Philperiodicals

José Rizal - his last hours

The Young Citizen was an illustrated monthly magazine for first, second, and third-grade students. Most of its content was related to the education of the young Filipinos in civil virtues. It included sections on the learning of English, natural sciences, literature, and history, in addition to poems and short stories for children. Accordingly, The Young Citizen published biographies of “Our heroes” from the long Philippine Revolution, which were to serve as models for the youth “growing” into independent citizens of an independent sovereign nation. In 1935, directly after the Tydings-McDuffie Law of 24 March 1934, The Young Citizen would focus on figures such as José Burgos, Teodora Alonzo, Leon María Guerrero, and especially José Rizal, who were considered pacifists. In December, The Young Citizen published an article on Rizal’s last hours by Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970), a Christian Evangelical missionary, who praised Rizal's courage and civic virtues, but especially the fact he was “a convinced pacifist” who died for the terrible truth of having learned “what he could do for his helpless oppressed country”, quoting Wenceslao Retana to distance Rizal from the Katipunan and the accusations of treason to Spain and to “his own country”.

Fuente

Laubach, Frank C.. “José Rizal - His last hours”, The Young Citizen, vol. 1, nº 10, December 1935, pp. 311, 321.  In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Ileto, Reynaldo C. 1999. "The Philippine-American War: Friendship and Forgetting", in Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial dream, (Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, eds.). New York: New York University Press: 3-21.
Quibuyen, Floro. “Rizal and Filipino Nationalism: Critical Issues.” Philippine Studies 50, no. 2 (2002): 193–229. 
Schumacher, John N. 2000. "Review of Rizal and Filipino Nationalism: A New Approach, by Floro C. Quibuyen", Philippine Studies 48, num. 4: 549–71. 
Rafael, Vicente. 1999. "Parricides, bastards and counterrevolution: reflections on the Philippine Centennial", in Vestiges of War: the Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream (Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, eds.). New York: New York University Press: 361-375.

Autoría

Frank C. Laubach

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Fecha

1935-12

Materia

Anniversaries

Children magazines

José Rizal

Malolos congress

Malolos constitution

Philippine Revolution