CHAPTER 10:

FIRST
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Decision to Return Home

After 5 years of his memorable sojourn in Europe,
Rizal returned to the Philippines.
However, Rizal was warned by the following not to
return to the Philippines because his Noli Me Tangere
angered the friars:
o Paciano- Rizals adviser and only brother
o Silvestre Ubaldo- Rizals brother in law; husband of Olimpia
o Jose M. Cecilio (Chenggoy)- One of Rizals closest friends

Decision to Return Home

Rizal was determined to come back to the Philippines
for the following reasons:
To operate his mothers eyes
2. To serve his people who had long been oppressed by Spanish
tyrants
3. To find out for himself how the Noli and his other writings were
affecting Filipinos and Spaniards in the Philippines
4. To inquire why Leonora Rivera remained silent
BLUMENTRITT TO RIZAL- Live in Madrid and continue to
write from there
1.

Delightful Trip to Manila

Rizal left Rome by train for

Marseilles, a French port and boarded
Djemnah, the same steamer which
brought him to Europe 5 years ago.
There were 50 passengers: 4
Englishmen, 2 Germans, 3 Chinese, 2
Japanese, many Frenchmen, and 1
Filipino (Rizal)
At Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam- he
transferred to steamer Haiphong
(Manila-bound)

Arrival in Manila

Stayed in the City for a short time to visit

his friends

Found Manila the same as when he left 5

years ago

Happy Homecoming

August 8, 1887- Rizal returned to

Calamba
In Calamba, Rizal established a medical
clinic.
o Rizal, was called Doctor Uliman because he
came from Germany

Rizal opened a gymnasium for young folks,

where he introduced European sports

Rizal suffered one failure during his six

months of sojourn in Calambahis failure

to see Leonor Rivera

Storm over the Noli

Governor General Emilio

Terrero- wrote to Rizal
requesting to come to
Malacaang Palace
o Somebody had whispered to Govenor

that the Noli contains subversive ideas

o Rizal explained to him that he merely
exposed the truth, but did not advocate
subversive ideas
o He was pleased by Rizals explanation
and curious about the book, he asked
for a copy of the novel.

Storm over the Noli

Rizal visited the Jesuit fathers to
ask for the copy he sent them.
He was gladly welcomed by the
following friars:

Fr. Francisco de
Paula Sanchez

1. Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez

2. Fr. Jose Bech
3. Fr. Federico Faura- told Rizal that

everything in the novel was the truth

and warned him that he may lose his
head because of it

Fr. Federico Faura

Storm over the Noli

Don Jose Taviel de Andrade

A young Spanish lieutenant from a

noble family
He was cultured and knew
painting
He could speak French, English
and Spanish.
A bodyguard assigned by
Governor General Terrero for
Rizal for security measures

Storm over the Noli

Msgr. Pedro Payo (Dominican)

Sent a copy of the Noli to Fr. Rector Gregorio
Echavarria of the UST for examination by a
committee of the faculty (Dominican professors)
Report stated that the Noli was heretical, impious,
and scandalous in the religious order and antipatriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the
government of Spain and its function in the Philippine
Islands in the political order.

Storm over the Noli

Governor General was dissatisfied by the report (Dominicans were prejudice

against Rizal)
o sent the novel to the Permanent Commission of Censorship composed of
priests and laymen
o Fr. Salvador Font- Augustinian cura of Tondo and head of the commission
o The group found that the novel contain subversive ideas against the Church
and Spain and recommended that the importation, reproduction and circulation
of the pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited.
o The newspaper published Fonts written report
o The banning of the Noli Me Tangere only made it popular
o Hated by Spanish masters but the mass liked it very much
o Price per copy was 5 pesetas (=1 peso) but later rose to 50 pesos per copy

Attackers of the Noli

Fr. Salvador Font (Printed his report and distributed copies
to discredit the controversial novel)
2. Fr. Jose Rodriguez- prior of Guadalupe (published a series
of eight pamphlets under Cuestiones de Sumo Interest to
blast the Noli)
1.

Why should I not read them?

Beware of them, Why?
And what can you tell me of the plague?
Why do the impious triumph?
Do you think there is really no purgatory?
Is there or is there no hell?
Confession or damnation?

Defenders of the Noli

Marcelo H. del Pilar, Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor,

Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce and other
Filipino reformists
Fr. Sanchez- defended and praised it in public
Don Segismundo Moret (Former Minister of
crown)
Dr, Miguel Morayta- historian and statesman
Prof. Blumentritt- scholar and educator, read and
liked the novel

Defenders of the Noli

Rev. Vicente Garcia

priest-scholar of Manila Cathedral, under the penname Justo

Desiderio Magalang
Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by Thomas
Kempis
Wrote a defense of the Noli published in Singapore blasted the
arguments of Fr. Rodriguez as follows:

1. Rizal cannot become an ignorant man.

2. Rizal did not attack the Church and Spain.
3. Fr. Rodriguez said that those who read the Noli commit, a
mortal sin: since he read the novel, therefore he also commits a
mortal sin.

Rizal and Taviel de Andrade

Rizal was refined, educated, and gentlemanly. The hobbies that most interested him were hunting,

fencing, shooting, painting, and hiking.

