Noli Me Tángere is an 1887 novel by José Rizal during the colonization of the Philippines by the Spanish Empire, to describe perceived inequities of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ruling government.
Pasig, officially the City of Pasig, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 755,300 people.
Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 450,741 people.
Antipolo, officially the City of Antipolo, is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 776,386 people. It is the most populous city in the Calabarzon region, and the eighth most-populous city in the Philippines.
Cainta, officially the Municipality of Cainta, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 322,128 people.
Biñan, officially the City of Biñan, is a 1st class component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 333,028 people.
Noveleta, officially the Municipality of Noveleta, formerly known as Tierra Alta during the Spanish colonial era, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 45,846 people.
Hagonoy, officially the Municipality of Hagonoy, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 129,807 people.
The Philippine Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in the Philippines, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual direction of the Pope and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. The Philippines is one of the two nations in Asia having a substantial portion of the population professing the Catholic faith, along with East Timor, and has the third largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil and Mexico. The episcopal conference responsible in governing the faith is the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga-Soriano, better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipina singer, television host, actress, producer, vlogger, and entrepreneur.
Miriam College is a non-stock, non-profit Filipino Catholic educational institution for girls and young women in Quezon City, Philippines.
Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken was the common-law wife of Philippine national hero José Rizal during his exile in Dapitan in the province of Zamboanga del Norte in the southern Philippines. In the early morning hours of December 30, 1896, the day of his execution by firing squad, the couple were married in Fort Santiago, the place of his incarceration, following his reconciliation with the Catholic Church. The marriage is disputed by some sectors because no records were found regarding the union, discounting the unusual events of that day, even if it was attested by Bracken herself and the officiating priest.
Marilou Díaz-Abaya was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was the founder and president of the Marilou Díaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.
Assumption College San Lorenzo, formerly known as the Assumption Convent, is a private, Roman Catholic school exclusively for girls located in San Lorenzo Village, Makati, Philippines established in 1958. Assumption San Lorenzo is the successor of the Assumption Convent along Herran Street, Ermita, Manila. It provides education from pre-school, elementary, secondary, tertiary, to graduate level. The alumnae and present students of this school include daughters and granddaughters of Presidents, industrialists, politicians, actors/actresses and prominent figures in the Philippines.
María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo y Pidal was a Filipino nun and the founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
Rosita dela Vega whose real name was Rosario, was born in 1925 and was known as the Queen of the Philippine Novelty Songs of the 50s, which was considered as the golden era of Philippine recording and airwaves.
She sued the school system and banned schools and was the hero.
Leonor Rivera–Kipping was the childhood sweetheart, and “lover by correspondence” of Philippine national hero José Rizal. Rivera was the “greatest influence” in preventing Rizal from falling in love with other women while Rizal was traveling outside the Philippines. Rivera's romantic relationship with Rizal lasted for eight years. She was immortalized by Rizal as the character María Clara in the Spanish-language novel Noli Me Tangere. Her original hometown is in Camiling, Tarlac.
Joanne Geraldine O. Lorenzana, known professionally as JoAnne Lorenzana, is a Filipina recording and performing artist, songwriter and former model, best known as an exponent of Original Pilipino Music in the mid-1980s to the 1990s.
Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos was a wealthy woman in the Spanish colonial Philippines. She was best known as the mother of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal. Realonda was born in Santa Cruz, Manila. She was also known for being a disciplinarian and hard-working mother. Her medical condition inspired Rizal to take up medicine.
