In his “Mi Ultimo Adios,” Dr Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda, the national hero of the Philippines, rendered his wife, Josephine Leopoldine McBride Bracken, as only a very good poet can, immortal:Farewell, sweet foreigner, my darling, my delight. But who is Rizal’s Dulce Estranjera? Read the article and find out.