1912 Transfer of Rizal's Mortal Remains

"In 1912, the foundations were laid for a monument at the Luneta that
would also serve as the final tomb for the hero's mortal remains. On
December 29, 1912, the urn containing the remains was borne in solemn
procession from the family's house to the Ayuntamiento, that fine
Marble Hall that had been a symbol of Spanish sovereignty in the
Philippines. In the salon of the Ayuntamiento, the urn was
enshrined on a magnificent catafalque surrounded by innumerable
floral wreaths, offerings of the nation. Throughout that night, the
Knights of Rizal and other patriotic groups as well as the public
kept vigil round the catafalque.

"Next morning, December 30, 1912 -- sixteenth anniversary of the
martyrdom -- the urn was borne to the Luneta on an artillery caisson
drawn by six horses. Thousands joined the procession and thousands
more lined the streets. At the Luneta, the obsequies were led by
acting Governor-General Newton W. Gilbert and the two ranking
statesmen of the Philippine Assembly, Sergio Osmefia and Mariano
Ponce, the latter one of Rizal's dearest friends. Then the urn was
deposited in the center of the base over which would rise the
monument.

"On the committee in charge of the monument project were Paciano
Rizal and several Rizal colleagues, like Tomas del Rosario, Maximino
Paterno, Ariston Bautista, Juan Terason, Pascual Poblete, Mariano
Limjap, Teodoro R.Yangco and Ramon Genato. The monument they
accomplished has become a national landmark, the most visible tribute
of the nation to its greatest son.”

 -- Asuncion Lopez Bantug.
LOLO JOSE. AN INTIMATE AND ILLUSTRATED PORTRAIT OF JOSE RIZAL

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KNIGHTS OF RIZAL OPENS RIZAL MONTH 2012

Order of the Knights of Rizal

Chartered under Republic Act No. 646

International Headquarters

3^rd Floor Knights of Rizal Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

NumberManila, Philippines

Telelephone Numbers: (02) 528-1974/ 521-0141

MEDIA ADVISORY 
For more information, please contact: 
SIR MARK ROY BOADO
0917.570.3394
markroyboado@yahoo.com                                                                                       

 

KNIGHTS OF RIZAL OPENS RIZAL MONTH 2012

The Order of the Knights of Rizal, in accordance with Republic Act 646, is mandated to organize programs to commemorate Jose Rizal’s life, works and martyrdom.

WHAT:           Rizal Month 2012 Kickoff and Blogger’s Day

When:           December 1, 2012 (Saturday), 4:00 p.m.

Where:         International Headquarters of the Order of the Knights of Rizal, Port Area, Manila

Who:      Hon. Ludovico D. Badoy, Executive Director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines will be the keynote speaker. Other invited guests are Gen. Paciano Rizal’s grandson Mr. Jose Rizal Lopez, representatives from the National Youth Commission and the Commission on Elections, IdeaSpace of Smart Communications, Inc.,

Under Presidential Proclamation No. 126 issued in 2003, the month of December is declared as Dr. Jose P. Rizal Month. The month-long celebration seeks to promote among Filipino youth the visions and ideals of Dr. Jose Rizal, encouraging them to look up to the National Hero as their role model.

To formally open the Rizal Month 2012, a Blogger’s Day shall be held for bloggers, students and media outfits.

The Knights of Rizal, under the able leadership of its Supreme Commander Sir Reghis M. Romero II has also programmed various activities spread throughout the month of December and would be announced during the Blogger’s Day:

1.  50th national Rizal Youth Leadership Institute (December 13-16, 2012)

2. Search for the Ten Jose Rizal Model Students of the Philippines 

3. Re-enactment of the Transfer of Jose Rizal’s Urn (December 30, 2012)

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KNIGHTS OF RIZAL GOES ONLINE

PRESS RELEASE

KNIGHTS OF RIZAL GOES ONLINE

On the eve of the celebration of the 151^st birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, the Order of the Knights of Rizal (KOR) will hold “Asalto Para Kay Pepe” at 6:00 PM, June 18 at Sunset  Room of the Manila Yacht Club.  The occasion will also serve as a launchpad for KOR’s #justlikeRizal project, an innovative promotional campaign using the social media.

Invited to the event are patriotic bloggers, prominent twitter followers, facebook users, members of the press, KOR members and its counterpart organizations.

Through this undertaking, KOR embraces social media as a new platform to promote Rizalian ideals and teachings and thus reach a wider audience coverage especially among the Filipino youth whom our national hero refers to as the “hope of the motherland.”

