Rizal in Ateneo

- Ateneo was still known as escuela pia

- Francisco Mercado said he should study in Letran
- Fr. Ferrando decided not to admit Rizal because he was ate and too short
- Paciano has a connection to Manuel Burgos which helped rizal to enter Ateneo

2 groups in Ateneo

- Romans- consisting of internos

- Carthaginians- compose of externos
- During the first semester Rizal was considered an Externo and won various awards
- During first summer, Rizal Boarded in Intramuros which is owned Donya Pepay
- During 2nd summer, Rizal spent his summer in Calamba so that he can visit her mother from
prison.

-The count of Monte Cristo was written Alexandro Domas

- He is also fascinated to other things such as the love for the country

- When he is 3rd year, he only received 1 medal in Latin

- When he is 4th year , Father Sanchez encouraged him to study harder and write poetries in which he
earned 5 medal

- Father Sanchez was considered by Rizal as the Best Teacher

- He graduated as top of his class

- He studied painting and sculpture under Romualdo de Jesus (famous painter) and Agustin Saez( famous
sculptor)

- Father Lleonart requested him to carved a holy image, he carved the Sacred Heart of Jesus – the carved
was placed in the dormitory

- While at Ateneo, Rizal wrote a Peom called “ Mi Primera Inspiracion” which dedicated to his Mother
Mama Teodora for her birthday.

Father Sanchez requested him to write drama

-When rizal visited his grandmother in Batangas during summer, a beautiful woman captured his eyes
named Segunda Katigbak. Rizal made her a portrait.
Rizal of the Dominican- University of the Philippines – UST

- Whe he entered UST, he don’t know what course to take but his Jesuit Mentors told him to take
priesthood or farming.
- But Rizal wanted to take Literature, Medicine, or Law
- Paciano doesn’t want him to take law due to the political conditions of the country
- He took Philosophy and Letters which what his father wanted him to take.
- After his first year, he shifted to Medicine because father ramon advised him to and to cure his
mother’s ailment.
- But he was not good in UST, Medicine is not for him but arts.
- He met Orang Valenzuela and Leonor Rivera

Liberalism in UST

- They talked about :

-Revolution of the Senses against the other worldliness of monasticism

- Revolution of Human Reason against the comforting certitudes of Catechism

- Revolution of Race and Nation against inequality and subjection.

- Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila- An organization of art lovers in the Philippines

Rizal’s important Literary works

- A La Juventud Filipina – To the Filipino youth- rizals first testimony of Nationalism

- El Consejo de Los Dioses- The counsil of the gods- In 1880 literary contest winner but because he
is filipinino, they disregarded his work and made the Spaniards win.
- Junto Al Pasig- Beside the pasig- for the feast day of Immaculate Conception
- A Filipinas- a sonnet in 1880- to encourage Filipino artists to glorify the country through their
artworks

Student Activism

- Hostility starts between the Filipino students and the Spanish mestizo students
- Filipinos where called Indio or Chongo
- Spaniards where called Kastila or Bangus
- Jose Rizal was a leader and his secretary was Galicao Apacible formed a secret society of Filipino
students united called Companerismo
- Rizal criticized boldy the defective and outmoded university education of his time
• Humiliating treatment to brown Filipino students
• Condemned the archaic method of instruction at UST
• Described comically the teaching of physics devoid of lab experiments
• Favouritism and skin color were the criteria of judgement for academic
performance instead of intellectual brilliance.
- Rizal had his first taste of brutality after his first semester at UST.
- Rizal travelled to Barcelona. This was partly because of his disappointment with his schooling at
UST.
- Th
- Hidden real purposes of Rizal’s voyage to Europe
1. To make a name for himself in the realm of journalism
2. To observe and study europian society
3. To prepare himself for the task of liberating the Filipinos from Spanish tyranny.
He stayed in Pasig for 2 days to board to Singapore and stayed in there for 2 days.

- From Singapore, rizal boarded a ship jemna to France .

- The Ship stopped in point galle in Ceylon and Port Said at Suez Canal
- He reached june 18 1982 in naples. To Marseile
- He entered spain at June 15, 1882

- Rizal in Barcelona
- he was welcome by his former classmates. He write to his family and relatives and friends.
- Through writing, paciano belived that rizal would be able to express his nationalistic and
patriotic sentiment, which in effect, can arouse the hostility and suspicion of Spanish Regime.
- When this happens,, Rizal a poet will be transformed intro patriot, a novelist, and a nationalist. \
- He wrote nationalistic articles called El Amor Patrio or Love of Country. He wrote this when he
was still 21 years old, under the pseudonym Laong Laan. It came out on august 20, 1882 in the
Diarong Tagalog in Manila.
- For the first time, he used the term tierra Extranjera or foreign land in referring to spain.
-

- Rizal moved to Madrid in 1882 to resume his studies. He enrolled in Philosophy and letters and
licentiate in medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid.
- Even if he is busy, he still managed to take lessons in painting and sculpting at the academia de
San Fernando
- Fencing at the schools of Sanz and Carbonell and lessons in german, English, French, in Madrid
Ateneo.
- He even contemplated taking an exam on Roman Law for possible enrollment in Law.
- He failed to geet his doctorate diploma due to his failure on paying the fee for presentation
and defense of his thesis, which was the final requirement of the course.
- Rizal completed the half of Noli me Tangere
- He took time to associate with the Filipino expatriates in Madrid, despite his busy schedule. He
met Pedro Paterno, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Gregorio Sanciano, Juan Lune, Felix Hidalgo, Marcelo
del Pilar
- He became associate with Jaena and del Pilar. The three of them later on came to be called
Triumvirate of the Propaganda Movement.
- He learned that his fellow expatriates had formed the Circulo Hispano-Filipino. The group knew
about Rizal’s skills in writing, so he was asked to contribute a few lines to the review published
by the club. He made a poem entitled Mi Piden Versos, they asked me for verses in English.

Rizal Joined Masonry

- Rizal got exposed to liberal ideas and to the value of freedom of an individual when it comes to
religion and expression. He was overhwlemed by their progressive ideas o politics, government,
and religion.
- Rizal then became a Master Mason in Lodge Solidaridad on November 15, 1890.

Rizals affair in Consuelo

- She fall inlove with him

Rizal’s Toast to Luna and Hidalgo

- A banquet was tendered at the Café Ingles on june 25, 1884 because his two expatriates, Juan
Luna and Felix Hidalgo emerged winners in 1884 Madrid Exposition.
- Luna won gold medal for his painting Spoliarium and Hidalgo won a silver medal for his entry,
Christian Virgins Exposed to Populace.
- During their celebration, rizal delivered a speech called brindis. He stressed the idea that genius
knows no race. The speech itsekf can be considered I direct attack and challenge to the Spanish
regime.

Dona teodora

- In her letter to rizal, she advised him to refrain from writing articlesthat might offend and friars
and the regime; and that he should not fail in his duties as Christian.
- Finally she warned him not to continue to pursuing further studies since she had that fear that is
could cause him death later..

Rizal responded- Life can’t be without any sorrow

- Misfortunes are welcomed when they can avert debasement and degradation.
- Conscince has to decide whether to submit or perish in the society where a person is born.
- People have to put their trust in God in the sincerity of their purpose. letf