RIZAL LIFE

IN
DAPITAN
RIZAL EXILE IN
DAPITAN
A remote town in Mindanao under the
missionary jurisdiction of the Jesuits.
He practiced medicine, scientific
studies, with his artistic and literary
works, widened hi language,
established school for boys, invented
a wooden machine for making bricks
and engaged in farming and
commerce.
 BEGINNING OF
EXILE IN DAPITAN
Steamer Cebu- which brought Rizal to
Dapitan carried a letter
Father Pablo Pastells- the Superior of
Jesuit Society in the Philippines.
Who wrote a letter to Father Antonio
Obach (Jesuit parish priest of
Dapitan)
Father Superior Pastells gave the conditions to Rizal
before he could live at convent:
He should apologize from the religion/church
publicly and state that he is Pro-Spanish.
He should perform church rites and make a
confession of his past life.
Lastly to conduct himself in an exemplary manner
a Spanish subject and a man of religion.

He did not agree.

He stayed with Capitan Carnicero
They had a good warm
friendly relationship, he was
given the freedom to go
anywhere reporting only once
a week at his office
Rizal wrote a poem for him
which entitled “A Don Ricardo
Carcinero” During the
captain’s birthday
 WINS IN MANILA
LOTTERY
On Sept. 21, 1892, the sleepy town of Dapitan burst in hectic
excitement when the mall boat Butuan was approaching.
Capitan Carnicero thought a high Spaniards official was coming.

Butuan brought no official but great news that lottery ticket no.
9736 jointly owned by Capitan Carnicero, Rizal and Francisco
Equilior won the second prize of 20,000 pesos in government
owned Manila lottery.

When Rizal received his share, 6,200 pesos, he gave 2,000

pesos to his father and 200 peos to Basa in Hongkong, the rest
he invested to an agricultural land along the coat of Talisay.
 RIZAL - PASTELLS
DEBATE ON REIGION
During Rizal’s exile, he had a long
and scholarly debate with father
Pastells on religion.

This interesting religious debate

maybe read in four letters
In spite of this, they remained good friends.
Pastells gave Rizal a copy of Imitaction de
Cristo (Imitation of Christ). In reciprocation,
Rizal gave him a bust of St. Paul which he
made.
 RIZAL CHALLENGES A
FRENCHMAN TO A DUEL
Rizal also became involved in a quarrel with Mr. Juan Lardet, a
businessman, who purchased logs from Rizal.

RIZAL AND FATHER

SANCHEZ
Father Pastells still did not stop from convincing Rizal’s belief
into religion and instructed two Jesuits to Father Obach and
Father Jose Villaclara to win him back.
 IDYLLIC LIFE IN DAPITAN
Rizal had an idyllic serenity.
Members of his family took turns in visiting him.

He lived by the seashore with many fruit trees. He had

rabbits, dogs and cats. He rose early to visit his palnts,
feed his chickens and awaken his people then eat
breakfast with them.

Then he treats his patients. After that, he teaches the boys

and devote the afternoon to agriculture. In the evening, he
spends the night reading and studying.
Replica of Dr. Jose Rizal’s house where he
spent most of his time while in exile in Dapitan
 RIZAL’S ENCOUNTER
WITH FRIAR’S SPY
A spy of the friars visited Rizal pretended to be a relative as
Pablo Mercado.

On investigation, the real name of the rascal is Florencio

Namanan and he was hired by the Friars to spy on Rizal’s
activities, letters and writings which might incriminate him in
the revolutionary movement.

Strangely, Sitges quashed the investigation and released the

spy.
 AS PHYSICIAN IN
DAPITAN
Rizal practised medicine in Dapitan
most of them were poor patient so
that he gave them free medicine

He operated on his mother’s right

eye
Some of his patients are:
Don Ignacio Tumarong - a rich Filipino paid
him 3,000 pesos

An Englishman paid 500 peos

Don Florencio Azacarraga - a rich hacendero

of Aklan paid him a cargo of sugar
Rizal became interested in local medicines and in
the use of medical plants.

He studied the medical plants of the

Philippines

For poor patients, he prescribed the local

medical plants
CONTRIBUTIONS
OF RIZAL
 WATER SYSTEM FOR DAPITAN
he applied his knowledge of engineering
by constructing a system of waterworks in
order to furnish clean water to the town people
in Dapitan.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOR DAPITAN
he spent many months draining the
marshes in order to get rid of malaria that
infested Dapitan. He knew that malaria is
spread by the mosquitos.
500 pesos (an English patient paid
him) was used to equip the town
with its lighting system

Coconut oil lamps placed in dark

street of Dapitan

Another community projects of

Rizal was the beautification of
Dapitan
 RIZAL AS TEACHER
Rizal’s exile gave him the opportunity to put into practice
his educational ideas.

