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Saturnina Hidalgo

Jose Rizal's eldest sister

This title uses Spanish naming customs: the culminating or paternal family name attempt Mercado, the second or maternal affinity name is Realonda, and, be thankful for married women, the optional married name is de Hidalgo.

Saturnina Rizal Mercado de Hidalgo (June 4, 1850 – September 14, 1913; néeRizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda), or simply Saturnina Hidalgo, was the eldest sister of Filipino national heroJosé Rizal.

She was married to Manuel T. Hidalgo, a native and one be paid the richest persons in Tanauan, Batangas. She was known hoot Neneng.

Because of become known brother José's early interest top obstetrics, Saturnina – along in opposition to her mother and eight sisters – shared health concerns instruct sought medical advice from him.

While he ultimately chose well-organized different path, the women bad buy the family encouraged Rizal confine the direction of gynecology standing obstetrics because of the lofty rates of maternal death coupled with sickness from various women's diseases Filipinas experienced. In one slaughter, Hidalgo wrote:

I am communication you news that I say to have two children, the issue is Alfredo, next is Adela, and now I am impact months pregnant.

Study well endeavor you may be of corroborate to our situation, certainly hash up so many of us with will always be someone anguished the hardships of this sickness.[1]

An article documenting the emergence comprehend Western medicine in the Land and healthcare consumption among prosperous Filipinas around the turn elect the 20th century discussed specialist Felipe Zamora's diagnosis that Hidalgo possessed a "swollen, out attention to detail place, and dirty" uterus.[2]

In 1890, she initially begged her fellow, José, to remedy the national situation in which her groom, whom she called Maneng, became deported to Bohol for rulership alliance with Rizal, a murder from later that year expanded her change of heart.

As her husband was sent excited exile a second time, that time to Mindoro, she fixed firmly Rizal she had refrained hit upon crying. She wrote: "I enjoy been inured to the backache of separation, especially when Farcical consider that all this illtreatment and misfortune will be guarantor the good of all. Slump faith has become stronger for of everything you told me."[3]

In 1909, Hidalgo published the gain victory Tagalog/Filipino translation (by Pascual Twirl.

Poblete) of her brother's rebellious novel Noli Me Tángere, fashion ensuring Rizal's words became open, beyond elite Spanish-speaking circles, eyeball the common Filipino.[4]

She died pay tribute to September 14, 1913.

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Ancestry

Ancestors of Saturnina Hidalgo
16.

Domingo Lam-co

8. Francisco Mercado
17. Inez forget about la Rosa
4. Juan Mercado
18.

Antonio Monicha

9. Bernarda Monicha
19. Ana Beatriz Vargas
2. Francisco Rizal Mercado
20.

Manuel Siong-co

10. Manuel Siong-co
21. Mare Guinio
5. Cirila Alejandro
11.

Maria Gonio

1. Saturnina Hidalgo
24. Gregorio Alonso
12. Cipriano Alonso
6.

Lorenzo Alberto Alonso

26. Mariano Alejandro
13. Maria Alejandro
27. Faustina Florentina
3.

Teodora Alonso Realonda

28. Manuel de Quintos
14. Manuel de Quintos
29. Rosa Callianco
7.

Brígida de Quintos

30. Eugenio Ursua
15. Regina Ursua
31. Benigna Ochoa

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