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    The document discusses the origins and atrocities of the Guardia Civil in the Philippines. It was modeled after the Guardia Civil in Spain but the Philippine version became infamous for abusing innocent people, looting property, and raping women. Rizal witnessed these abuses against people in Calamba and his own family. He used his writing to expose the Guardia Civil as ruthless and call for reforms to improve the organization by requiring education and moral principles for its members.

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    The document discusses the origins and atrocities of the Guardia Civil in the Philippines. It was modeled after the Guardia Civil in Spain but the Philippine version became infamous for abusing innocent people, looting property, and raping women. Rizal witnessed these abuses against people in Calamba and his own family. He used his writing to expose the Guardia Civil as ruthless and call for reforms to improve the organization by requiring education and moral principles for its members.

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    The document discusses the origins and atrocities of the Guardia Civil in the Philippines. It was modeled after the Guardia Civil in Spain but the Philippine version became infamous for abusing innocent people, looting property, and raping women. Rizal witnessed these abuses against people in Calamba and his own family. He used his writing to expose the Guardia Civil as ruthless and call for reforms to improve the organization by requiring education and moral principles for its members.

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    to Taal, Balayan and Lipa, regions cultivated entirety by

    the natives without any monkish interference whatsoever.


    The Guardia Chills The Last hated symbol of Spanish tyranny
    was the Guardia Civil (Constabulary) which was created by the
    Royal Decree of February 12, 1852, as amended by the Royal
    Decree of March 24. 1888, for the purpose of maintaining internal
    Chapter 1
    peace and order in the Philippines. It was patterned after the
    famous and well-disciplined Guardia Civil in Spain.
    Advent of A National Hero
    While is is true that the Guardia Civil in the Philippines
    Dr. Jose Rizal is a unique example of a many-splendored
    had rendered meritorious services in suppressing the bandits in
    the provinces. they later became infamous for their rampant genius who became the greatest hero of a nation. Endowed by
    abuses. such as maltreating innocent people, looting their God with versatile gifts. he truly ranked with the world's geniuses.
    carabaos, chickens, and valuable belongings, and 'raping heiplerga He was a physician (ophthalmic surgeon), poet, dramatist,
    women. Both officers (Spaniards) and men (natives) were ill- essayist, novelist, historian, architect, painter, sculptor, educator,
    trained and undisciplined, unlike the Guardia Civil in Spain who linguist, musician, naturalist. ethnologist, surveyor. engineer,
    were respected and well-liked bar, the populace. farmer businessman, economist, geographer, cartographer, bib-
    liophile, philologist, grammarian, folklorist, philosopher, trans-
    Rizal actually witnessed the atrocities committed by the lator, inventor, magician, humorist, satirist, polemicist,
    Guardia Civil on the Calamba folks. He himself and his mother sportsman,' traveler, and prophet. Above and beyond all these,
    had been victims of the brutalities of the lieutenant of the
    he was a hero and political martyr who consecrated his life for
    Guardia
    the redemption of his oppressed people. No wonder, he is now
    acclaimed as the national hero of the Philippines.
    11 was natural that Rizal directed hts stinging satire against
    The Birth of a Hero. Jose Rizal was born on the moonlit
    the hated Guardia Civil, Through Elias in Noti Me TungiTe, he
    night of Wednesday, June 19. 1861, in the lakeshore town of
    exposed the Guardia Civil as a hunch of ruthless ruffians good
    only :`tor disturbing the peace" and "persecuting honest men". Calamba, Laguna Province, Philippines. His mother almost died
    He proposed to improve - the military organization by having it during the delivery because of his big head. As he recounted
    be composed cl good men who poskessed education and `good many years later in his student memoirs: "I was born in Calamba
    principles and who were conscious of the limitations and respon- on 19th of June 1861, between eleven and midnight, a few days
    sibilities of authority and power "So much power in the hands before full moon. It was a Wednesday and my coming out in
    of men, ignorant men filled with passions. without moral training. this vale of tears would have cost my mother her life had she
    of unified principles," he said through Elias, "is a weapon in not vowed to the virgin of Antipolo to take me to her sanctuary
    the hands of a madman in a defenseless multitude:'
    by way of pilgrimage." 1
    He was baptized in the Catholic church of his town on June
    22, aged three days old, by the parish priest, Father Rufino
    Collantes, who was a Batangueno. His godfather (ninong) was
    Father Pedro Casanas, native of Calamba and close friend of
    the Rizal family. His name "Jose" was chosen by his mother
    who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St Joseph).

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