Rizal bring back to Europe

Jose p. Rizal travel opened the Museum in Brussels over the weekend, ahead of the commemoration on Tuesday of the 150th anniversary of the birth of national hero of the country, including the most renowned overseas Filipino.

The event commemorating the life and work of Dr. Jose Rizal (1861-1896) was organized by one of the most active proponents of the overseas hero teachings — the Knights of Rizal, which today has chapters in Belgium, Germany, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the United States and many other parts of the world.

The traveling museum (June 16-19), is set on the Philippine Embassy in Brussels. The event also premiers "Rizal" the Hero, "a 30-minute documentary about doctor Rizal, his studies in Madrid and travel through Europe and America; his role in the propaganda movement against Spanish rule in the Philippines; his return and imprisonment; and finally his martyrdom in Bagumbayan in 1898.

Sir Dominiek Segaert, Commander of the area of the Knights of Rizal in Belgium, said that the exhibition will feature real clothing, books, letters, as well as replicas created by Filipino fashion designer John Ablaza.  The traveling museum will be opened by Philippine Ambassador Victoria BATACLAN and Antonio Guansing, regional commander of the Knights of Rizal in Europe.

A statement by the organizers said that the Jose p. Rizal travel Museum was originally launched on 3 April 1998 in Cebu City in line with the celebration of 100 years of Philippine independence.

The project was carried out by the University of Southern Leyte in Cebu City, cultural and historical Affairs Commission, Cebu City and the Philippine Centennial movement. It has made in 16 port cities in the Philippines and was also mounted in Chicago in the United States.

It will be the first time the museum will be launched in Europe-where doctor Rizal went to study medicine, and he wrote his famous novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo —. There are monuments of the Philippine hero in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, China and Singapore, among others.

On 19 June, the order, whose mission is to keep the memory of the hero life, will lay wreaths on monuments or else his birth anniversary commemorated on June 19 in different parts of the world. In Canada it will be held in the Earl Bales Park in Toronto, according to an announcement posted on Munting Nayon, a Philippine online magazine in Netherlands.

According to historian Ambeth Ocampo would incorrectly Call Rizal's first OFW (overseas Filipino worker). There were many Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade Filipinos who worked in the centuries before Rizal was born, he noted.

But Ocampo writes that "the OFW connection is very relevant since Rizal's letters to his family and friends homesickness, longing and self-sacrifice that many OFWs today treaties reflect."