WEEK 11

RIZAL CHOOSES TO STUDY IN LONDON

WITH THREE REASONS
• 1.TO IMPROVE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• 2. TO STUDY AND ANNOTATE MORGA'S SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS, A
RARE COPY OF WHICH HE HEARD TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
• 3. LONDON WAS A SAFE PLACE FOR HIM TO CARRY ON HIS FIGHT AGAINST
SPANISH TYRANNY.
 TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC

• THE TRANS-ATLANTIC VOYAGE OF RIZAL FROM NEW YORK TO

LIVERPOOL WAS A PLEASANT ONE. HE WAS ON BOARD "CITY OF
ROME". RIZAL ENTERTAINED THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
PASSENGERS WITH HIS MARVELOUS SKILLS WITH THE YO-YO AS
AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON. YOYO, A SMALL WOODEN DISC
ATTACHED TO A STRING FROM THE FINGER. ON MAY 24, 1888,
RIZAL ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. HE SPEND THE NIGHT
AT ADELPHI HOTEL WHILE STAYING FOR ONE DAY IN THIS PORT
CITY
RIZAL IN LONDON
 LIFE IN LONDON
• ON MAY 25, 1888, A DAY AFTER DOCKING
AT LIVERPOOL, RIZAL WENT TO LONDON.
HE STAYED AS GUEST AT THE HOME OF DR.
ANTONIO MA. REGIDOR, AN EXILE OF 1872
AND A PRACTICING LAWYER IN LONDON.
BY THE END OF MAY, RIZAL FOUND A
MODEST BOARDING PLACE AT NO. 37
CHALCOT CRESCENT, PRIMROSE HILL.
OWNED BY BECKETT FAMILY. MR. BECKETT
WAS AN ORGANIST OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
 BAD NEWS FROM HOME

• 1. PERSECUTION OF FILIPINO PATRIOTS WHO SIGNED "ANTI-FRIAR PETITION OF

1888"
• 2. PERSECUTION OF CALAMBA TENANTS, INCLUDING RIZAL'S FAMILY AND
RELATIVES, FOR THEIR PETITION ON AGRARIAN REFORMS
• 3. . FURIOUS ATTACKS ON RIZAL BY SENATORS SALAMANCA AND VIDA, AND BY
DESENGAÑOS
• 4. MANUEL HIDALGO, HUSBAND OF SATURNINA, WAS EXILED BY GOVERNOR
GENERAL WEYLER TO BOHOL W/O DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
• 5. LAUREANO VIADO, RIZAL'S FRIEND AND A MEDICAL STUDENT AT UST WAS
IMPRISONED BECAUSE COPIES OF THE NOLI WAS FOUND IN HIS HOUSE
 GOOD NEWS

• DEFENSE OF NOLI BY REV. VICENTE GARCIA, A FILIPINO CANON

OF THE MANILA CATHEDRAL. THE NEWS CAME FROM MARIANO
PONCE.
 SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS
(HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS)

• WHILE IN LONDON, RIZAL IMMEDIATELY

ACQUAINTED HIMSELF WITH THE BRITISH
MUSEUM WHERE HE FOUND ONE OF THE
FEW REMAINING COPIES OF THAT WORK.
AT HIS OWN EXPENSE, HE HAD THE
WORK REPUBLISHED WITH ANNOTATIONS
THAT SHOWED THE PHILIPPINES WAS AN
ADVANCED CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO THE
SPANISH CONQUEST
 WRITINGS IN LONDON

• RIZAL ALSO WROTE MANY ARTICLES FOR LA SOLIDARIDAD. FRAY RODRIGUEZ

ATTACKED HIS NOLI IN A SERIES OF LEAFLETS WITH TITLE “CUESTIONS DE
SUMO INTERES”. HE THEN WROTE A PAMPHLET ENTITLED “LA VISION DEL
FRAY RODRIGUEZ" 
•  RIZAL ALSO WROTE THE FAMOUS “LETTER TO THE YOUNG MALOLOS”. 
•  HE ALSO WROTE ARTICLES FOR THE TRUBNER’S RECORD, A JOURNAL
RELATED  TO ASIAN STUDIES WHEREIN HE CONTRIBUTED “TWO EASTERN
FABLES” AND “SPECIMENS OF TAGALA FOLKLORE”.
 ROMANCE WITH "GETTIE"

