favorite Filipino Hero

                                                    Dr. Jose Rizal

December 26, 1896, after a trial, Rizal was sentenced to die, he was convicted of rebellion, sedition, and of forming illegal association. On the eve of his execution while confined in Fort Santiago, Rizal wrote a poem Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell) and hid it inside the gas burner and gave the gas burner to his sister Trinidad and his wife Josephine.

He was executed on December 30, 1896 at the age of 35 by a firing squad at Bagumbayan, now known as Luneta Park in Manila.

Jose Rizal was a man of many accomplishments - a linguist, a novelist, a poet, a scientist, a doctor, a painter, an educator, a reformer and a visionary, he left his people his greatest patriotic poem, Mi Ultimo Adios to serve as an inspiration for the next generations.

                 My Favorite Hero is Dr. Jose Rizal. Other than being a national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal was really a genius writer. He may not have the strength to fight for our country, but his powerful mind was enough to do so. 

I chose Rizal, for he has his peaceful Propaganda and diplomatic approaches in attaining Philippine Freedom and independence, unlike Bonifacio who chose a Bloody Revolution.

Dr. Jose Rizal made 2 books, the Noli Me Tangere  and the El Filibusterismo. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a fictional novel written by José Rizal, during the colonization of the country by Spain to expose the inequities of the Spanish Catholic priests and the ruling government.

El Filibusterismo (lit. Spanish for "The Filibustering"), also known by its English alternative title The Reign of Greed, is the second fictional novelwritten by Philippine national hero Jose Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli Me tangere and, like the first book, was written in Spanish. It was first published in 1891 in Ghent

 Those books really help the Filipinos to gain or to attain the Philippine Freedom and Independence that the Filipino wants. Without any Bloody fight, Jose Rizal really did something for the Filipino freedom, that's why I acknowledge him as my hero.