Chapter 5

• June 26, 1892 - arrived in Manila
• Welcomed by:

  • Apolinario Mabini
  • Andres Bonifacio
  • Ambrosio Salvador
  • Pedro Serrano Laktaw
  • Deodato Arellano
• La Liga Filipina - discusses in a house on Calle Ylaya
• Governor General Despujol (July 1892) - lifitng the order of exile for his sisters
• Dapitan - remote town in Mindanao

  • outpost of the Spaniards
  • only witness to Rizal's fate since July 1896
• Captain Ricardo Carnicero - allowed Rizal to roam the place
• Rizal continued the following:

  • medicine
  • research
  • sculpture
  • painting
  • sketching
  • poetry writing
  • school for boys
• A Don Ricardo Carnicero - dedicated to Captain Carcinero, written in Aug. 26, 1892
• Sept. 21, 1892 - won a lottery ticket, his share waa ₱6,200
• What he bought:

  (1) buy land in Talisay

  (2) house

  (3) clinic

  (4) school
• George Tauffer - step-father of Josephine Bracken who traveled from Hong Kong to Dapitan
• Father Obach - against Rizal and Josephine
• Projects of Rizal

  • creation of a big map in Mindanao (geography class)
  • position of Dapitan to the townspeople
  • invented a water system (drinking and irrigation)
  • lamp posts
• Manila in 1896 - where the revolution commenced
• Dr. Pio Valenzuela and Raymundo Mata - visited Rizal to narrate him about the Katipunan
• Governor General Ramon Blanco (1894- 1895) - Rizal wrote letters to him
• Cuba - colony of Spain that was raged with yellow fever epidemic
• July 30, 1892 - Governor General Ramon Blanco - granted his request to go to Cuba
• Sept. 3, 1896 - went to Barcelona
• Governor- General Despujol - commanded Rizal to return to Manila
• Mediterranean Sea - where Rizal was arrested
• Barcelona, Spain - where he was imprisoned
• Nov. 3, 1896 - imprisoned at Fort Santiago
• Nov. 20, 1896 - Judge Colonel Francisco Olive (Advocate of the Spanish Military tribunal) - summoned rizal for a 5 day investigation
• Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade - Rizal's lawyer
• Two kinds of evidence:

  (1) Documentary

  (2) Testimonial
• Gathered:

  • 15 documents
  • 10 witnesses
• Dec. 29, 1896 - at 6:00 am, Captain Rafael Dominguez read him his notice of execution
• Trinidad - Rizal left something inside the gas lamp
• Trinidad and Maria - got a copy of Rizal's last poem
• Mi Ultimo Adios or My Last Farewell - last poem he composed and the longest he had ever written
• Dec. 29, 1896 - last supper in the evening
• 3:00 am - prayed and confessed his sins in the chapel
• 5:30 am - had his last breakfast of 3 hard-boiled eggs
• After breakfast - signed some memorabilia including religious pictures and books, gave them to his Mother and Trinidad
• Imitacion de Cristo - Gift of Rizal to Josephine
• Dec. 30, 1896 - 6:30 am, walked to Bagumbayan along with lawyer Andrade and two Jesuit priests (1) March and (2) Vilaclara
• Sound of trumpet - start of death march

  Muffled sound of drums - musical score of the walk
• Consummatum est (It is finished!) - yelled Christ's two words
• "tira de gracia" - mercy shot in the head to make sure Rizal is dead