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Sep 19, 2019 · JOSE RIZAL – Here is the story of Jose Rizal and Segunda Katigbak as to how they met and how they unfortunately did not ended up together. Segunda Katigbak is a girl from a wealthy clan in Lipa who at young age was sent by her parents to La Concordia.
She was Jose Rizal’s “puppy love” and with her the hero was believed to have had “love at first sight”. Rizal was 16 years old when one Sunday in 1887 he paid visit to his maternal grandmother in Trozo, Manila and there met, among others, Segunda Katigbak, a two-year-younger-than-him ‘colegiala’.
- “Virginal, Attractive, and Engaging”
- Just A “Mutual Understanding”
- Two-Timing Two Leonors
These were the three words Rizal used to describe the 14-year-old Katigbak in his diary. “She is not the most beautiful womanI had ever seen,” writes Rizal somewhat harshly, “but I blushed every time she looked at me,” he concedes. “I have not met anyone more alluring and beguiling.” Just like in his correspondence with other women, Rizal used a co...
Despite the many times they rendezvoused, Rizal and Katigbak never became official, writes Ocampo. Rizal suspected the latter was already engaged, which was a mistake. He decided to stay away from Katigbak and made excuses for himself. In his youth, Rizal was also naïve about the qualities of real love, equating it with physical attractiveness and ...
A funny twist in the love life of the national hero was unearthed in the correspondence between Rizal and his wingman, Jose M. Cecilio. While Rizal was away in Europe, Cecilio met up with Rizal’s various love interests and spied on them for him. In 1884, writes Ocampo, when Rizal was already engaged to his most serious lover, Leonor Rivera, Cecilio...
Jan 16, 2022 · The love-smitten adolescent Rizal greatly detailed his blossoming young romance with the 14-year-old Segunda Solis Katigbak, whom he addressed as “ la Señorita K .”, in Chapter 6 of his Memorias de un Estudiante de Manila (Memoirs of a Student in Manila).
Jun 19, 2013 · Rizal’s supposed first love, Segunda Katigbak, was but a harmless flirtation between a 14-year-old convent-bred girl and a teen-aged Rizal. Segunda was already betrothed to a Manuel Luz of Lipa, Batangas, when they met.
Generation 1. 1. Segunda Katigbak, daughter of Norberto Katigbak Sr. and Justa Solis, was born in 1863 in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. She died on 16 Jan 1943 in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. She met Jose Rizal. He was born on 19 Jun 1861 in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. He died on 30 Dec 1896 in Manila, Philippines. She married Manuel Luz Sr.
Jun 19, 2018 · We know Jose Rizal as a national hero, but once upon a time, he was also a teenager whose heart was broken by his first love. At 16, Rizal crossed paths with Segunda Katigbak, a sister of his friend. She was just 14 when she first met him in Trozo, Manila.