He established a school which began with 3 pupils

and in the course of time increased to 16 and later to
21

Rizal taught his boys reading, writing, language

(English and Spanish), geography, history,
mathematics (arithmetic and geometry), industrial
work, nature study, morals and gymnastics
 HYMN TO TALISAY
Rizal conducted his
school at his home in
Talisay, near Dapitan
where he has farm ang
hospital.

Talisay tree
“Himno A Talisay” for
his pupils to sing
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO
SCIENCE
Rizal found Mindanao a rich
virgin field for collecting
specimens

With his baroto (sailboat) and

accompanied by his pupils, he
explored the jungles and coasts
seeking specimens of insects,
birds, snakes, lizards, frogs,
shells and plants
During his 4th year exile in
Dapitan, Rizal built up a rich
collection of concology which
consisted of 346 shells
representing 203 species

He discovered some rare

specimens which were named
in his honor by the scientist.
 Draco rizali
(flying dragon)
Apogonia rizali
(small beetle)
Rhacophorus rizali
(rare frog)
 LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Rizal continued his studies of languages

Bisayan, Subanum, Malay language

April 5, 1896 his last year of exile in Dapitan he wrote to

Blumentritt

22 language - tagalog, ilokano, bisayan, Subanum,

Spanish, Latin, Greek, English, French, German, Arabic,
Malay, Hebrew, Chinese, Sanskrit, Dutch, Catalan, Italian,
Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish and Russian.
 ARTISTIC WORKS IN
DAPITAN
He drew the three rare species of animal life

He modeled a statuette representing the mother dog killing

the crocodile, by way of avenging her lost puppy “the mother’s
revenge”
Other sculptural works of
Rizal in Dapitan were a bust
of Father Guerrico, a statue
of a girl called “The
Dapitan”. A carving of
Josephine Bracken. And a
bust of St. Paul which he
gave to Father Pastells.
 RIZAL AS A FARMER
He bought 16 hectares of land in Talisay

He introduced modern methods of agriculture which he

had observed in Europe and America.

He imported agricultural machinery from United States.

 RIZAL AS A
BUSINESSMAN
In partnership with Ramon Carreon, a
Dapitan merchant, he made
profitable ventures in fishing, copra
and hemp industries.

The most profitable business

venture of Rizal in Dapitan was in
the hemp industry.
He also formed business in lime
manufacturing.
 RIZAL’S INVENTIVE
ABILITY
Rizal invented a cigarette lighter which he sent as a gift to
Blumentritt which he called “sulpukan”
It was made of wood and its mechanism is based on the
principle of compressed air.

He invented a machine for making bricks that could

manufacture about 6,000 bricks daily.
 MY RETREAT
Rizal wrote a beautiful poem about
his serene life as an exile in Dapitan
and sent it to his mother.

“Mi Retiro”
One of the best ever penned by
Rizal according to literary critics.
 RIZAL AND JOSEPHINE
BRACKER
Josephine Bracken
an Irish girl of sweet eighteen
blue eyes dressed with elegant
simplicity
born in Hongkong on October 3,
1876
 RIZAL AND THE
KATIPUNAN
Andres Bonifacio, the “Great Plebeian”, was sowing the
seeds of an armed uprising. Katipunan, founded on July 7,
1892 was gaining more and more adherents.

Dr. Pio Valenzuela, was named emissary to Dapitan in order

to inform Rizal of the plan of Katipunan to launch a revolution
for freedom’s sake.
 VOLUNTEERS AS MILITARY
DOCTOR IN CUBA
Months before the Katipunan had contacted him, Rizal
had offered his services as military doctor in Cuba

It was Blumentritt who told him of the deplorable of the

health situation in war ridden Cuba and advised him to
volunteer as army physician there.
 THE SONG OF THE
TRAVELER
Rizal’s joy in receiving the gladsome news. At last, he
was free. Once more, he was going to travel Europe and
Cuba.

It was with joyous thought of resuming his travels he

wrote his heart warming poem “El Canto del Viajero”
 ADIOS, DAPITAN

July 31, 1896, his four year exile in Dapitan came to an

end.

Accompanied by Josephine, Narcisa, Angelica

(Narcisa’s daughter) he embarked the steamer
Espana.
Almost all Dapitan folks bid him goodbye, and the
town brass band strangely played the dolorous
Funeral March of Chopin.
THANK YOU
SO MUCH