The event is supported and will be attended by Hon. Ludovico Badoy, Executive Director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Hon. Percival Cendana, Commissioner of the National Youth Commission (NYC), DOH Undersecretary Hon. Teodoro Herbosa, a descendant of our national hero and officers and members of the KOR.

“We are embarking on this innovative approach to actualize the purposes required by Republic Act No. 646 for the KOR to perform” KOR Supreme Commander Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR said. He added that the “Knights of Rizal has to catch the attention of the youth to inculcate in them the values and virtues that our national hero imparted to Filipinos in his lifetime and in all his works; this is why we are tapping the social media like facebook, twitter, youtube and the like”.

#justlikeRizal project is part of the line-up of programs and projects of the KOR  Rizalian Year 2012-2014 under the theme,  “Buhayin si Rizal sa Bawat Pilipino”.

Other institutional programs like Rizal is Alive Forum, Rizal National Festival of Excellence and National Rizal Youth Leadership Institute will also be presented in the launch. This initiative is made possible under the abled leadership of Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR in cooperation with the KOR Sucesos Chapter composed of historians.

                 The Order of the Knights of Rizal is an international fraternal organization chartered under Republic Act No. 646.  Its objectives are to study the teachings of Dr. Jose Rizal, to inculcate and propagate them in and among all classes of the Filipino people, and by words and deeds to exhort our citizenry to emulate and practice the examples and teachings of our national hero, to promote among the associated Knights the spirit of patriotism and Rizalian chivalry, to develop a perfect union among the Filipinos in revering the memory of Dr. Jose Rizal, and, to organize and hold programs commemorative of Rizal's nativity and martyrdom. Through the years, the Order has been an effective partner of the government in disseminating Rizal’s life and ideals.

Reference:     

Contact Number/s:

Sir Mark Roy Boado

09175703394

Sir Jonathan Balsamo

09062020274

Sir Xiao Chua

09176117507

Sir Emmanuel de Guia

09174059191

Project uses Facebook to teach about Rizal

Campus Beat

Project uses Facebook to teach about Rizal

April 8, 2011, 9:01am

MANILA, Philippines — The Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies of Holy Angel University and BINHI English Literacy Foundation, Inc. recently launched a project on Facebook as part of the sesquicentennial anniversary of Jose Rizal’s birth.

The project, called “Rizal 150 to 150: A 15—Day Countdown to Rizal’s 150th Birth Anniversary,” is designed to entice the Filipino youth to get reacquainted with the national hero by posting daily Rizal quotations on Facebook. The quotations are set against the backdrop of various Rizal monuments all over the archipelago.

Ian Christopher Alfonso, researcher at the Center for Kapampangan Studies, manages the project. “One challenge is to find 150 Rizal sayings,” Alfonso says. “Another is to collect photos of Rizal statues, busts and murals all over the country.”

The project was spearheaded by Lisa Tinio-Bayot, head of the BINHI Foundation and grand niece of Rizal through Saturnina Rizal-Hidalgo. The campaign drew positive responses from Facebook fans as well as scholars and historians.

Dr. Vicente Villan of the UP Diliman History Department called it unique and worthy to be converted into a coffee-table book. Also giving their full support to the project are Michael Charleston Chua, Philippine Historical Association (PHA) vice president and DLSU history professor; Dr. Celestina Boncan, former president of PHA; Jonathan Capulas Balsamo, PHA press relations officer and PUP history professor; and Dr. Zeus Salazar, former chair of the UP Diliman History Department.

Those who have photographs of any public statue of Rizal in schools, municipal halls, and parks are encouraged to submit them for posting in the “Rizal 150 to 150” campaign. Email them to ianalfonso7@gmail.com or personally submit a copy at the Center for Kapampangan Studies for scanning.

Those who want to receive a daily dose of Rizal quote and picture, go to the “Rizal 150 to 150” fan page on Facebook and simply click “Like.”

Historians to update PHL historical records at UST confab

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JANUARY 12, 2012

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Historians to update PHL historical records at UST confab

MANILA, Jan. 12 – Hundreds of historians nationwide will converge at the Philippine Historical Association (PHA) General Assembly and Elections for the Board of Governors for 2012 at University of Santo Tomas (UST) campus, Sampaloc, Manila, on Jan. 29, 2012, from 8 a.m to 11:30 a.m.

