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What Rizal Did in Dapitan: Collecting Local Fauna, Establishing a Boarding School, and Healing the Sick

The national hero’s activities in Dapitan prove that he was the quintessential Renaissance man.

When Jose Rizal was shipped off to Dapitan-a sleepy town at the northernmost tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula-he had lived in Madrid, Paris, and London; taken a train across the United States; made acquaintances with European intellectuals; and written two ...

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