Second version This next version is interesting because it bears a strong parallelism to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nanay Naty Rebenque, 80, is one of the 24 elders of the Iglesia Watawat ng Lahi and a graduate of Watawat’s spiritual course on Mental Physics and Occult Sciences. She recounted to me how Rizal came to this world: There was a couple named Emmanuel and Juana who lived in the forests of Mount Makiling. They had three unmarried daughters named Mariang Makiling, Mariang Sinukuan, and Mariang Banahaw. One day, an angel of God visited the eldest daughter Mariang Makiling while she was fetching water from a well. The angel told her she would be bearing the child who would save the Philippines from the Spaniards. Mariang Makiling got pregnant. As months went by, Mariang Makiling’s parents noticed that her belly was getting bigger. They demanded to know who the father of the child was. Maria could not tell her parents that she was bearing God in her womb. One night, Emmanuel and Juana were visited in a dream by an angel who told them they should not worry because Mariang Makiling was carrying God in her womb. On the eve of Rizal’s birth, Mariang Makiling, accompanied by an angel, went to the house of a well-to-do couple named Don Francisco Mercado and Dona Teodora Alonso. Mariang Makiling asked the kindly couple if they would let her spend the night in their house. The couple gladly welcomed Mariang Makiling, knowing that she could give birth any time. During the night, Mariang Makiling delivered a baby boy. She clothed the baby in a diaper with the name Jove Rex Al sewn into it. She hurriedly left afterwards. Mariang Makiling, however much she was sought by Dona Teodora, was nowhere to be found. Dona Teodora therefore took care of the baby as her own. When she saw the name of the baby on its diaper, she changed the name to make it similar to Filipino names, therefore, Jose Rizal.
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