Chapter 10

• Rizal


  True Filipino with an unquenchable love for the Philippines and an unshakable determination to die in the land of his birth
• Decision to Return Home

  1. Warned by Paciano, Silvestre Ubaldo, Chengoy to return home

  2. Determined to return for: operate on mother's eyes, serve his people, find out how Noli and writings affected Filipinos and Spaniards, inquire why Leonor Rivera remained silent
• Rizal wrote to his father, announcing his homecoming


  June 29, 1887
• Rizal


  • Could speak many languages, acted as interpreter for his companions
• Rizal arrived in Manila


  August 5
• Rizal's homecoming


  Family welcomed him affectionately, with plentiful tears of joy
• Rizal's activities in Calamba

  1. Established a medical clinic

  2. Treated patients, acquired lucrative medical practice

  3. Opened a gymnasium for young folks, introduced European sports
• Rizal's arrival in Calamba


  His family became worried for his safety, Paciano did not leave him the first day, his father would not let him go out alone
• Governor General Terrero read the Noli and found nothing wrong with it</b>
• Report of the faculty members of the University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was "heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religion order, and antipatriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order"
• Governor General Terrero was dissatisfied with the report of the Dominicans, for he knew that the Dominicans were prejudiced against Rizal
• Many Filipinos were able to get hold of copies of the Noli which they read at night behind closed doors
• Titles of Fr. Jose Rodriguez's pamphlets attacking the Noli


  • Porque no los he de leer? (Why Should I not Read Them?)
  • Guardaos de ellos. Porque?(Beware of Them. Why?)
  • Y_que me dice usted de la peste? (And What Can You Tell Me of Plague?)
  • Porquetriufan los impios? (Why Do the Impious Truimph?)
  • Cree ustedque de versa no hay purgatorio? (Do You Think There Is Really No Purgatory?)
  • Hay o no hay infierno? (Is There or Is There No Hell?)
  • Que le pareceausted de esoslibelos? (What Do You Think of These Libels?)
  • Confession o condenacion? (Confession or Damnation?)
• Many Filipinos were forced to buy Fr. Rodriguez's pamphlets in order not to displease the friars, but they did not believe what their author said with hysterical fervor
• The Noli was fiercely attacked on the session hall of the Senate of the Spanish Cortes by various senators
• Defenders of the Noli

  • Marcelo H. Del Pilar
  • Dr.Antonio Ma. Regidor
  • Graciano Lopez Jaena
  • Mariano Ponce
• Rev. Vicente Garcia, a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, theologian of the Manila Cathedral, and a Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, defended the Noli
• During the days when Noli was the target of heated controversy between the friars (and their minions) and the friends of Rizal, all copies of it were sold out and the price per copy soared to unprecedented level
• Governor General Terrero's generosity in assigning a bodyguard to Rizal


  Rizal was not molested in Calamba
• Rizal's exposure of the deplorable conditions of tenancy in Calamba


  Infuriated his enemies, the friars exerted pressure on Malacanang Palace to eliminate Rizal
• Governor General Terrero summoned Rizal and "advised" him to leave the Philippines for his own good, giving Rizal a chance to escape the fury of the friar's wrath
• Shortly before Rizal left Calamba in 1888 his friend from Lipa requested him to write a poem in commemoration of the town's elevation to a villa (city) by virtue of the Becerra Law of 1888
• Rizal wrote the "Himno Al Trabajo" (Hymn to Labor) and sent it to Lipa before his departure from Calamba
• Rizal

  True Filipino with an unquenchable love for the Philippines and an unshakable determination to die in the land of his birth
• Decision to Return Home

  1. Warned by Paciano, Silvestre Ubaldo, Chengoy to return home

  2. Determined to return for: operate on mother's eyes, serve his oppressed people, find out impact of writings, inquire about Leonor Rivera
• Rizal wrote to his father, announcing his homecoming


  June 29, 1887
• Rizal was the only one among the passengers who could speak many languages, so that he acted as interpreter for his companions
• Rizal arrived in Manila


  August 5
• Happy Homecoming


  Rizal's family welcomed him affectionately, with plentiful tears of joy
• Rizal's activities in Calamba

  1. Established a medical clinic

  2. Treated patients, acquired lucrative medical practice

  3. Opened a gymnasium for young folks, introduced European sports
• Rizal's arrival in Calamba


  His family became worried for his safety, Paciano did not leave him the first day, his father would not let him go out alone
• Governor General Terrero read the Noli and found nothing wrong with it
• Report of the faculty members of the University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was "heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religion order, and antipatriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order"
• Governor General Terrero was dissatisfied with the report of the Dominicans, for he knew that the Dominicans were prejudiced against Rizal
• Many Filipinos were able to get hold of copies of the Noli which they read at night behind closed doors, despite the government prohibition and the vigilance of the cruel Guardia Civil
• Governor General Terrero refused to be intimidated by the friars who clamored for harsh measures against people who caught reading the novel and its author
• Titles of Fr. Jose Rodriguez's pamphlets attacking the Noli

  • Porque no los he de leer?
  • Guardaos de ellos. Porque?
  • Y_que me dice usted de la peste?
  • Porquetriufan los impios?
  • Cree ustedque de versa no hay purgatorio?
  • Hay o no hay infierno?
  • Que le pareceausted de esoslibelos?
  • Confession o condenacion?
• Many Filipinos were forced to buy Fr. Rodriguez's pamphlets in order not to displease the friars, but they did not believe what their author said with hysterical fervor
• The Noli was fiercely attacked on the session hall of the Senate of the Spanish Cortes by various senators
• Defenders of the Noli

  • Marcelo H. Del Pilar
  • Dr.Antonio Ma. Regidor
  • Graciano Lopez Jaena
  • Mariano Ponce