“Mga Pag-Ibig Ni Dr. Jose Rizal”
Research By:
Patrick Paul S. Alvarado
1. Julia Celeste Smith
Julia Celeste Smith a 16 year old
lady she is the First Girlfriend of Dr.
Jose Rizal. Rizal was only 15 when
he first saw Julia by accident in a
river named Dampalit in Los Baños
a few days after Easter in 1877. She
was wearing a red wraparound skirt.
Julia could not catch the butterfly
she was chasing. Rizal ever gallant,
caught two, Trillana wrote. Heart
beating with strange fondness, Rizal
l offered her the butterflies and she
laughed with innocent pleasure. He
was instantly attracted to her. But
for lack of subsequent contact, Rizal
eventually forgot Julia Celeste
Smith.
2. Segunda Katigbak
Segunda Katigbak is the Second
Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal. Segunda
a charming girl from Lipa, Batangas.
She was his puppy love, according
to Trillana. Unfortunately, his first
love was engaged to be married to a
town mate- Manuel Luz. After his
admiration for a short girl in the
person of Segunda.
3. Jacinta Ibardo Laza
Third Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal.
Jacinta Ibardo Laza is a lady from
Pakil, Laguna she was a teacher
and the Third Love of Dr. Jose
Rizal leaving on Nicolas Regalado
house a friend of Rizal. Rizal gave
Jacinta his full love and attention
for the reason to forget all the
heartaches that Segunda brought
him.
4. Leonor Rivera
Fourth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal. Leonor
is a tall girl from Pagsanjan. Rizal send her
love notes written in invisible ink, that
could only be deciphered over the
warmth of the lamp or candle. He visited
her on the eve of his departure to Spain
and bade her a last goodbye. Almost
simultaneously, Rizal was meeting
another Leonor. The girl, Leonor Rivera,
would be his girlfriend for the next 11
years. The two were distant cousins.
Rivera was to him his ideal woman, his
model for Maria Clara, one of the main
characters in his first novel, “Noli Me
Tangere.” He was ready to marry her.
Unfortunately, Rivera’s mother disliked
Rizal who was then earning the
reputation of being a dissident. The two
last saw each other before Rizal left for
Spain in May 1882. The mother hid from
Rivera all the letters that Rizal was
sending from Spain. After a passage of
many years, thinking that Rizal had
abandoned her, Rivera sadly consented to
marry Henry Kipping, an Englishman who
was her mother’s choice. Rizal was said to
have cried shamelessly when news of the
wedding reached him. Rivera never got to
know that Rizal loved her just as much
and that the thought of her prevented
him from having a serious relationship
with any of the women he encountered in
Europe — Ortiga, Beckette, Boustead and
Jacoby.
5. Leonor Valenzuela
Fifth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal. Several
months later, during his sophomore year
at the University of Sto. Tomas, he
boarded in the house of Doña Concha
Leyva in Intramuros. The next door
neighbors of Doña Concha were Capitan.
Juan and Capitana Sanday Valenzuea
from Pagsanjan, Laguna, who had a
charming daughter named, Leonor. Rizal,
the medical student from Calamba, was a
welcome visitor in the Valenzuela home,
where he was the life of the social parties
because of his clever sleight-of-hand
tricks. He courted Leonor Valenzuela,
who was a tall girl with a regal bearing.
He sent her love notes written in invisible
ink. The ink consisted of common table
salt and water. It left no trace on the
paper. Rizal, who knew his chemistry,
taught Orang (pet name of Leonor) the
secret of reading any note written in the
invisible ink by heating it over a candle of
lamp so that the words may appear. But,
as with Segunda, he stopped short of
proposing marriage to Orang.
6. Consuelo Ortiga Y. Rey
Sixth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal.
Consuelo Ortiga Y. Rey she is the
prettiest of Don Pablo Ortiga’s two
daughters, in Madrid. She fell in
love with him after only a few dates.
He dedicated to her “A la
Senorita C.O. y R,” which became
one of his best poems. The Ortiga's
residence in Madrid was frequented
by Rizal and his compatriots. He
probably fell in love with her and
Consuelo apparently asked him for
romantic verses. He suddenly
backed out before the relationship
turned into a serious romance,
because he wanted to remain loyal
to Leonor Rivera and he did not
want to destroy hid friendship with
Eduardo de Lete who was madly in
love with Consuelo.
