To mark the 152nd year since national hero Dr. Jose Rizal was born, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office has released colorized photos of him on their website.
Here is the doctor as we’ve never seen him before. Well, not in digital color, anyway.
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Rizal with fellow illustrados Marcelo H. Del Pilar and Mariano Ponce
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Dr. Rizal examining a European patient
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Rizal with artist Juan Luna and propagandist Valentin Ventura in Paris
The photos are part of an online commemoration by the Presidential Museum and Library that is also available on its Facebook and Tumblr accounts. The commemoration includes a recording of a speech–read by actor Audie Gemora–that Rizal made to toast Juan Luna and Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo for winning medals at the Expocision National de Bellas Artes de Madrid in 1884.
