Rizal’s first

Homecoming
(1887-1888)
Grand Tour of
Rizal with
Viola
• Visited Blumentritt at Leitmeritz from May
13-17, 1887
• Brunn and Prague
• Vienna, Lintz and Salzburg in Austria
• Munich and Ulm Germany
• Switzerland
• Milan, Venice and Rome before he boarded
Djemnah in Marseilles, France bound for
the Philippines
Rizal’s decision to come back home in 1884
• Financial difficulties in Calamba
• Dissatisfaction with his studies • Review Question:
in Madrid
Why did Rizal delay his
• Desire to prove that there is no homecoming in 1884?
reason to fear going home
• The Spanish will not punish the
innocent
Decision to Come Home in 1887
• After 5 years, Rizal returned to
the Philippines despite being
warned by Paciano, Silvestre
Ubaldo (husband of Olimpia)
and Jose Ma. Cecilio
(Chenggoy), Rizal’s closest
friend not to come home
because of his Noli Me Tangere.
Rizal’s reasons for coming back
• To operate on his mother’s eyes
• To serve his people who had
long been oppressed by Spanish
tyrants
• To find out the effects of Noli Me
Tangere and his other writings
• To inquire why Leonor remained
silent
• Rizal left Marseilles and boarded Djemnah, the same streamer that brought him to Europe 5 years
ago.
• There were 50 passengers: 4 Englishmen, 2 Germans, 3 Chinese, 2 Japanese, 40 French and 1
Filipino
• The ship reached Aden before it proceeded to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam where transferred
to Haiphong, another streamer that brought him to Manila. Rizal arrived in Manila on August 6.
Rizal’s reasons for coming back
• To operate on his mother’s eyes
• To serve his people who had
long been oppressed by Spanish
tyrants
• To find out the effects of Noli Me
Tangere and his other writings
• To inquire why Leonor remained
silent
 Rizal in Calamba
• Rizal established a medical • Rizal opened a gymnasium
clinic. He was able to treat and introduced sports such
her mother’s cataract, a as fencing, shooting, and
feat that the townsfolk gymnastics to discourage
considered as miraculous. gambling and cockfighting.
• Dr. Rizal was called Dr.
Uliman. He earned P900 in
a few month and 5000
before he went abroad.
 Sad Moments while Rizal was in Calamba

• Rizal was
unable to see
Leonor Rivera

• Olimpia Mercado-Ubaldo
died of complications
from childbirth
Furor Over the Noli Me Tangere
• Gov-Gen. Emilio Terrero asked
Rizal to report to Malacanan
due to seditious ideas
advocated in the Noli.
• He asked for a copy of the Noli.
• Fathers Francisco de Paula
Sanchez, Frederico Paula, Jose
Bech refused to lend Rizal the
book for he might lose head.
Furor Over the Noli Me Tangere
• Gov-gen. Terrero assigned Lt.
Jose Taviel de Andrade to
watch over Rizal. He found
nothing wrong with the novel
after reading it.
• Jose Taviel and Rizal became
friends as they have common
views and interest
 • Pedro Payo, the Archbishop of
Attackers of the Noli Manila, sent a copy to the
Rector of UST, Fr. Gregorio
Echavarria. Echavarria formed
a committee to review the
book.
• Findings of the Committee:
“heretical, impious, scandalous
in the religious orders and anti-
patriotic, subversive of public
order, injurious to the govt of
Spain and its function in the
Phil. Islands in the political
order.
Attackers of the Noli
• Terrero referred the novel to the Permanent Commission on
Censorship headed by Fr. Salvador Font. The friar recommended
the prohibition of the importation, reproduction and distribution
of the Noli.
• The original price of the novel was 5 pesetas as of June 13, 1887,
at the height of the controversy, it sold at 50 pesos each.
• Fr. Jose Rodriguez, an Augustinian friar, wrote a series of 8
pamphlets entitle Caingat Cayo, where he warned people that
they were committing a mortal sin when they read it.
Attackers of the Noli
• Terrero referred the novel to the Permanent Commission on
Censorship headed by Fr. Salvador Font. The friar recommended
the prohibition of the importation, reproduction and distribution
of the Noli.
• The original price of the novel was 5 pesetas as of June 13, 1887,
at the height of the controversy, it sold at 50 pesos each.
• Fr. Jose Rodriguez, an Augustinian friar, wrote a series of 8
pamphlets entitle Caingat Cayo, where he warned people that
they were committing a mortal sin when they read it.
Attackers of the Noli
• Senators who attacked Noli in the
Spanish Cortes included Gen. Jose
de Salamanca, Gen. Luis de Pando,
and Sr. Fernando Vida.
• Vicente Barantes, a Spanish
academician of Madrid and
formerly occupied a high govt
position in the Phils. Bitterly
criticized the novel in an article
published in España Moderna in
1890.
Defenders of Noli
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar wrote a
pamphlet titled Caiigat Cayo in
response to Fr. Rodriguez’s attack.
• Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez
defended and praise the Noli in
public.
• Fr. Vicente Garcia, under the pen
name Justo Desiderio Magalang,
wrote a defense of Noli which was
published in Singapore.
• Don Segismundo Moret –
former minister of the
colonies during the liberal
episode in Spain in 1868.
• Prof. Miguel Morayta, a
historian and statesman
• Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt –
Rizal’s bestfried.
The Protesta de Calamba
• Gov-gen Emilio Terrero ordered the investigation of the friar
landholdings to remedy the inequities during that time.
• Rizal’s charges included:
1.Tenants were losing money due to the undue advantage of the
Dominican Order.
2.Dominican landholdings include the whole town, not only
Calamba, including the houses of people.
3.Dominicans increased their income by arbitrarily increasing the
rent of the tenants.
The Protesta de Calamba
• Rizal’s charges included:
4. Dominican owners of the hacienda did not contribute a single
centavo to the town fiesta.
5. Tenants who worked for clearing the lands were dispossessed of
such lands on flimsy grounds.
6. High rates were charged for the late payment of rentals and if
rentals were not paid, the management of hacienda confiscate
the carabaos, tools and houses of the tenants.
The Protesta de
Calamba
• Dominican Order
controlled the hacienda
of Calamba, including
the neighboring towns
of San Pedro, Sta. Rosa,
Binan, extending to Los
Banos.
• The rent earned from
the lands are used to
maintain churches and
the UST.
Reasons why Rizal left Philippines for the
2nd time
• His presence in Calamba was jeopardizing the safety and
happiness of his family and friends.
• He could not fight his enemies better and serve his country’s
cause with greater efficacy by writing in foreign countries.
• On February 3, 1888, Rizal left the Philippines for his own good
and for the safety of his family and friends.
• Rizal boarded Don Juan where he met Perfecto Rufino Riego
whom he persuaded to smuggle more copies of the Noli.
Rizal’s Second Sojourn
Abroad (1888-1892)
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