In Biñan and Manila

• •Paciano brought Jose to the nearby town, Biñan, to

attend the school of Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz.
• •Don Francisco sent Jose to Manila in June 1872 to
enroll in Ateneo Municipal.
• •From 1877 to 1882, Rizal studied in University of Santo
Tomas, enrolling in the course on Philosophy in Letters,
but shifted to Medicine a year after.
• •His landlord-uncle in one of the boarding house where
he lived was Antonio Rivera. Rivera had a daughter
named Leonor that became Jose's sweetheart.
 In Europe
• •Rizal stopped attending class at UST in 1882.
• •On May3 of that year, he left for Spain to complete
his studies. It is considered as 'secret departure'.
• •On his way to Madrid, he had many stop-overs:
-He visited the town of Singapore
-He passed through Punta de Gales, Colombo, and
Aden
-He also went across the waterway of Suez Canal and
visited the Italian city of Naples, and went to Barcelona
• •Rizal left Barcelona for Madrid and enrolled Medicine and Philosophy & Letters at
Universidad Central de Madrid on November 3, 1882
• •In Rizal’s letter dated February 13, 1883, he informed Paciano of his meeting with other
Filipinos: “The Tuesday of the Carnival we had a Filipino luncheon and dinner in the house of
the Paternos, each one contributing one ‘duro’. We ate with our hands, boiled rice, chicken
adobo, fried fish and roast pig.”
• •Rizal became penniless as his family encountered economic regression.
• •He attended the feast held in honor of two award-winning Filipino painters, Juan Luna and
Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. In the occasion, he delivered a daring liberal speech which
became so controversial. Perhaps, being broke and hungry could really make one braver and
more impulsive.
• •In 1885, Rizal who had finished his two courses in Madrid went to Paris, France. From
November, 1885 to February, 1886, he worked as an assistant to the celebrated
ophthalmologist, Dr. Louis de Weckert.
• •In February 3, 1886, he left Paris for Heidelberg, Germany. He attended lectures and training
at the University of Heidelberg where he is said to have completed his eye specialization.
• •Afterward, Rizal settled for three months in the nearby village,
Wilhemsfeld, at the pastoral house of a Protestant pastor, Dr. Karl
Ullmer.
• •Jose traveled next to Leipzig and attended some lectures at its
university.
• •Having reached Dresden afterward, he met and befriended Dr.
Adolph B. Meyer, the Director of the Anthropological and
Ethnological Museum.
• •In November 1886, he went to Berlin and further enhanced his
skills and knowledge in ophthalmology.
• •On February 21, 1887, he finished his first novel and it came off
the press a month later.