Rizal Homecoming

• Why Rizal Wanted to Come Home

  • To operate on his mom’s eye 
  • To serve his people, who were oppressed by the Spaniards 
  • He wanted to know the effects of Noli on the Filipinos and Spaniards 
  • To know why Leonor Rivera was silent
• Paciano did not leave Rizal on his first day of arrival
• Don Fransisco did not let Rizal go out alone
• Rizal was called Dr Uliman because he came from Germany
• Rizal's clinic costs 900 to 5000 in medical fees
• Rizal opened a gymnasium to introduce European sports (Fencing and shooting) but discouraged vices like cockfights and gambling
• Rizal tried to go to Dagpuan, but Leonor's parents forbid him to go. Because they do not like Rizal as son-in-law, and they already arranged Leonor to marry another man.
• The Noli was started in Madrid on 1884 and finished in Berlin
• Noli was inspired by the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beacher Stowe
• Governor General Emilio Terrero (Gov. Gen since 1885-1888) invited Rizal to the Malacanan palace. Because he is open-minded he believed there was nothing wrong with Noli
• Governor General Terrero knew that Rizal’s life was in jeopardy because of the powerful friars so he assigned a young Spanish lieutenant, Don Jose Taviel de Andrade, as his bodyguard for security measures.
• Rizal Visited the Jesuits including his former professors (Fr. Fransisco de Paula Sanchez, Fr. Jose Beach, Fr. Frederico Faura) 
• Archbishop Pedro Payo (Dominican Archbishop of Manila) sent a copy of Noli Me Tangere to Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria (UST) to examine the novel
• The governor was dissatisfied with the Dominicans' report, as he knew they disliked Rizal. Due to this, he sent the novel to the Permanent Commission of Censorship, composed of priests and laymen
• Headed by Fr. Salvador Font (Agustinian friar curate of Tondo), he drafted the report and submitted it to the governor-general on December 29. The committee found the novel contained subversive ideas against the Church and Spain. They banned noli, which intrigued the Filipinos more to read it. 
• Despite government prohibition, Filipinos could get hold of the copies they read at night behind closed doors. Because of the interest of both enemies and protectors of the novel the book increased from 5 pesetas per copy to 50 pesetas per copy. The copy is smuggled in the country amidst it being banned due to increase in demand.
• Propagandist such as Marcelo H. del Pilar, Gracias Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Ma. Regidor, Mariano Ponce rushed to uphold the truths of the novel.
• Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanches (Rizal’s favorite teacher in Anteneo), defended and praised the novel in public.
• Rev. Fr. Vicente Garcia (Filipino Catholic Priest), a theologian of the Manila Cathedral wrote a defense of the novel published in Singapore, under the pen name “Justo Desiderio”
• Rizal went back to Manila in 1892 as he embarked on a mission fueled by the belief that the fight for Filipino liberties had entered a new phase, necessitating active engagement within the Philippines.
• Rizal visited his sister first on June 26 then, have an interview with the Gobernador general in Malacañan Palace.
• Rizal visited his friends in Central Luzon on June 27
• Rizal encountered Doroteo Ongjunco, who owns the house where Dr. Jose Rizal founded “La Liga Filipina.”
• Haciendas owned by the Dominicans: 

  • Hacienda de Naic in Cavite. 
  • Hacienda de Lolomboy in Bulacan. 
  • Haciendas in Laguna: San Pedro, Biñan, Santa Rosa, and Calamba (birthplace of Rizal)
• Deportation of Paciano, Silvestre Ubaldo, and 25 others to Mindoro