PHA public relations officer Jonathan Balsamo, during the Talking Points radio program aired Thursday over People’s Television-4 and Radyo ng Bayan stations nationwide, said that the association would gather about 300 members, mostly history teachers and professional historians, who are dedicated in strengthening the Filipino identity by providing “meaningful” records and studies of the past.

The PHA is a professional association of historians countrywide, which was founded in 1955 by noted historians such as Encarnacion Alzona, Gabriel Fabella, Gregorio Zaide, Nicolas Zafra, Celedonio Resurreccion, Teodoro Agoncilllo and Esteban de Ocampo.

The PHA is also affiliated with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC).

Talking Points is also produced by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) and Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). (PNA) RMA/JCA

SINO ANG CHUMORVA KAY MAGELLAN?

SINO ANG CHUMORVA KAY MAGELLAN?


By Stanley Palisada

“Sino ang CHUMORVA kay Magellan?” asks University of Asia and the Pacific History professor Alvin Campomanes. History teachers these days go to lengths (and even gimmickry) to make history appealing to students whose interest span is as short as a soap bubble’s life.

“And then my students laugh and I get their attention. I do it not because I just want to make it funny but that way naka-connect ako sa estudyante,”  justifies Campomanes.

By the way the answer to the question would be Lapu-Lapu, not the fish. Who  is  Lapu-Lapu  is another story buried in  the mythical yesteryears of this country where the rest of our history and heroes lie in state. Revisiting dates, places and names is not the coolest thing when you’re a teenager oozing with hormones and  trapped in a 1 p.m. History class under a teacher whose previous career was reading the “Cenaculo.”
The way history is generally taught in schools has led (partly) to the untimely demise of interest in History itself. An insipid teaching style and poor retention of students are the outlying reasons why interest in history is history.

A recent survey on heroes that we conducted drew a handful of the most far-fetched historical tidbits from today’s youth. A respondent said (very confidently) that Andres Bonifacio led flag-raising and Independence Day ceremonies in Cavite, an ignorant credit grab from Emilio Aguinaldo who was the one who held the flag and not the bolo.

Another respondent said Emilio Aguinaldo is “ang taong nasa pera” and that’s as far as he knows in spite of his being a college freshman and having survived his elementary and high school history classes.

A Philippine historian, Michael Xiao Chua explains that confusion results when kids are taught to memorize historical facts alone.  History is not a “fill in the blanks,  fill up the calendar”  undertaking.  Like Journalism it’s equally important to know the “hows and the whys”, aside from the whos, whats, wheres, and whens. The hows and whys provide meaning to events.

“Ang History ay salaysay na may saysay,” says 24-year old Chua who is also the vice president of the Philippine Historical Association in spite of  his youth. “Nire-remind tayo ng ating common experiences para magkaisa ang Pilipino.  Mayroon tayong common na karanasan, kolonyalismo, sama-sama tayong naghirap sa digmaan,” Chua said.

But lackluster teaching to an uninspired student is not to blame entirely. It is also pitiable that preoccupation with survival and the rush to overcome poverty make many see history a whim fit only for those who have spare time or resources.

According to Philippine historian, Celestina Boncan PhD, Filipinos can be on the road to greatness if they know their journey. “It’s as if history is an intangible that  cannot  fill up the stomach or cannot wipe hunger. But learning or understanding history is the spirit that would drive our people to become great,” Boncan said.
It’s been a while since we allowed our heroes to inspire us to love our country the way they did. We hailed them during the 2000 Centennial Celebrations but forgot all about them after the party.
And how can we love a country we don’t know?

“Ang isang mamahalin mo, kikilalanin mo muna. Hindi mo pwedeng mahalin ang isang bagay na di mo alam, na di mo kilala,” explained another Philippine historian Jonathan Balsamo.

Lastly, History is learning the past, and learning from the past.

Why do we as a country, stay trapped in a cycle of poverty, corruption, and bad governance? Why do we keep missing the lessons of the years that came and went?

It’s because in our journey, we Filipinos are engrossed with today and the future, that we don’t look back. In so doing, we’re merely walking in circles.*

from: http://batangeneo.tumblr.com/post/6654884031/sino-ang-chumorva-kay-magellan#disqus_thread

BLOGGERS' NIGHT FOR JOSE RIZAL

The Order of the Knights of Rizal would like to request your kind presence on the occasion of the 151st Birth Anniversary celebration of Dr. Jose P. Rizal on 18th June 2012, 6:00 pm at the International Headquarters of the Order of the Knights of Rizal.


