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Chapter 11 - Back To Calamba

Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1887 after publishing Noli Me Tangere. He practiced medicine in Calamba and had a successful operation on his mother's eyes. However, his enemies who resented the novel persecuted him. Despite finding some success and happiness, threats and controversy over the novel grew. Rizal was eventually compelled to leave Calamba for his own safety in 1888.

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Chapter 11 - Back To Calamba

Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1887 after publishing Noli Me Tangere. He practiced medicine in Calamba and had a successful operation on his mother's eyes. However, his enemies who resented the novel persecuted him. Despite finding some success and happiness, threats and controversy over the novel grew. Rizal was eventually compelled to leave Calamba for his own safety in 1888.

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Back To Calamba,

1887-88

“I shall return,
but I shall find myself isolated;
because those who smiled at me
before will reserve their rejoicings
for another happier being.
And in the meantime
I run after a
vain idea, perhaps a false illusion.”

-Jose Rizal
Decision to Return Home

...after the publication of the


Noli Me Tangere
Rizal was warned not to return
home by:
*Paciano (his brother)
*Sivestre Ubaldo (his
brother-in-law)
*Chengoy (Jose M. Cecilio)
*Other Friends
Thus, after five years of memorable sojourn
in Europe, he returned to the Philippines in
August, 1887. he practised medicine in Calamba.
He operated successfully on his mother’s eyes and
lived the quiet life of a country doctor.
Unfortunately his enemies, who resented Noli,
persecuted him, even menacing his life.
Reasons why he was determine to return to the
Philippines:
• to operate on his mother’s eyes
• to serve his people who had
long been oppressed by Spanish
tyrants
• to find out for himself how the
Noli and his other writings were
affecting Filipinos and
Spaniards in the Philippines;
and
• to find out why Leonor Rivera
had remained silent.
Delightful Trip and Arrival to Manila
DELIGHTFUL TRIP TO MANILA
-Rizal left Rome by train for Marseilles, a
French port, which he reached without
mishap.
• July 3, 1887-Rizal boarded the steamer
Djemnah, the same streamer which brought
him to Europe 5 years ago

• July 30, 1887-at Saigon, Rizal


transferred to another steamer, Haiphong,
which was Manila-bounded
• August 2, 1887- the steamer left Saigon
for Manila
Happy Homecoming
ARRIVAL IN 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
magnificent sight to him
• Near midnight of August 5, 1887, the
Haiphong arrived in Manila
Happy Homecoming
August 8, 1887- Rizal returned to Calamba
• In Calamba, Rizal established a medical
clinic. His first patient was his mother, who was
almost blind.

• Rizal, who came to be called “Doctor


Uliman” because he came from Germany, treated
their ailments and soon he acquired a lucrative
medical practice
Happy Homecoming
Rizal opened a gymnasium for young folks, where
he introduced European sports

• Rizal suffered one failure during his six


months of sojourn in Calamba—his failure to see
Leonor Rivera
Storm over the “Noli”

Rizal received a letter from Governor


General Emilio Terero to come to
Malacañang
Rizal visited Fr. Francisco Sanchez, Fr. Jose
Bech, and Fr. Federico Faura.
Father Faura ventured an opinion that
“everything in it was the truth,” but added:
“You may lose your head for it.”
Don Jose Taviel de Andrade, as bodyguard
of Rizal belonged to a
noble family
Storm over the “Noli”
Permanent Commission of Censorship-a committee composed of
priest and laymen

Fr. Jose Rodriguez- Augustinian priest, published a series of eight


pamphlets under the general heading
Cuestiones de Sumo Interes (Questions of Supreme Interest) to
blast the Noli and other anti-Spanish writings

The report of the faculty members of University of Santo Tomas


stated that the Noli was “heretical, impious, and scandalous in the
religious order and anti-patriotic, subversive of public order,
injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the
Philippine Islands in the political order”
Storm over the “Noli”
What marred Rizal’s happy days in Calamba with Lt. Andrade were
(1) the death of his older sister, Olimpia, and (2) the groundless
tales circulated by his enemies that he was “a German spy, an agent
of Bismarck, a Protestant, a Mason, a witch, a soul beyond
salvation, etc.”

Rev. Vicente Garcia-a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar,


-writing under the penname Justo Desiderio Magalang, wrote a
defense of the Noli which was published in Singapore as an
appendix to a pamphlet dated July 18, 1888, he blasted the
arguments of Fr. Rodriguez

Rizal, himself defended his novel against Barrantes’ attack, in a


letter written in Brussels, Belgium in February 1880.
DEFENDERS OF NOLI
Marcelo H. Del Pilar- editor of La Solidaridad
-he published a pamphlet entitled “Caiigat Cayo”
Caiigat Cayo- it means “Be slippery as an Eel”
Father Francisco Sanchez- Rizal’s beloved Jesuit professor
Don Segismundo Moret- a former President of the Council
of Minister
-he read and like the book very much.
Rev. Vicente Garcia- a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar,
Father Garcia- writing under the pen name Justo Desiderio
Magalang
-he wrote a defense of the Noli which was published
in Singapore as an appendix to a pamphlet dated on July
18, 1888.
Rizal starts the Second Novel – El
Filibusterismo

Rizal began writing El Filibusterismo in October


1887 while he was in Calamba
RIZAL AND ANDRADE
Lt. Jose Taviel de Andrade- a Spanish bodyguard,
-he was assigned as a bodyguard of Rizal by
Governor-General Terrero
- between Lt. Andrade and Rizal, a beautiful
friendship bloomed.

Calamba’s Agrarian Trouble

- Governor-General Terrero, influenced by a certain


facts in Noli Me Tangere, ordered a government
investigation of the friars estates to remedy
whatever iniquities might have been presents in
connection with land taxes and with tenant
relations.
A POEM FOR LIPA

FAREWELL TO CALAMBA

• The friars asked Governor General Terrero to


deport him, but latter refused because there was no
valid charge against Rizal in court.

• Rizal was compelled to leave Calamba for two


reasons: (1) his presence in Calamba 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
A POEM FOR LIPA

FAREWELL TO CALAMBA

• Shortly before Rizal left Calamba in 1888, his


friend from Lipa requested him to write a poem in
commemoration of the town’s elevation to a villa
(city) by virtue of the Becerra Law of 1888

• Himno Al Trabajo (Hymn to Labor)- a poem


written by Rizal dedicated to the industrious folks
of Lipa

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