This collection chiefly contains the research papers of Presbyterian missionary Eugene A. Hessel (died 2007) on Filipino nationalist José Rizal (1861-1896).

Eugene A. Hessel was a Presbyterian minister, seminary professor, and missionary in the Philippines (1947-1969). He was a graduate of the San Francisco Theological Seminary. He died in 2007 in Pasadena, California.José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino nationalist at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion in 1896.

Approximately 366 items in 3 boxes

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