Segunda Katigbak

She was Jose Rizals

and with her the hero was believed to have had

Rizal was
years old when one Sunday in 1887 he paid visit to his maternal grandmother
in ________and there met
, Segunda Katigbak, a __-year-younger-than-him colegiala. In one of his diaries ___ , Rizal
graphically described her as a short lady with eloquent eyes, rosy cheeks, and smile that
reveals very beautiful teeth
__________, Segundas brother and Rizals classmate who was also in the house, probably had
no idea that his friend had been experiencing a love at first sight being bewitched by his
alluring sister.
During the 1880s, the Katigbaks of Batangas were known for their successful and very
lucrative industry.
Segunda gave him a ______ and Rizal gave her in exchange a ______________

In hindsight, we can submit that Rizal was somewhat ____________

As in the song
the artificial flower was perhaps Segundas way of insinuating
that their affection was
_______ from the very start
rumor that she had been engaged to be married to a fellow-townsman, __________ , even
before she met Pepe, was all along true
Rizals _______later was probably his major reason, being a man of delicadeza, why he did not
propose to her, more than his being____or a reluctant lover.
_____________where the young lovers talked to each other for the last time
It was a romantic day in when the confused Rizal came to see the ever-hopeful Segunda
giving Rizal enough opportunity to say anything romantic, especially __________that
pronouncement which a lover would want to hear from a beloved.
Rizal indeed uttered a three-syllable statement. The young Rizal said, __________
steamer carrying Segunda anchored
in so Jose saddled his
to wait at the road
When Segundas
passed by, she smiled and waved her
to him

puppy love/love
first sight
16/ Trozo, Manila

at

Two/ Memoirs of a
Student in Manila
Mariano Katigbak

coffee
White artificial roses/
pencil sketch
clueless and nave
Paper
hopeless

Roses/

Manuel Luz
discovery of the real
score/torpe
La Concordia
December 1877
sweetest tri-syllabic
Well, good-bye
Bian/ white horse
Carromata/
handkerchief

Incident that marked the end of everything between the young lovers.

Segunda returned
to and in due time married
who also hailed from a prominent
family in Batangas
The Luz-Katigbak ancestral house called
, an old bahay-na-bato which survived the
World War II bombings, still exists today in Lipa on a street ironically named _____________.
The sportscaster
, a descendant of Segunda and Manuel, once related in a TV interview
that Rizal had gone to Casa de Segunda, played chess and lost to his Lolo Manuel.
The historic house has been declared a
in 1996 by the National Historical
Commission

turned
his
horse
around and decided
to ride home instead
Batangas/
Don
Manuel Luz y Metra
Casa de Segunda/
Calle Rizal
Chino Trinidad/
National
house

Heritage