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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's relationships with several women throughout his life: 1. Segunda Katigbak was his first love as a young man, but she was engaged to someone else. 2. Leonor Rivera was his sweetheart for 11 years and influenced his writing, but her mother disapproved and arranged for her to marry someone else. 3. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey fell in love with him in Madrid and inspired one of his poems, but he did not pursue a serious relationship to remain loyal to Leonor. 4. O-Sei-San, a Japanese woman, taught him Japanese art and language in Japan, but he did not marry her

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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's relationships with several women throughout his life: 1. Segunda Katigbak was his first love as a young man, but she was engaged to someone else. 2. Leonor Rivera was his sweetheart for 11 years and influenced his writing, but her mother disapproved and arranged for her to marry someone else. 3. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey fell in love with him in Madrid and inspired one of his poems, but he did not pursue a serious relationship to remain loyal to Leonor. 4. O-Sei-San, a Japanese woman, taught him Japanese art and language in Japan, but he did not marry her

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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's relationships with several women throughout his life: 1. Segunda Katigbak was his first love as a young man, but she was engaged to someone else. 2. Leonor Rivera was his sweetheart for 11 years and influenced his writing, but her mother disapproved and arranged for her to marry someone else. 3. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey fell in love with him in Madrid and inspired one of his poems, but he did not pursue a serious relationship to remain loyal to Leonor. 4. O-Sei-San, a Japanese woman, taught him Japanese art and language in Japan, but he did not marry her

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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's relationships with several women throughout his life: 1. Segunda Katigbak was his first love as a young man, but she was engaged to someone else. 2. Leonor Rivera was his sweetheart for 11 years and influenced his writing, but her mother disapproved and arranged for her to marry someone else. 3. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey fell in love with him in Madrid and inspired one of his poems, but he did not pursue a serious relationship to remain loyal to Leonor. 4. O-Sei-San, a Japanese woman, taught him Japanese art and language in Japan, but he did not marry her

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    Segunda Katigbak was her puppy love. Unfortunately, his first love was engaged to be married to
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    -from Pagsanjan, Laguna, but according to another book, ³Jose Rizal, the Filipino Hero´ by Jose
    Ma. Hernandez, Esteban Ocampo and Zosimo Ella, she was from Sta. Cruz, Manila.Rizal met
    Valenzuela in Intramuros where her family lived in a house near the dormitory where he was
    staying.

    - 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.

    eonor Rivera #$$%c

    Leonor Rivera, his sweetheart for 11 years played the greatest influence in keeping him from
    falling in love with other women during his travel.leonora was his model for Maria Clara, one of the
    main characters in his first novel, ³Noli Me Tangere.´ He was ready to marry her. Unfortunately,
    Leonorâs mother disapproved of her daughterâs relationship with Rizal, who was then a known
    filibustero. She hid from Leonor all letters sent to her sweetheart. Leonor believing that Rizal had
    already forgotten her, sadly consented her to marry the Englishman Henry Kipping, her motherâs
    choice.Rivera was to him his ideal woman,

    Consuelo Ortiga &c#$$%

    Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the prettier of Don Pablo Ortiga¶s daughters, fell in love with him. 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 his friendship with Eduardo de Lete who was madly in love with
    Consuelo.

    O Sei San ' c#$$$c

    , a Japanese samurai¶s daughter taught Rizal the Japanese art of painting known as su-mie. She
    also helped Rizal improve his knowledge of Japanese language. If Rizal was a man without a
    patriotic mission, he would have married this lovely and intelligent woman and lived a stable and
    happy life with her in Japan because Spanish legation there offered him a lucrative job.

    ‰ertrude Beckett  

    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.
    ÿellie Boustead (c#$$$)#$$*

    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 Bousteads, 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.

    Their 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.

    Suzanne Jacoby  c#$*+

    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.

    Josephine Bracken c, c- cc c( c#$*.

    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 from Hong Kong, who came
    to Dapitan to seek Rizal for eye treatment. Rizal was physically attracted to her. His loneliness
    and boredom must have taken the measure of him and what could be a better diversion that to fall
    in love again. But the Rizal sisters suspected Josephine as an agent of the friars and they
    considered her as a threat to Rizal¶s 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 March 1895. 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 give birth prematurely to a stillborn baby, a result of some incidence, which might have
    shocked or frightened her.

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