Rizal in Dapitan

POINTS TOTALK ABOUT

1. The reason why Rizal exiled in Dapitan

2. Rizal’s activities during his stay in Dapitan

3. Rizal’s attitude as a way of facing our stops in life

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June 26, 1892 – Rizal returned to Manila and was declared as an
I enemy of the state because of his novels

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July 03, 1892 – Rizal and his friends established La Liga Filipina in
L Doreteo Ongjunco’s house located in Tondo Manila
I
N July 06-07, 1892 – Rizal was arrested and Governor Despujol issue a
decree deporting Rizal to “one of the island in the South”.
E REASON: Anti-friar pamphlets (Pobres de Frailes) and anti-Catholic
writings and creation of La Liga Filipina

July 17, 1892 – July 31, 1896 – Rizal began his exile in lonely Dapitan,
a period of 4 years.
After his arrest, Rizal was deported to
Dapitan, a province in Zamboanga, a place
far from his family and friends so that
communication with them would be
difficult. Further, the Spanish authorities
believed that sending Rizal to Dapitan
would make his life miserable. However,
Rizal proved them wrong. In fact, being an
exile was considered a very fruitful episode
of his life.
CASA RESIDENCIA
CASA QUADRADA
CASA REDONDA
Rizal focused on serving the people and society through his
civic works, medical practices, agricultural projects, and
education. He also devoted his time to improving his
artistic and literary skills.
 PRACTICE MEDICINE

✔ Establish a clinic
✔ He operated his mother’s
cataract for the third time
✔ He studied local medicine He
offered free medicine for the
underprivileged.
 BECAME EDUCATOR

✔ Establish a school – no tuition fee but

made students help in his projects,
farms and garden.
✔ Rizal conducted his classes under a
Talisay tree.
✔ Reading, writing, languages,
geography, history, math, industrial
work, nature studies, morals and
gymnastics
 COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN DAPITAN

✔ Constructing the town’s first

water system
✔ Drained marshes to get rid of
malaria
✔ Equip the town with it’s lighting
system – this lighting system
✔ Beautification of Dapitan
consisted of coconut oil – remodeled the town plaza in
order to enhance it’s beauty
 RIZAL’S INVENTIONS

✔ Cigarette lighter which he sent as a

gift to Blumentritt.

✔ Invented a machine that increase the

production of bricks
 RIZAL’S SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES

✔ Most significant contribution in

the scientific world was his
discovery of three species:
▪ Draco Rizali – flying dragon
▪ Apogonia Rizali – small beetle
▪ Rhacaphorus Rizali – rare frog
 RIZAL AS A FARMER AND BUSINESSMAN

✔ bought 16 hectares of land – he planted cacaos, coffee,

sugarcane, coconuts
✔ Fishing, copra, and hemp industry
✔ Hemp industry was Rizal’s most profitable business.
HAD A ROMANCE WITH JOSEPHINE BRACKEN

1. Rizal and Josephine Bracken decided to get married but

Father Obach refused to marry them without the permission of
Bishop of Cebu. So, they married themselves before the eyes of
the God. (COMMON LAW MARRIAGE - a relationship between a
man and a woman who live exclusively with each other just like a
husband and wife without the benefit of marriage or when the
RIZAL AND THE KATIPUNAN
Dr. Pio Valenzuela was sent as an emissary by Andres
Bonifacio, the leader of the Katipunan, to seek Rizal's
opinion and approval of an armed rebellion against the
Spanish authorities.

At first, Rizal was out rightly opposed to the idea of an

armed rebellion. He believed that Filipinos were not yet
united and fully educated, and that the Katipunan lacked
the machinery to defeat the Spaniards. At this point, Rizal
was hoping for concessions and reforms from Spain. For him,
 AS A VOLUNTEER
MILITARY DOCTOR

When Cuba was under revolution

and raging yellow fever
epidemic, Rizal wrote to Governor Blanco later notified
Governor General Ramon Blanco Rizal of the acceptance of the
offering his services as a military offer.
doctor.
ADIOS DAPITAN!

JULY 31, 1896- Rizal’s four year

exile has ended
 “We study the problems of science
and the history of the nation.
We speak some three or four language;
faith and reason we span.
Our hands can wield at the same time
the knife, the pen and the spade,
the picket, the rifle, the sword –
companions of a brave man.”
- Himno a Talisay, Jose Rizal