RIZAL’S EXILE IN DAPITAN ( 1st slide)

 July 17, 1892 – Rizal, together with his guard Captain Ricardo Carnicero,
arrived in Dapitan.
 Rizal was given the choice to live in the house of the parish priest, Fr.
Antonio Obach or at Cornicero’s house.
 He could live in the priest’s quarter’s only if:
- He publicly retracted his Masonic and antichurch beliefs,
- He regularly participate in church rites,
- He conduct himself as a good Spanish subject and a man of religion.
 Rizal made him a bust and compose a poem in his honor A Don Ricardo
Cornicero on his birthday on August 16, 1892.

LIFE IN TALISAY (2nd slide)

 Both men betted on lottery and won 20,000 pesos with the lottery ticket
number 9736.
 He used his money to build an octagonal house made up of bamboo and
nipa in Talisay.
 Rizal built a school and accepted students with no tuition.
 The other part is used for his eye clinic.
 He also built a house for the ladies in his family who were free to visit him
in Dapitan.
 Carnicero also wrote a letter to Governor General to allow his mother and
sisters to join him in Dapitan.

LIFE IN TALISAY (3rd slide)

 May 4, 1893 – Don Carnicero was replaced by Captain Juan Sitges.
 He did not want living with a deportee.
 He assign Rizal to live in a house near the headquarters.
 The Jesuits send his old professor at the Ateneo, Fr. Francisco de Paula
Sanchez, to entice him back to the Church.
 He help clean up the plaza of Dapitan and lit it up at night with coconut oil
lamps.
  Rizal fell inlove with the eighteen year old Josephine Bracken.

LIFE IN TALISAY (4th slide)

 Rizal and Josephine tried to have themselves married in Catholic rites but
Fr. Obach required that Rizal retract his beliefs.
 Rizal’s relatives and friends looked at Josephine with suspicion and
condescencion.
 Pablo Mercado – a spy of the friars who posed as Rizal’s relative ( Florencio
Namaan- his true name ).
 Pio Valenzuela - an emissary of Andres Bonifacio, he was aking for advice
on how to launch a revolution. He offered to have the Katipunan assist him
in escaping from Dapitan.
 Rizal objected to the projected revolution, the revolutionaries must have
enough arms and weapons.
THE END OF THE DAPITAN EXILE ( 5th slide)
 When Cuba was under revolution and raging yellow fever epidemic, Rizal
wrote to Governor General Ramon Blanco offering his service as a military
doctor.
 Governor General Ramon Blanco approved the request of Rizal on July 1,
1896.
 At the midnight of that day, he left aboard the steamer España.
 The townspeople of Dapitan wept because they considered Rizal as a good
son and neighbor.
 He stayed in Dapitan for four years, thirteen days and few hours.
(6th slide)
 August 6, 1896 – upon arriving in Manila Bay, Rizal was not able to leave
immediately for Spain since the vessel Isla de Luzon already left.
 He was transferred to Spanish cruiser Castilla and stayed their for a month
from August 6 to September 2, 1896.
 August 19, 1896 – the Katipunan plot to overthrow the Spanish rule by
means of revolution. It was discovered by Fr. Mariano Gil after Teodoro
Patino’s disclosure of organization’s secret.
  At that time, Katipunan was already discovered and the Philippine
Revolution was already raging.

(7th slide)
 August 26, 1896 – Bonifacio and Katipunan raised the Cry of Revolutiion
(Sigaw sa Pugadlawin) in the hills of Balintawak, a few miles North of
Manila.
 In the afternoon, Governor General Blanco proclaimed a state of war in the
first eight provinces for rising arms against Spain.
 Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and
Tarlac.
 Rizal received letters from Governor General Blanco which absolved him
from all the blame for the raging revolution.
 He transferred to Isla de Panay which which was sailing for Barcelona Spain.
 Don Pedro Roxas advised Rizal to stay and take advantage of the protection
of British Law.