Monuments and memorials to Jose Rizal around the world
Ramon M. Roda - 2 years ago
There is an anecdote about how, when he was a little boy, Jose Rizal was glimpsed by his sisters Olimpia, Maria and Lucia at the back of their small nipa hut in their Calamba ancestral home, busy molding some historical figures.
They “laughed and teased him about his crude work.”
“All right,” he told them, “laugh at me now, but in the future, see if people will make statues of me.”
Those words, expressed in childhood innocence, proved strangely prophetic. They are remembered these days in the run-up to Dec. 30, when the nation commemorates the 120th death anniversary and martyrdom of Rizal.
Today, we have statues and monuments of Rizal in virtually every town or city plaza around the archipelago, as well as countless monuments of stone, granite or bronze not only in the Philippines but in four continents—in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America.
Ramon M. Roda - 2 years ago
There is an anecdote about how, when he was a little boy, Jose Rizal was glimpsed by his sisters Olimpia, Maria and Lucia at the back of their small nipa hut in their Calamba ancestral home, busy molding some historical figures.
They “laughed and teased him about his crude work.”
“All right,” he told them, “laugh at me now, but in the future, see if people will make statues of me.”
Those words, expressed in childhood innocence, proved strangely prophetic. They are remembered these days in the run-up to Dec. 30, when the nation commemorates the 120th death anniversary and martyrdom of Rizal.
Today, we have statues and monuments of Rizal in virtually every town or city plaza around the archipelago, as well as countless monuments of stone, granite or bronze not only in the Philippines but in four continents—in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America.
