Rizal

• Rizal decided to return to the Philippines


  August 1886
• Rizal's journey to the Philippines

  1. Left Rome by train for Marseilles

  2. Boarded the Djemnah bound to Saigon

  3. Arrived in Saigon, transferred to the steamer Haifong

  4. Arrived in Manila
• Rizal arrived in Saigon

  July 30, 1886
• Rizal arrived in Manila


  August 6, 1886
• Rizal reached Calamba


  August 7, 1886
• Rizal's actions in Calamba


  • Turned the ground floor of their house into a medical clinic
  • Successfully restored the eyesight of his mother who had double cataracts
• The good news of Rizal's medical skills spread quickly and many sick people sought his help
• Rizal's professional fee


  • If the patient is poor, a simple "thank you" is enough
  • If the patient is rich, he would charge in the European way
• The people called Rizal "Dr. Uleman" having arrived from Germany
• Rizal shared his blessings to his town mates by building a gymnasium for the youth to discourage them from gambling
• Rizal failed to see Leonor during his six months' vacation due to conflicts between their parents
• Summons


  A writ commanding the sheriff, or other authorized officer, to notify a party to appear in court to answer a complaint made against him
• Rizal went to Malacañang to answer any question surrounding his novel Noli Me Tangere

  
• Rizal denied that he was a spy from Germany and explained that he was only expressing the truth of what is going on in the society in his novel
• The Governor was satisfied with Rizal's answer and asked for a copy of the novel, since he had not read it himself
• Rizal's enemies accused the novel of having subversive ideas against the church and the Spanish government

  
• The Governor assigned a bodyguard, a young Spanish Lieutenant Don Jose Taviel de Andrade, to protect Rizal
• The powerful friars put the novel under strict scrutiny headed by Manila Archbishop Messenger Pedro Payo and UST Rector Father Gregorio Echevarria, who found the novel heretical, impious, and scandalous
• The process of banning Noli Me Tangere

  1. The Governor sent the novel for further assessment to the Permanent Commission on Censorship

  2. The Commission recommended that the book be banned and have its circulation in the islands be totally stopped
• The ban only made the Filipinos more curious in reading the novel, and its price was exorbitantly priced
• Rizal's enemies from the Church

  • Manila Archbishop Messenger Pedro Payo
  • UST Rector Father Gregorio Echevarria
  • Father Salvador Font - head of the Permanent Commission on Censorship
  • Father Jose Rodriguez
• Rizal's allies


  • Marcelo H. Del Pilar (pen name Dolores Manapat)
  • Father Francisco Sanchez
• General Weyler began enforcing the will of the Dominicans by sending artillery and military forces to Calamba to demolish the house of Rizal's parents


  September 6, 1890
• On the first day 60 families were thrown out of their houses and the sugar mills and all other buildings they had erected were destroyed
• The Dominicans forbade the rest of the townspeople to give the unfortunates lodging and hospitality
• By the end of September 400 tenants had been evicted
• The liberal governor-general Terrerro was replaced by the conservative general Valeriano Weyler in 1888, who was completely on the side of the Dominicans
• The Dominicans put pressure on Malacañang to eliminate Rizal, and Governor-general Terrero advised Rizal to leave the Philippines for his own good
• The Dominicans were paying the government only the income tax due on the original smaller hacienda, while claiming a much more extensive area
• Rizal wrote down his findings, which were signed by the tenants in January 1888, and he submitted the report to the government
• The friars wanted to withhold the tenants from telling the truth, while the Rizal family and other Calamba tenants wanted to tell the truth
• Rizal was forced to leave the Philippines for the second time, hounded by powerful enemies

  1888
• Rizal's journey from the Philippines to Hong Kong

  1. Left via the steamer Zafiro bound for Hong Kong

  2. Did not get off the ship in Amoy, Hong Kong due to illness, rain, and hearing the city is dirty
• Hong Kong was a British colony at the time
• Rizal was shadowed in Hong Kong by Jose Sainz de Varanda, a Spaniard and former secretary of Governor-General Terrero, believed to be commissioned by Spanish authorities to spy on Rizal

  
• Rizal visited Macau, a Portuguese colony near Hong Kong, and stayed at the house of a Filipino gentleman Don Juan Francisco Lecaros
• During his two weeks in Hong Kong, Rizal studied Chinese life, language, drama and customs
• Rizal was embarrassed in Japan because he did not know how to speak Japanese and was mistakenly considered a Europeanized Japanese
• Rizal's impressions of Japan

  • The scenic beauty of the country
  • The cleanliness, politeness and industry of the Japanese people
  • The picturesque dress and simple charm of the Japanese women
  • Few thieves and rarely seen beggars
  • Dislike of the rickshaw as a mode of transportation
• 1. Sei-San


  A former samurai's daughter of 23 years old who had never experienced true love, and became Rizal's guide, interpreter and tutor in Japan