Rizal romance o sei san biography
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Rizal In Japan and Romance with O-sei-san
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Rizal in Focus
Rizal, the Romantic
There were at least nine women linked with Rizal; namely Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckette, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby and Josephine Bracken. These women might have been beguiled by his intelligence, charm and wit.
Segunda Katigbak and Leonor Valenzuela
Segunda Katigbak was her puppy love. Unfortunately, his first love was engagerad to be married to a town mate- Manuel Luz. After his admiration for a short girl in the person of Segunda, then came Leonor Valenzuela, 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.
Leonor Rivera
Leonor Rivera, his sweetheart for 11 years played the greatest influence in keeping him from falling in love with other women during his travel. Unfortunately, Leono
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(she died on May 1, at the age of 80)
Rizal had a Japanese girlfriend osei-san.
Howerver the romance wasnt meant to be.
Heartbroken Rizal wrote the following about about o sei san.
Every student in the Philippines can name all or a few of the women of Rizal, but when pushed a bit further he will admit that he knows little about the person. These women only figure in our history because of their association with Rizal. Surely, they were not mere footnotes in the life of our national hero, but had lives of their own. What were they like before or after their relationship with Rizal? When and where were they born? What happened to them after Rizals execution? When and where did they die?
One of the tips passed by the late Esteban de Ocampo and E. Arsenio Manuel is to work in cemeteries in search of tombstones with dates of birth and death. Josephine Bracken was buried in Happy Valley Cemetery in Hong Kong, but nobody has been able to find he