RIZAL’S HOMECOMING (1887-1888)

 Asearly as 1884, Rizal wanted to go back

to the Philippines for the following
reasons:
 Financial difficulties in Calamba
 Discontentment with his studies in
Madrid
 Desire to prove that there is no reason
to fear going home
 Belief that the Spanish regime will not
punish the innocent.
 Noli Me Tangere’s Publication- angered the
friars
 He was warned not to return to the Philippines by
the following persons:

 Paciano Mercado- Rizal’s adviser and only brother

 Silvestre Ubaldo- Rizal’s brothers in law; husband

of Olimpia

 Jose Ma. Cecillo (Chenggoy)- One of Rizal’s

closest friends
Reasons:
 Operate his mother’s eyes
 Serve his people who had long been
oppressed by Spanish tyrants.
 Inquire why Leonor Rivera remained
silent
 Find out himself how the Noli Me
Tangere and his other writings were
affecting Filipinos and Spaniards
Rizal wrote to his father,
announcing his homecoming:
“on the 15th of july, I shall
embark for our country, so that
from the 15th to the 30th of
August, we shall see each other”
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 • Rizal left Rome by train for Marseilles,
Departure a French port, which he reached
without accident.

July 3, • Rizal boarded in the steamer, the same

steamer which brought him to Europe
1887 5 years ago.

July 30, • at Saigon, Rizal transferred to another

steamer, Haiphong, Which was Manila
1887 Bounded

August 2,
1887 • the steamer left Saigon for Manila
 August 3, 1887
The moon was full and rizal slept soundly the whole night. The calm sea,
illuminated by the silvery moonlight, was a magnifivient sight to him.

August 6, 1887
The Haiphong arrived in Manila.

August 8, 1887
Rizal arrived in Calamba
oRizal established a medical clinic
Doña Teodora – was Rizal’s first
patient
Rizal treated her eyes but could not
perform any surgical operation because
her cataracts were not yet ripe.
o He painted several beautiful landscapes in
Calamba.
o He translated German poems of Von
Wildernath in Tagalog.
• Doctor Uliman – Rizal was called this
name because he came from Germany.
– He earned P900 in a few months and
P5,000 before he left the Philippines.
• Gymnasium – was opened by Rizal for
the young people
• He introduced European sports fencing
and shooting to discourage them from
cockfighting and gambling.
 An agent of Otto Von
German spy Bismarck- the liberator of
Germany

A protestant A mason

A soul halfway to
damnation
Olimpia Mercado- Ubaldo-
died because of child
birth

Leonor Rivera- rizal tried

to visit her in Tarlac but
his parents forbade him
to go because Leonor’s
mother did not like him
for a son-in- law
Rizal received a letter from Gov. Gen.
Emilio Terrero ( liberal minded) to come
to Malacanang.

Rizal visited the Jesuit father to ask for a

copy of Noli.

Gov-Gen emilio Terrero assigned Don Jose

Taviel de Andrade as body guard of Rizal

Fr. Salvador Font Sent a report that the

Noli contains subversive ideas against the
church and spain and he banned the Noli.
 Archbishop Pedro
Payo – a Dominican
 Archbishop of
Manila
 Sent a copy of the
Noli to Fr. Gregorio
Echevarria, Rector
of the University of
Santo Tomas to
examine the novel.
Noli
Me Tangere were examined by
Dominican professors at UST
Heretical
Impious and scandalous in the
religious orders
Anti-patriotic
Subversive of public orders
Injurious to the government of Spain
and its function in the philippine
Islands in the political order.
 Governor-General Terrero sent the
novel to Permanent Commission of
Censorship
 Fr. Salvador Font- an Augustinian friar
curate of Tondo who was the head of
the commission.
Reason: Noli’s further
examination for Gen. Terrero is
not satisfisfying.
 It is Recommended
The novel against to prohibit the
contains the importation,
church reproduction
subversive and circulation
ideas. and of the book
Spain.
 Fr.Jose Rodriguez – Augustinian Prior of
Guadalupe
 Published a series of eight pamphlets
under the heading Questions of
Supreme Interest to blast the Noli
and other anti-Spanish writing.
 Copies of anti-Rizal pamphlets were
sold after mass
 Many Filipinos were forced to buy
them in order not to displease the
friars.
• The novel was fiercely attacked in the session
hall of the Senate of the Spanish Cortes.
• Senators:
– General Jose de Salamanca
– General Luis de Pando
– Sr. Fernando Vida

• Vicente Barantes – Spanish academician of

Madrid who formerly occupied high government
position in the Philippines bitterly criticized
the novel in an article published in the Madrid
newspaper, La España Moderna
 PROPAGANDIST:
Marcelo H. Del Pilar; Fr. Francisco
Mariano Ponce ;
Antonio Ma. Regidor; Sanchez
Mariano Ponce

Don
Fr. Vicente
Segismundo
Garcia
Moret

Prof.
Prof . Miguel
Ferdinand
Morayta
Blumentritt
 Defenders

 Rushedto uphold the truths about the Noli Me

Tangere

Mariano Marceo H. Del

Ponce Pilar
Defenders
Defenders

A Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian

of the Manila Cathedral and a Tagalog
translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by
Thomas Kempis.
 Under the pen name Justo Desiderio Magalang he
wrote a defense of the novel published in
Singapore.
 Defenders

• former Minister of the Crown.

 Defenders

 Rizal’s History Professor

 Defenders

Rizal’s best friend

He himself defended his novel against
Barrantes’ attack in a letter written in
Brussels, Belgium in February 1880.
• Because of the interest of both enemies
and protectors of the Noli Me Tangere
the price of the book increased from 5
pesetas per copy to 50 pesetas per
copy.
• Rizal cried because of his gratitude to
his defenders especially to Fr. Garcia
who defended him unexpectedly.
The friars asked Governor
General Terrero to deport him,
but latter refused because there
was no valid charge against Rizal.
He was compelled to leave.
1. His presence was jeopardizing the
safety and happiness of his family and
friends.

2. He could fight better his enemies

and serve his country’s cause with
greater efficacy by writing in foreign
countries.
 Poem Written by Rizal dedicated to the
industrious folks of Lipa.

 Writtenas it was requested by his friend

for commemoration of the town’s
elevation to a villa (city) by virtue of the
Becerra Law of 1888.
Feb 3, 1888- Rizal left his
country with a heavy heart.
He was not successful to see
Leonor Rivera
Next travel is at Hongkong
PREPARED
BY:
MARCELO,
NITA B.

THANK
YOU!!