Week 7

• Rizal decided to return to the Philippines


  August 1887
• Left Rome by train for Marseilles
• Boarded the Djemmah bound to Saigon
• He arrived in Saigon, where he transferred to the steamer Haifong.


  July 30, 1888
• Rizal arrived in Manila


  August 6, 1888
• He reached Calamba, where there was a dramatic meeting


  August 1888
• He turned the ground floor of their house as a medical clinic
• His first patient was his mother who could hardly see
• His bodyguard was a young Spanish Lieutenant

  Don Jose Taviel de Andrade
• The powerful friars put the novel under strict scrutiny headed by Manila Archbishop Msgr. Pedro Payo
• He sent a copy to the UST Fr. Rector Gregorio Echevarria for examination
• The latter found the novel heretical, impious, and scandalous.
• Head of the Permanent Commission on Censorship

  Fr. Salvador Font
• Published an anti-Noli pamphlet entitled "Caiingat Cayo"

  Fr. Jose Rodriguez
• A Spanish writer who openly criticized the novel in the spanish newspaper La Esperanza Moderna


  Vicente Barrantes
• He published a pamphlet entitled "Caiigat Cayo" that refuted and ridiculed Fr. Rodriguez' "Caiingat Cayo"


  Marcelo H. Del Pilar
• Rizal's beloved Ateneo teacher

  Fr. Francisco Sanchez
• For the second time, Rizal sailed to Hong Kong

  February 8, 1888
• In Hong Kong, he was accompanied by Jose Maria Basa to Macau
• He had fallen in love not only with the view but more to its women, particularly with the 23-year old Seiko Usui or O-Sei-san
• Seiko only decided to marry in 1897 after Rizal died at 1896
• Rizal boarded Belgic going to the United States
• He met a Japanese journalist who was sent to exile for his anti-government articles

  Tetcho Suehiro
• Suehiro wrote a book entitled "The Deaf Traveler" wherein he mentioned his travel with Rizal
• Tetcho's novel "The Storm on the Southern Seas" had a similar plot like the Noli.
• The Belgic docked at San Francisco, California at April 28, 1888
• Rizal met Mr. Leland Stanford, the founder of Stanford University when he registered himself at the Palace Hotel
• Two visited Don Juan Francisco Lecaros, former Filipino delegate to the Spanish Cortes (Hong Kong)
• Terrero's former secretary, Jose Sainz de Varanda, spied on Rizal in the said colonies.