• GERTUDE BECKETT, THE ELDEST OF THE ‘THREE’ (SOME

SAY ‘FOUR’) BECKETT SISTERS.
•  GERTRUDE (ALSO CALLED ‘GETTIE’ OR ‘TOTTIE’) WAS A
CURVY LADY WITH CHEERFUL BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR,
ROSY CHEEKS, AND THIN LIPS.
• RIZAL CALLED HER “GETTIE”  AND SHE CALLED RIZAL AS
“PETTIE”
• HE COULD NOT MARRY GETTIE FOR HE HAS A MISSION TO
FULFILL IN LIFE. WITH IRON WILL, RIZAL SUPPRESSED THE
PASSIONATE YEARNING OF HIS HEART
RIZAL IN PARIS
AND THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION
 LIFE IN PARIS

• MOST HOTELS AND INNS WERE ALREADY FULLY BOOKED, EVEN BOARDING
HOUSES AND ROOMS FOR RENT. RIZAL FRESH FROM LONDON EXPERIENCED
SPINNING PARISIAN LIFE.
• HE STAYED IN A SMALL ROOM WITH TWO FILIPINOS- CAPITAN JUSTO
TRINIDAD, FORMER GOBERNADORCILLO OF STA. ANA, MANILA, AND JOSE
ALBERT, A YOUNG STUDENT FROM MANILA.
• HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME READING THE BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE AND
CHECKING UP ON HIS HISTORICAL ANNOTATIONS ON MORGA’S BOOK.
 KIDLAT CLUB

• TOWARDS THE END OF MARCH 1889, RIZAL ORGANIZED HIS

PAISANOS (COMPATRIOTS) INTO A SOCIETY CALLED “KIDLAT
CLUB”. 
• IT WAS A TEMPORARY SOCIAL CLUB WITH TEMPORARY NATURE
• SIMPLY TO BRING TOGETHER THE YOUNG FILIPINOS IN THE
CAPITAL SO THAT THEY COULD ENJOY THEIR SOJOURN IN THE
CITY DURING THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION.
 INDIOS BRAVOS

• RIZAL AND THE MEMBERS OF THE KIDLAT CLUB USUALLY WENT SIGHTSEEING
TRIPS. IN ONE OCCASION THEY SAW BUFFALO BILL’S TROUPE AND WERE
IMPRESSED BY THE AMERICAN INDIANS.
• RIZAL CAME TO A REALIZATION THAT THERE’S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF
BEING CALLED INDIOS 
• LET US BE LIKE THEM HE SAID. PROUD OF THE NAME INDIO AND MAKE OUR
SPANISH ENEMIES REVISE THEIR CONCEPTION OF THR TERM.
• THEN HE SAID, THEY SHALL BE “INDIOS BRAVOS”. 
 HIS WHITE CHRISTMAS

• ON DECEMBER 25, 1889, RIZAL AND JOSE ALBERT PLANNED TO HAVE A

DELIGHTFUL CHRISTMAS DINNER. 
• THE TWO PREPARED THE DINNER WITH FRIED CHICKEN, NUE AND VEGETABLES
• RIZAL GOT A GIFT FROM MRS. BECKETT A BOOK TITLED " A LIFE AND
ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX, THE VENTRILOQUIST"
• AFTER NEW YEAR, RIZAL VISITS LONDON TO COMPARE HIS WORK OF MORGA’S
SUCESOS WITH THE ORIGINAL COPY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
• HE ALSO WANTED TO VISIT GETTIE FOR THE LAST TIME
• HE MET BY ACCIDENT HIS FRIEND FROM TOKYO, TETCHO SUEHIRO
 SCULPTURAL WORKS

• 1. PROMETHEUS BOUND
• 2. THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH OVER LIFE
• 3. THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE OVER DEATH"
(HE GAVE BOTH THE TRIUMPH TO HIS
FRIEND, BLUMENTRITT)
• 4. A COMPOSITE CARVING OF THE HEADS
OF THE BECKETT SISTERS AS FAREWELL
GIFT TO THEM.
 ADIOS!
BY THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY, HE CAME BACK TO PARIS. 
HE THEN LEFT PARIS ON JANUARY 28 FOR BRUSSLES,
BELGIUM.
THANK
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