Marred Rizals happy days in Calamba:
1. The death of Olimpia
2. The groundless tales circulated by his by his enemies
Calambas Agrarian Trouble:

Findings of Rizal which the tenants signed and three

officials:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The Dominicans owned the town of Calamba

Arbitrary increase of land rentals
Owners never contributed for the celebration of the town fiests, education, and improvement of agriculture
Tenants were dispossessed of lands for flimsy grounds
High rates were collected

Farewell to Calamba

Rizals exposure of the deplorable conditions of tenancy in Calamba

infuriated his enemy.
Friars exerted pressure on Malacanan Palace to eliminate him.
Friars asked Governor General Terrero to deport him
The General refused due to no valid charges against him

Threat letters to Rizals life appeared to his parents.

His parents, relatives, and friends advised him to go away

Farewell to Calamba

Governor General Terrero advised Rizal to leave the Philippines

Gave Rizal a chance to escape from the friars

Rizals reason to leave Calamba

His presence in Calamba affected the lives of his family and
friends
His writing efficacy will be improve in foreign countries.

A Poem for Lipa

His Friend Lipa requested Rizal to write a poem in

commemoration of the towns elevation of the towns
elevation to a city by virtue of the Becerra law of 1888
Rizal wrote the poem called Himno Al Trabajo( Hymn to
Labor) which is dedicated to the folks of Lipa before his
departure from Calamba

CHAPTER 11
Trip
to
Hongkong
and
Macao

Rizal Leaving the

philippines
for the second time
Hounded by powerful enemies, Rizal
was forced to leave his country for the
second time in 1888
He was 27 years old, a practicing
physician, and a recognized man of letters.
After six monthsof staying in the
philippines Rizal left via streamer Zafiro
bound ro Hong Kong

Amoy The first stop over of the ship

Rizal did not get

off the ship for
the following
reasons:
He was not feeling
well
It was raining hard
He heard that the
city is dirty

HONG KONG
- A British colony
Rizal stayed in
Victoria Hotel
He met:
Jose Maria Basa
Balbino Mauricio
Manuel Yriarte
(Son of alcalde mayor
in Calamba)

HONG KONG

According to Rizal in his letter to Blumentritt, is a

small, but very clean city.
Many Portugesse, Hindus, English, Chinese and
Jews
There are some Filipinos exiled in Marianas
Islands since 1872, they were former financiers
and rich but now poor, gentle and timid
A spaniard, Jose Sainz de Varanda, shadowed
Rizals movement in Hong Kong, It is believed
that he was commissioned by the spanish
authorities to spy on Rizal.

MACAU

A Portuguese
colony near Hong
Kong.
Rizal Together with
Basa boarded a
ferry named
Kiu Kiang
Going to Macau.

MACAU

He was surprised to see among the

passengers a familiar figure- Jose
Sainz de Varanda
Don Juan Francisco Lecaros- a Filipino
gentleman who is married to a
Portuguese lady. He was rich and
spent his days cultivating plants and
flowers.
Rizal and Basa stayed in his house for
two days while they were in Macau.

During his two-day sojourn, Rizal

visited the theatre, casino, cathedral,
and churches, pagodas, botanical
garden, and bazaars, he also saw the
famous Grotto of Camoens, Portugals
national poet.
He witnessed a Catholic procession,
in which the devotees were dressed
in blue and purple dresses and were
carrying unlighted candles.
Rizal and Basa returned to Hongkong,
again on board the ferry steamer Kiu
Kiang.

GROTTO OF CAMOENS

1.

During Rizals two week vacation

in Hongkong, he studied Chinese
life, language, drama and
customs and found out the
following which he wrote in his
diary:
Noisy celebration of the Chinese
New Year which lasted from
February 11th (Saturday) to 13th
(Monday). Continuous explosions
of firecrackers. The richer the
Chinese, the more firecracker he
exploded.

2. Boisterous Chinese theatre, with noisy

audience and noisier music. In the
Chinese dramatic art, Rizal observed the
following:
a) A man astride a stick means a man riding a
b)
c)
d)

e)

horseback.
An actor rising his legs means he is
entering a house.
A red dress indicates a wedding.
A girl about to be married coyly covers her
face with a fan even in the presence of his
fiance.
A man raising a whip signifies he is about
to ride a horse.

3. The Marathon Lauriat party, the longest

meal in the world. Wherein the guests were
served numerous dishes, such as dried
fruits, geese, shrimps, century eggs, shark
fins, bird nests, white ducks, chicken with
vinegar, fish heads, roasted pigs, tea, etc.
4. The Dominican Order was the richest
religious order in Hongkong. It engaged
actively in business. It owned more than
700 houses for rent and many shares in
foreign banks. It had millions of dollars
deposited in banks which earned fabulous
interest.

5. of the Hongkong cemeteries

belonging to the Protestants,
Catholics, and Muslims, that of the
Protestants was the most beautiful
because of its well groomed-plants
and clean pathways. The Catholic
cemetery was most pampous, with its
ornate and expensive mausoleums and
extravagantly carved sepulchers. The
Muslim cemetery was the simplest,
containing only a little mosque and
tombstone with Arabic inscription.

DEPARTURE FROM
HONGKONG
February 22, 1888- Rizal
left Hongkong
Oceanic- an American steamer,
His destination was Japan
He did not like the meals on board,
But he liked the ship because it was
Clean and efficiently managed.
His cabin mate was a British
Protestant missionary who had lives
In China for 27 years Rizal called him
a good man.

THE END