Jose rizal letter to leonor rivera tagalog

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    “Goodbye to Leonor” was written by Rizal for his childhood sweetheart, Leonor Rivera — who was only 13 years old when they met in Dagupan. Despite the distance between them, they tried to stay in touch by sending letters and photographs to one another. But their love affair was strongly disapproved by Leonor’s parents.

    Later on, Leonor (who was Rizal’s sweetheart for 11 years) married Henry Kipping, a British railway engineer, who helped build the Manila-Dagupan Railway system in 1890. This deeply saddened Rizal, thus this melancholic poem for Leonor.

    And so it has arrived — the fatal instant,
    the dismal injunction of my cruel fate;
    so it has come at last — the moment, the date,
    when I must separate myself from you.

    Goodbye, Leonor, goodbye! I take my leave,
    leaving behind with you my lover’s heart!
    Goodbye, Leonor: from here I now depart.
    O Melancholy absence! Ah, what pain!

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    Leonor Rivera, Rizal's sweetheart, age 15.
    We never had a chance to know what Dr. José Rizal wrote to Leonor Rivera because Doña Silvestra, Leonor's mother hid Rizal's love letters from Europe and confiscated Leonor's outgoing mails. All the while Leonor Rivera thought José Rizal had forgotten her. Travelling in Spain, Paris, Germany, and other European cities, Rizal thought Leonor had abandoned him. Rizal was heartbroken when he learned that Leonor Rivera, who had been convinced that José  no longer cared, consented to marry someone else.

    José Rizal poured his heart out to his friend Ferdinand Blumentritt.

    Later, when Leonor discovered her mother's treacherous interference (at her marriage to the Englishman, Henry Kipping) she ordered all the letters burned and kept the ashes.  Years later, she died during childbirth  and her last wishes was for the Rizal letter-ashes to be buried with her.

    (In a recent address by Dr Ambeth Ocampo, October,

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    Leonor Rivera

    Jose Rizal's childhood love interest

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivera and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Bauzon.

    Leonor Rivera-Kipping (née Rivera y Bauzon; 11 April 1867 – 28 August 1893)[1] was the childhood sweetheart, and “lover by correspondence”[2] of Philippine national hero José Rizal. Rivera was the “greatest influence” in preventing Rizal from falling in love with other women while Rizal was traveling outside the Philippines.[3] Rivera's romantic relationship with Rizal lasted for eight years.[4] She was immortalized by Rizal as the character María Clara in the Spanish-language novel Noli Me Tangere.[2] Her original hometown fryst vatten in Camiling, Tarlac.

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    Born as Leonor Bauzon Rivera, a native of Camiling, Tarlac, was the daughter of Antonio Rivera and Silvestra Bauzon.[1] Her father (whom Rizal calls "Uncle Antonio" in hi