Week 7

Cards (29)

  • 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.