Monday, March 17, 2008
Philippine-German Relations (XXI)
It has been a couple of days ago, since you were able to read Part XX of my serial. I was surprised to get some emails asking me if “that’s it?” Of course - NOT!
Let me go back to the Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal:
In Jaegerstrasse 71 in Berlin Rizal found a cheaper hotel. He occupied one of the rooms on the 4th floor. This is a historically siginificant place, for in this house Rizal wrote the final portion of his novel, NOLI ME TANGERE. Besides, he also wrote here the preface which was datelined Berlin 1886. It was also here that Rizal wrote fifteen interesting letters to Ferdinand Blumentritt aside from the letters he sent to his friends and relatives at home. I always remember this while staying in Manila and passing by the LTO-station “Blumentritt”… .
From these letters we know much of Rizal’s activities in Berlin, the city, where I also loved to stay almost 25 years before moving to the Philippines
Rizal, for instance, translated Blumentritt’s important article in the “Ethnography of the Island Mindanao” in only three days.
In Berlin, Rizal planned to translate the “Travels of Jagor” in Tagalog
Once again I like to thank my mentor Monsignore Professor Dr. Dr. Hermogenes E. Bacareza for providing me with all these details.
(To be continued!)
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# 1 Steven Perron said:
Jose P. Rizal was a great man that lived in very hard times, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, so I would just like to mention that a lot of his life and thinking was greatly influenced by his association with the Masonic Fraternity.
Dimasalang: The Masonic Life of Dr. Jose Rizal
By Raymond S. Fajardo, 33º
Edited by Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr., 33º
A majority of the Filipino patriots who led their countrymen in their struggle for emancipation against Spain in the last two decades of the nineteenth century were members of the Masonic fraternity. Among all of them, however, only one deserved to be called an international mason - Jose P. Rizal. Only he joined lodges in several countries and practiced the rites of various Masonic Grand Jurisdictions. [He received] Masonic degrees from lodges in Spain, Germany, France, and possibly England; he attended lodge meetings in Hong Kong and was the first to be elected Honorary Venerable Master of a lodge in the Philippines. Furthermore, he was the only Filipino designated as the Grand Representative of a Spanish Grand Orient to the Grand Orient of France and the lodges in Germany.
# 2 Klaus said:
Hi Steven Perron, thank you very much indeed for your valuable comment. Yes, Rizal was really a great man and many times more then a national hero…
I also learned about the influences by his association with the Masonic Fraternity. Thank you again for sharing this information with all of us, Steven…