CHAPTER 10

FIRST HOMECOMING, 1887--1888

JUNE 19, 1887

- a letter to blumentritt, it was written in Geneva

June 29, 1887

- Rizal wrote to his father announcing his homecoming

DECISION TO RETURN HOME

-Rizal was warned by

1. Paciano
2. Silvestre ubaldo ( his brother in law)
3. Chengoy ( Jose M. Cecilio )

FOUR REASON WHY JOSE DECIDE TO GO HOME

1. To operate his mother’s eyes

2. To serve his people who had been long opressed by spanish Tyrants
3. To find out for himself how the Noli and his other writings were affecting Filipinos
and Spanish in the Philippines
4. To inquire why leonor rivera remained silent
- July 03, 1887 -- boarded the steamer Djemnah

 The steamer was enroute to the orient via the Suez Canal
 July 30th
- At Saigon, he transferred to another steamer Haiphong which was manila-bond
 August 2
-this steamer left to manila

*ARRIVAL IN MANILA
 August 5
- the haiphong arrived in manila

 August 8
- he returned to calamba
-his famil welcomed him affectionately, with plentiful tears of joy

 IN CALAMBA - Rizal established Medical clinic

-- Rizal Called Doctor Uliman
-- Rizal was able to earn P900 as physician
-- By Feruary 1888, he earned P5000 as medical fees
--he opened gymnasium for young folks where introduced
european sports

 Rizal suffered one failure during his 6 months of sojourn in Calamba.

-- What Do you Think?

*STORM OVER THE NOLI

-- Rizal Received Letter from Governor General Emilio Terrero(1885-88)

--Rizal visited the Jesuit to ask the copy he sent them, but they would not part it

-- The jesuits people are

1. Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez
2. Fr. Jose Bech
3. Fr. Federion Faura
-- “Everything in it was truth, you may lose head for it “
--Don Jose Traviel de Andrade, as a bodyguard

 Msgr.Pedro Payo ( a dominician )

--- the Archbishop of manila
--sent a copy of the Noli

-- to father Recto Gregorio Echavarria of the university of Santo Tomas for

examination

-- To the Faculty
--Noli was

 Governor General Terrero

-- was dissatisfied with the report of the Dominicians
 He sent the novel to the Permanent Commission of censorship (committee
composed of priest and laymen
-- Fr.Salvador Font( Augustinian Cura of Todo)

-- Submitted to the Governor General on December 29

 Noli me tangere was become Famous

 Thanks to Governor General terrero, there were no mass imprisonment or mass
execution of filipinos.

*ATTACKERS OF THE NOLI

--The battles over the noli took the form of a virulent war of words
-- Father Font , printed his report and distributed copies of in it order to discredit the
controversial novel.

 Another Augustinian
-- Fr. Jose Rodriguez, prior of Guadalupe
-- “commit moral sin” who read the Noli Me tangere
-- Published Series of 8 Pamplets under the heading Cuestiones De sumo Interes
( Question Of supreme Interest)

These pamphlets copies of anti rizal was written by Fray Rodriguez

 It was fiercely attacked on the sessions hall of the states of the spanish Cortes by
various senators
1. General Jose De Salamanca on April 1, 1888
--was a Spanish nobleman, politician and businessman.
2. General Luis m. De Pando on april 12
-- was a Spanish general during the Spanish–American War, a Civil Governor of the Province of
Santiago, Cuba. 

3. Sr. Fernando Vida on June 11

--Anti Catholic, Protestant, Socialist in orientation And Learning

 Vicente Barrantes
--a Spanish academician, who formerly occupied a high government positions in the
Philippines, bitterly criticized the Noli in article published in La Moderma a
newspaper od madrid) in January 1890.
 DEFENDERS OF NOLI

 RIZAL AND TRAVIEL DE ANDRADE

 CALMBA AGRARIAN TROUBLE

 FAREWELL CALAMABA