7. Gertrude “Gettie” Beckett
Seventh Girlfriend of Dr. Jose
Rizal. While Rizal was in London
annotating the Sucesos de las
Islas Filipinas, he boarded in the
house of the Beckett family, within
walking distance of the British
Museum. Gertrude, a blue-eyed
and buxom girl was the oldest of
the three Beckett daughters. She
fell in love with Rizal. Tottie
helped him in his painting and
sculpture. But Rizal suddenly left
London for Paris to avoid
Gertrude, who was seriously in
love with him. Before leaving
London, he was able to finish the
group carving of the Beckett
sisters. He gave the group
carving to Gertrude as a sign of
their brief relationship
8. Nellie Boustead
Eight Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal. Rizal having
lost Leonor Rivera, entertained the thought of
courting other ladies. While a guest of the
Boustead family at their residence in the resort
city of Biarritz, he had befriended the two
pretty daughters of his host, Eduardo
Boustead. Rizal used to fence with the sisters
at the studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna,
Juan's brother and also a frequent visitor of
the Boustead's, courted Nellie but she was
deeply infatuated with Rizal. In a party held by
Filipinos in Madrid, a drunken Antonio Luna
uttered unsavory remarks against Nellie
Boustead. This prompted Rizal to challenge
Luna into a duel. Fortunately, Luna apologized
to Rizal, thus averting tragedy for the
compatriots' heir love affair unfortunately did
not end in marriage. It failed because Rizal
refused to be converted to the Protestant faith,
as Nellie demanded and Nellie's mother did
not like a physician without enough paying
clientele to be a son-in-law. The lovers,
however, parted as good friends when Rizal
left Europe.
9. Seiko “O Sei San” Usui
Nineth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal.
On his second trip to Europe in
1888,Rizal stopped by Japan where
he met Seiko Usui a lovely and
intelligent daughter of a samurai. If
all he wanted was a good life, he
would have married O Sei San and
stayed on in Japan because a
Spanish legation there was offering
him a well-paying job. But he left
Japan because he thought he was
destined for a greater task in the
Philippines and had to go home. In
a letter, he said of her: “O Sei San”,
O Sei San, sayonara. No woman,
like you, has ever loved me
10. Suzanne Jacoby
Tenth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal.
In 1890, Rizal moved to Brussels
because of the high cost of living
in Paris. In Brussels, he lived in
the boarding house of the two
Jacoby sisters. In time, they fell
deeply in love with each other.
Suzanne cried when Rizal left
Brussels and wrote him when he
was in Madrid.
11. Pastora Necessario “Torak” Carreon
Eleventh Girlfriend of Dr. Jose
Rizal. Pastoran Necessario
Carreon is a lady from Dapitan
he is Pastor on a church on
Dapitan after Suzanne Jacoby.
Rizal fell deeply in love in this girl
from Dapitan but this relationship
not last because Necessario is a
Pastora she want to gave his full
love on his church.
12. Josephine Leopaldine Bracken
Twelveth Girlfriend of Dr. Jose Rizal. in
Dapitan, Zamboanga, In early February 1895,
Rizal met an 18-year-old petite Irish girl, with
bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy
disposition. She was Josephine Bracken, the
adopted daughter of George Taufer who had
traveled to Dapitan from Hong Kong to have
his eye treated by Rizal. Rizal was immediately
attracted to Josephine. He called her “dulce
estranjera,” or sweet foreigner. The loneliness
and boredom of exile may have taken its toll as
he found himself falling in love quite easily.
However, Rizal’s sisters suspected Josephine
of being a spy for the Spanish authorities and a
threat to his security. Rizal asked Josephine to
marry him, but she was not yet ready to make
a decision due to her responsibility to the blind
Taufer. Since Taufer's blindness was
untreatable, he left for Hon Kong on
March1895. Josephine stayed with Rizal’s
family in Manila. Upon her return to Dapitan,
Rizal tried to arrange with Father Antonio
Obach for their marriage. However, the priest
wanted a retraction as a precondition before
marrying them. Rizal upon the advice of his
family and friends and with Josephine's
consent took her as his wife even without the
Church blessings. Josephine later gives birth
prematurely to a still born baby, a result of
some incidence, which might have shocked or
frightened her.