The "Asalto Para kay Pepe" is our way of sharing with our Social Media friends the Life and Works of Dr. Jose Rizal as we launch the "Buhayin si Rizal sa Bawat Pilipino" program of the Knights of Rizal and to commemorate the culmination of the Sesquicentennial Celebration for Rizal.


Come and Join the Knights on a night filled with stories, music, food, ceremonies and camaraderie as we collectively relive his ideals and dreams in our own lives.


Thank you very much.


Non Omnis Moriar


Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR
Acting Supreme Commander

MGA KUMPERENSIYA SA KASAYSAYAN SA TAONG 2012

IKA-10NG PAMBANSANG BAKAS SEMINAR-WORKSHOP SA HISTORIOGRAPIYA AT AGHAM PANLIPUNAN

Tema: “Kasaysayan ng Kapilipinuhan: Bagong Balangkas”

Petsa: Abril 18-21, 2012

Venue: Joy Center, Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati

Inorganisa ng:

Bagong Kasaysayan, Inc.

PO Box 366, UP Campus, Diliman, Lunsod Quezon, Pilipinas

Unit 2, No. 35A Escaler St., Loyola Heights, Lunsod Quezon, Pilipinas

Telefax 927-2396 E-mail: carmen_penalosa@yahoo.com

Registration fee: Php3,600.00 for April 18-21, 2012; inclusive of the kit, field trip fee, lunch and am & pm snacks for 4 days, and certificates of participation and attendance.

Accommodations are free courtesy of Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati. Delegates however must provide for their own beddings and must register with Mr. Reuben “Bong” Calabio (09212898681; reubencalabio@yahoo.com) no later than 3 days before the event. Upon arrival at the venue, delegates must present their school ID and a copy of this letter to the person-in-charge.

Because slots for the field trip are limited, delegates are advised to preregister. For preregistration, payments may be deposited at BPI Loyola Katipunan Branch Peso Savings Account: Bagong Kasaysayan (BAKAS), Inc. with Acct No. 003081-1164-22. After payment, please fax a copy of the deposit slip with the name/s of attending delegate/s to (632) 927-2396. For walk-in delegates, payment may be done in cash or check payable to Bagong Kasaysayan (BAKAS), Inc. If you are sending walk-in delegates, please inform us by filling up and emailing to us the reply slip which may be downloaded from our website; or you may inform us via SMS or text.

The DepEd advisory, Ched memo, program, location map, reply slip and other details may be accessed and downloaded through our websites http://bagongkasaysayan.multiply.com & http://bagongkasaysayan.org/ and our Facebook accounts: bagongkasaysayaninc & Bagong Kasaysayan (BAKAS) Inc.

2012 PAMBANSANG KUMPERENSIYA SA HISTORIOGRAPIYANG PILIPINO

Petsa: April 26-28, 2012

Venue: UP-Baguio Auditorium, Baguio City

Mga Layunin:

1. gather the historians, researchers, social studies and history teachers to discuss the traditional and new sources of historical research, as well as the conditions and challenges of research sources at the national and local levels;

2. help the researchers in identifying and analyzing the various sources for history, both documentary and non-documentary, in order to facilitate the research process and production; and

3. familiarize social studies and history teachers and history graduate students with the various sources available which can be utilized in the research and teaching of Philippines History and Society.

Registration Fee: (PhP2,500.00) to cover expenses for conference kit, lunch and snacks for three (3) days.

Inorganisa ng:UP Diliman Department of History

Kontakin si: Dr. Bernadette Abrera, Conference Convenor at the Department of History, UP-Diliman, Quezon City, Faculty Center Room 2035 or may contact her at any of these telephone nos.: (02) 981-8500 local 2126; (02) 434-4021 and (02) 924-2966.

SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS CONGRESS

Petsa: May 7-9, 2012

Venue: To be announced later

Tema:

Mga Layunin:

1. discuss the K to 12 Curriculum for Araling Panlipunan; and

2. form a national association for the Basic Education Social Studies teachers.

Inorganisa ng: National Historical Commission of the Philippines

Kontakin si: Ms. Carminda R. Arevalo, Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Research, Publications and Heraldry Division, NHCP at telephone no.: (02) 523-1037; fax no.: (02) 536-3181 or through mobile phone no.: 0917-589-2307.

Registration fee: (PhP2,000.00) inclusive of kits, lunch and snacks.