RIZAL SAILS

TO SPAIN
FOR CUBA
Chapter 20, Pg. 229 - 230
September
3, 1896
• Rizal boarded the steamer Isla de
Panay, which shall ferry him to
Barcelona, Spain
Rizal wrote • I urge you to take care of, to serve and
to love our parents, as you would your
his sisters children later to take care of, serve,
and love you in your old age. May you

At Bay,
live united and forgive one another’s
asperities ans slight faults – the
September natural thorns of life – because it is

2,1875 displeasure for parents to see that

their children are not living in
harmony. Afterwards, when our
parents are dead, we shall miss them
greatly and we shall be sorry for not
having served then while they lived.
October 3, • Rizal reached Barcelona. He was
heavily guarded and detained as a
1896 prisoner at the steamer Isa de Panay.

October 6,
1896 • He was informed that he would be
3:00am taken to Fort Monjuich, the prison
citadel of the city.
 Upon • General Despujol , the governor
general who decreed his deportation to
arriving at Dapitan, told Rizal that he would be
the fort shipped back to the Philippines on
board the ship Colon
 The • Rizal could have not suffered this fate if
only he listened to the suggestion of
suggestion Don Pedro Roxas, a fellow passenger at
of Don Isla de Panay.

Pedro Roxas
• Don Pedro advised him to take
advantage of the protection of the
British law, while their ship was
temporarily docked in Singapore.
 Rizal’s • Learned of what happened to him and
decided to come to his rescue
friends in
Europe • Regidor and Lopez transmitted
telegrams to an English lawyer in
Singapore, Hugh Fort to rescue Rizal by
means of writ of habeas corpus

• Writ of habeas corpus – to detain or imprison an

individual without further evidence or charge against.
November 3, • Under tight secrurity, Rizal was
brought and incarcerated at Fort
1896 Santiago