RIZAL’S FIRST HOMECOMING

1887-1888
 Decision to Return Home
• Rizal was warned by the following person
• Paciano
• Silvestre Ubaldo
• Chengoy (Jose M. Cecilio)
• Rizal was determined to return to the
Philippines for the following reasons:
• To operates on his mother’s eye’s
• To serve his people who had long been
oppressed by the spanish tyrants.
 • To find out for himself how the Noli and
his other writings were affecting the
Filipinos and Spaniards in the Philippines
• To inquire why Leonor Rivera remained
silent.

• June 29, 1887- In Rome, Rizal wrote

to his father announcing his
homecoming.
 Delightful Trip to Manila
• July 3, 1887- he boarded the streamer Djemnah.
• There were 50 passengers including,
Englishmen, Germans, Japanese, many
Frenchmen and Rizal as only 1 Filipino.
• Arrival in Manila
• On August 5, The streamer Haiphong whom
Rizal transfered to arrived in Manila and he
found out was still the same as when he left
it 5 years ago.
 Happy Homecoming
• On august 8, he returned to Calamba, his
family welcomed him affectionally.
• Paciano did not leave him to protect him from
any enemy assault.
• In Calamba, Rizal established a Medical Clinic.
• He opened a gymnasium for the young people
and introduced the European sports of fencing
and shooting.
• He was called to Malacañang by Gov. Gen.
Emilio Terrero due to the controversy raised by
Noli Me Tangere. The first copies had arrived
in Manila.
• After a review of the Noli Me Tangere, it was
found out that the book was subversive and
injurious to the government of spain.
• The novel reached Spain and was the subject
of the debate in the Senate of Spanish Cortes
– Vicente Barrantes who fiercely attacked the novel.
– Fr. Jose Rodriguez directly attacked the Noli by
writing an article or pamphlet in Singapore
• On the other hand, the Noli was gallantly
defended by Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Dr. Antonio
Ma. Regidor, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano
Ponce, And other Filipino Reformist
• Rev. Vicente Garcia
– Best defender of the Noli

1. Rizal cannot be an “Ignorant man” as Fr.

Rodriguez alleged.
2. Rizal does not attack the Church and Spain, as
Fr. Rodriguez claimed
3. Fr. Rodriguez said that those who read the Noli
commit a moral sin, since he ha read the novel,
therefore, he also commits a moral sin.
• Governor-General Terrero assigned Lt. Jose
Taviel de Andrade to protect Jose Rizal.
• A persistence rumour widely spreading fast
that he was a German spy, a Protestant, a
Mason.
• Emilio Terrero ordered an investigation of the
friars landholdings. Rizal was involved in the
investigation on the Calamba problem by
helping to draft an informative report on the
agrarian situation in Calamba.
• Governor-General Terrero requested Jose Rizal
to leave the country.
• He decided to go thinking further that he
could serve his country’s cause by being alive
and writing in foreign countries.