Tag: #Reflection on Rizal Day: Raising generation of heroes

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    Reflection on Rizal Day: Raising generation of heroes

    Jose Rizal was born with a head too large for his body that his mother, Teodora Alonso, could have died giving birth to him. In Rizal in Saga, a biography that has been reissued early this month just in time for Rizal Day, his biographer, National Artist Nick Joaquin, wrote of Doña Teodora’s ordeal as a long day of sweating and straining, “a long, hard agonizing that could have cost her life.”