It is called serendipity, because it is not everyday that a historian finds his mother while doing library research abroad.Goi...

It is called serendipity, because it is not everyday that a historian finds his mother while doing library research abroad.

Going over Filipiniana periodicals in the Mauro Garcia Collection, Sophia University Library, Tokyo I found photos of Rizal's mother and sister then in a magazine article on promoting tourism in the Philippines--there was mom, beautiful in her Balintawak, it was like she came out of a landscape by Fernando Amorsolo.

If only she passed on 1% of her beauty on me, my life wo...