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(Trinidad Rizal)
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Trinidad helped found the first Masonic lodge for women in the Philippines. She was also a member of Walana, a Filipino masonry society, formed in Manila on July 18, 1893, closely allied with the masonic temples of the ilustrados.
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In 1905, Trinidad co-founded the first Filipina feminist organization, the Asociacion Feminista Filipina (AFF), along with Concepcion Felix, <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/2739/today-in-philippine-history-january-17-1873-librada-avelino-a-filipina-educator-who-co-founded-the-centro-escolar-university-was-born-in-quiapo-manila" class="news_link">Librada Avelino</a>, <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1701/may-10-1884-maria-paz-mendoza-guazon-was-born-in-pandacan-manila" class="news_link">Maria Paz Guanzon</a>, and Luisa de Silyar, among others. In addition to encouraging women to participate in politics and public service, the organization promoted women's health. Trinidad participated in a subproject of AFF, Gota de Leche (also called La Proteccion de la Infancia), which focused on improving reproductive and maternal, infant, and child health.
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Trinidad visited Jose the day before his execution, accompanying their mother, Teodora Alonso, and sisters Lucia, Josefa, Maria, and Narcisa, to say goodbye and collect his belongings. Several historical accounts say that Jose gave his stove (other accounts say it's a lamp) to Trinidad, telling her something important lay inside,  Rizal's last poem, "Mi ultimo adios" / "My last farewell". He had hidden the paper so well that his sisters had to use their hairpins to unfold it.
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(Teodora Alonso, with her daughters and granddaughters, a few days after the burial of Francisco Mercado, Trinidad is standing, extreme right)
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Before his death, Jose wrote to Trinidad to express his wish that the Rizal family treat his common-law wife, <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/462/today-in-philippine-history-august-9-1876-josephine-bracken-was-born-in-victoria-hong-kong" class="news_link">Josephine Bracken</a>, kindly for her devotion to him. Following his execution, Trinidad accompanied Josephine and brother, <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/2697/the-little-known-but-equally-patriotic-general-paciano-rizal" class="news_link">Paciano</a>, to Cavite where they met revolutionary leader <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/786/today-in-philippine-history-november-30-1863-andres-bonifacio-was-born-in-tondo-manila" class="news_link">Andres Bonifacio</a> and passed to him a copy of Jose's final poem.
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Like her sister, Josefa Rizal, Trinidad never married. She died in Manila on May 9, 1951. She was buried in Manila's North Cemetery (Cemeterio del Norte) on May 11, 1951. Her remains were later exhumed, along with those of sister Narcisa, and relocated to the General Paciano Rizal shrine in Los Baños, Laguna.
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Source:
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Trinidad Rizal, Wikipedia
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A Glimpse into the Life of Josephine Bracken, September 18, 2012, https://nhcp.gov.ph/
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June 6, 1868: Trinidad Rizal, younger sister of Jose Rizal, was born in Calamba, Laguna