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Do you find Dr. Rizal the most special hero in Philippines history?

• Just a thought, and curious about why do people here asked too much about Rizal that the last one is asking his paternal/maternal side of the family. You ask student in college now or even in my own time about the subject they have Rizal:works & life probably tells you it is just a waste of their time taking the subject. What do we need to know about Rizal anyway? How many heroes do we have in the time of Rizal alone, probably 36 or more. From Paterno, Jacinto,Mabini,Bonifacio,gom-bur-za, aguinaldo,etc the list is too long to write. And yet people are still asking Rizal contribution to the revolution. Never heard of Bonfiacio or Emilio Jacinto or Miguel Malvar etc? What is so special about Rizal to this young people? To me he is just an instrument to bring down the rule of Spain in the Philippines. Nothing special about him. Rizal for one belong to the elitista or the elite or the rich group during his time is it not? How do you explain his frequent travel from the Philippines to Madrid, Paris, and Hamburg in Germany then? Funds from the revolution? Hardly there are money to begin with because the people do not know that a group like them exist in the Philippines is this not right also? Mahiwaga nga ang buhay ni Rizal kung tutuusin. Is he trading opium poppies from the Chinese to fund the revolution? Just a thought. IN OVER ALL we never run out of heroes, right now we have one in the person of Penaflorida who won the CNN hero of the year award by pushing cart of books and school supplies to street children in Cavite to teach them how to read and write. We are the new heroes why do we have to look back through 100 years for? We are the country that never run out of heroes because we do not have short supply of it. OFW are the new heroes is it not? Yet when they go home they are so disoriented or go home to the Philippines in a box with no help from the government. It is so annoying that young adults still look at Rizal once again for guidance. I don't think Americans still cling to George Washington and trying to know him better. Is Rizal special? What do you think?

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  No. Here they are my Heroes and a Neighbors Little is known of Francisco Dagohoy's parentage, or his early life.[2] The only information known is that his real name was Francisco Sendrijas and that he was a native of Inabanga, Bohol. He was also a cabeza de barangay, or one of the barangay captains of the town.[3] Historians believe that his alias, Dagohoy, was derived from a belief that he possessed an amulet (“agimat” in Tagalog and “dagon” in the Cebuano) that protected him from his enemies.[4] The people believed that he possessed the charm of a gentle wind (“hoyohoy” in Cebuano), that allowed him to jump from one hill to another and from one side of the river to the other.[4] He was believed to have a clear vision inside dark caves and could turn invisible at will. The Dagohoy surname was derived from his alias “Dagon sa hoyohoy.” [4] According to a local historian, Jes Tirol, the name Dagohoy is a concatenation of the Visayan phrase dagon sa hoyohoy meaning talisman of the breeze.[5] Dagohoy rebellion was not a religious conflict. Rather, it was like most of the early revolts which were ignited by forced labor (polo y servicios), Spanish oppression, vandala, excessive tax collection and payment of tributes.[7] On top of these injustices of the Jesuit priests, what triggered Dagohoy most was the refusal of the Jesuit priest to give a Christian burial to his brother who died in service while chasing a fugitive who went against Christianity. This caused Dagohoy to call upon his fellow Boholanos to raise arms against the oppressors. The rebellion outlasted several Spanish Governors-General and several missions.[7] In 1744, Gaspar Morales, the Jesuit curate of Inabanga, ordered Francisco's brother, Sagarino, who was a constable, to capture an apostate fugitive. Sagarino pursued the fugitive, but the latter resisted and killed him. Morales refused to give him a Christian burial because he had died in a duel, a practice banned by the Church. Infuriated, Francisco instigated the people to rise in arms. The signal of the uprising was the killing of Giuseppe Lamberti, Italian Jesuit curate of Jagna on January 24, 1744. The rebellion rolled over the whole island like a typhoon; Morales was slain by Dagohoy afterwards. Bishop Miguel Lino de Espeleta of Cebu, who exercised ecclesiastical authority over Bohol, tried vainly to mollify the rebellious Boholanos. Dagohoy defeated the Spanish forces sent against him. He established a free government in the mountains, and had 3,000 followers, which subsequently increased to 20,000. His followers remained unsubdued in their mountains stronghold and, even after Dagohoy's death, continued to defy Spanish power. The Francisco Dagohoy Cave in Danao was the headquarters of Dagohoy. One of the many crystal-studded passages within Dagohoy's cave has an underwater route leading to dry land, and it is said that every time Spaniards would search the cave, Dagohoy would swim underwater through this passage to hide in the breathing space.[8] Twenty Spanish governors-general, from Gasper de la Torre (1739–45) to Juan Antonio Martinez (1822–25), tried to quell the rebellion and failed. In 1825, General Mariano Ricafort (1825–30), a kind and able administrator, became governor-general of the Philippines. Upon his order, Alcalde-mayor Jose Lazaro Cairo, at the head of 2,200 Filipino-Spanish troops and several batteries, invaded Bohol on May 7, 1827. The Boholanos resisted fiercely. Cairo won several engagements, but failed to crush the rebellion. In April 1828, another Spanish expedition under Captain Manuel Sanz landed in Bohol. After more than a year of hard campaign, he finally subdued the patriots. By August 31, 1829, the rebellion had ceased. In a chivalric move, Governor Ricafort pardoned 19,420 survivors and permitted them to live in new villages at the lowlands. These villages are now the towns of Batuan, Cabulao, Catigbian, and Bilar. --------------------------------------… Lapu-Lapu (1491–1542) was the datu of Mactan, an island in the Visayas in the Philippines, who is known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization. He is now regarded as the first Filipino hero.[1][2] On the morning of April 27, 1521, Lapu-Lapu and the men of Mactan, armed with spears, kampilan and kalasag, faced Spanish soldiers led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. In what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan, Magellan and several of his men were killed. According to Sulu oral tradition, Lapu-Lapu was a Muslim chieftain,[3] and was also known as "Kaliph Pulaka".[4] Other Moros also recognize him as a Muslim and as a Tausūg.[5] A variant of the name, as written by Carlos Calao, a 17th century Chinese-Spanish poet in his poem "Que Dios Le Perdone" (Spanish, "That God May Forgive Him") is "Cali Pulacu".[6] In the 19th century, the propagandist Mariano Ponce used a variant name, "Kalipulako", as one of his pseudonyms.[7] The 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence refers to Lapu-Lapu as "King Kalipulako de Maktan.