José Rizal
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered to be a n
Rizal c. 1890s
Francisco Rizal Mercado (1818–1898)
Teodora Alonso Realonda (1827–1911)
Rizal, 11 years old, a student at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila
Josephine Bracken
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Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken was the common-law wife of Filipino nationalist José Rizal during his exile in Dapitan. Hours before Rizal's execution on December 30, 1896, the couple were allegedl
José Rizal
…Spanish authorities for alleged possession of a seditious document, being banished to Dapitan in the island of Mindanao. During his exile, Rizal met Josephine Bracken, an Irish woman who later became his common-law wife. After four years in exile, Rizal left Dapitan for Cuba in August 1896 with the permission of…
A studio portrait of Bracken in Filipino attire, 1896
A copy of Bracken's baptismal certificate
The title page of a Spanish edition of the Imitation of Christ that was Rizal's wedding and parting gift to his wife. His dedication is written in English.