Saturnina Hidalgo

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mercado, the second or maternal family name is Realonda, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Hidalgo.
Saturnina Hidalgo
Born
Saturnina Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

(1850-06-04)June 4, 1850
Calamba, Laguna, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire
DiedSeptember 14, 1913(1913-09-14) (aged 63)
Tanauan, Batangas, Philippine Islands
NationalityFilipino
Other namesSaturnina Rizal
Saturnina Mercado
SpouseManuel T. Hidalgo
Parent(s)Francisco Rizal Mercado (father)
Teodora Alonso Realonda (mother)
RelativesJosé Rizal (brother)
Paciano Rizal (brother)
Trinidad Rizal (sister)

Saturnina Rizal Mercado de Hidalgo (June 4, 1850 – September 14, 1913;

Philippine national hero José Rizal. She was married to Manuel T. Hidalgo, a native and one of the richest persons in Tanauan, Batangas
. She was known as Neneng.

Because of her brother

Western medicine in the Philippines and healthcare consumption among wealthy Filipinas around the turn of the 20th century discussed gynecologist Felipe Zamora's diagnosis that Hidalgo possessed a "swollen, out of place, and dirty" uterus.[2]

In 1890, she initially begged her brother, José, to remedy the political situation in which her husband, whom she called Maneng, became deported to Bohol for his alliance with Rizal, a letter from later that year revealed her change of heart. When her husband was sent into exile a second time, this time to Mindoro, she assured Rizal she had refrained from crying. She wrote: "I have been inured to the pain of separation, especially when I consider that all this cruelty and misfortune will be for the good of all. My faith has become stronger because of everything you told me."[3]

Oil painting of the young Saturnina by brother José Rizal.

In 1909, Hidalgo published the first Tagalog/Filipino translation (by Pascual H. Poblete) of her brother's revolutionary novel Noli Me Tángere, thus ensuring Rizal's words became accessible, beyond elite Spanish-speaking circles, to the common Filipino.[4]

She died on September 14, 1913.

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Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Reyes, Rachel A.G. (August 1, 2017). "José Rizal and birth control". The Manila Times.
  2. S2CID 145190752
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  3. S2CID 145777012
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  4. JSTOR 42634694
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