed. He wanted to be buried in the ground, and that was what happened when they dumped his body in an unmarked grave in Paco Cemetery in Manila where he lay from 1896 to 1898, but his remains were exhumed and kept in the Rizal home in the Binondo district and later transferred to the base of the present Rizal monument.

He wanted to be buried in Paang Bundok, where the Manila North Cemetery now stands. There is a forgotten mausoleum for Rizal's parents there, probably on a lot Rizal himself picked in his lifetime, but he was buried along Roxas Boulevard.

He wanted a simple cross over his grave. Instead we have a statue of him in bronze with a granite obelisk topped with three solid gold stars that was made in Switzerland, which explains why he wears a heavy winter coat in the tropics today.

He specified a simple tombstone with his name, birthday and date of death. At least, he got this, but if you go round the monument it is littered with other texts he didn't want.

He left provisions for a fence around the grave, and he now has that. He specifically stated "no anniversaries," but every year on Dec. 30, the President of the Republic of the Philippines leads the nation in mourning and remembrance by raising a flag in front of his grave and placing a wreath on it. Now I add to that and ask that he be remembered on Nov. 1 as well.

Maybe we should give Rizal a break. Perhaps we should follow his instructions, but heck, National Heroes should be seen and not heard.

Some people don't even want to leave him in peace. Some years ago, we received a request to have Rizal's remains exhumed for scientific inquiry. A doctor wanted to conduct an autopsy that required that a hole be drilled into Rizal's skull so that mongo seeds could be poured inside. When I asked what this procedure was all about, the reply was that this would give us an idea of the volume of Rizal's cranial vault from which we could hypothesize on why he was so smart. Naturally, I refused and instead offered a photograph of Rizal's skull for study. This used to be one of the best-selling postcards before the war-a gruesome black and white photograph of "Craneo de Rizal" was something you sent to your mother on Mother's Day.

In retrospect, maybe I should have agreed because in his lifetime Dr. Rudolph Virchow of the Berlin Ethnographic Society asked to measure Rizal's skull for anthropometric reasons, but the hero refused. Anyone who watches National Geographic or the Discovery Channel today knows how much forensic doctors can see from human remains, contrary to the old saying that "dead men tell no tales."

From the photograph of Rizal's skull, my dentist concluded that Rizal needed braces. Now, that is a topic for another column or even a learned paper to be delivered to the scientific meeting of the Philippine Dental Association.

All this attention is what Rizal was afraid of and what his unheeded burial instructions sought to contain.

hamizao

Rumah dimana Rizal dilahirkan



Josefina Bracken "isteri" Rizal. Ia mengalami keguguran...jadi Rizal tiada seorang anakpun.

earthfault

Patut org Filipina respect kat Rizal ni

CRK

terdapat banyak keraguan yg rizal ni islam.
sama juga mcm panglima lapulapu yg dikatakan beragama islam.

HangPC2

Originally posted by CRK at 17-9-2006 06:13 PM
terdapat banyak keraguan yg rizal ni islam.
sama juga mcm panglima lapulapu yg dikatakan beragama islam.

lapu -lapu bukan berugama islam lah cuma orang asli jer..

DanIno

Dia ni memang genius......Kalau dia pilih untuk berniaga dah lama dia jadi billionaire terkaya pada zaman tu.

hamizao

Makasih mod bagi memudahkan rujukan:tq:

CRK

Originally posted by HangPC2 at 18-9-2006 01:25 PM


lapu -lapu bukan berugama islam lah cuma orang asli jer..

tu la pasal. dalam jejak rasul tv3 kata lapu-lapu org islam

deaf4ever

topik tu hari yang jose rizal islam ke tak dah kena merged kat sini eh?

anyway tadi aku tanya kawan aku budak filipina.
1) Jose Rizal agama apa?
2) Dia mati cammana?

so kawan aku cakap, ni apa dia tau la..

1) Jose Rizal ni Roman Catholic. Tapi lepas tu pasal tu jam Church kat filipina berpengaruh sangat dan control Filipina , so Jose Rizal ni join Freemason. Tapi still sebagai Roman Catholic.

2) Dia mati pakai firing squad. Kawan aku cakap firing squad tu terdiri dari askar Filipina, tapi belakang askar2 filipina tu ialah askar2 Sepanyol.
Kalo askar filipina tak tembak si mamat ni, dorang sendiri nanti kena tembak ngan askar sepanyol.

ni kawan aku ceta la

hamizao

Makasih deaf.....Hami nak tambah, Rizal tu kena tembak di belakang. Dikatakan dia prefer to face the sea.

HangPC2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PlmdrCIS8