Rizal's First Homecoming: Westmead International School

WESTMEAD INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Rizal’s First
Homecoming
1887-1888
Rizal's Plans of Homecoming
• As early as 1884, Rizal wanted to go back to the Philippines for the
following reasons:
- Financial difficulties in Calamba
- Dissatisfaction with his studies in Madrid
- Desire to prove that there is no reason to fear going home.
- His belief that the Spanish regime will not punish the innocent.
DECISION TO RETURN HOME
• After five years of his memorable sojourn in Europe, Rizal returned to the
Philippines.
• However, Rizal was warned by the following not to return to the Philippines
because his Noli Me Tangere angered the friars:
- Paciano Mercado - Rizal's adviser and only brother.
- Silvestre Ubaldo-Rizal's brother in law; husband of Olimpia.
- Jose Ma. Cecilio (Chenggoy) - one of Rizal's closest friends.
To serve his people
To operate his who had long been
mother’s eye oppressed by
Spanish tyrants.
Rizal was determined to come back
to the Philippines for the following

To find out for
himself how the Noli To inquire why
reasons: Me Tangere and his Leonor Rivera
other writings were remained silent.
affecting Filipinos
and Spaniards.
Rizal left Rome by train to Marseilles, a French port
and boarded Djemnah, the same steamer that
brought him to Europe five years ago.
There were 50 passengers: 4 Englishmen, 2 Germans,

3 Chinese, 2 Japanese, 40 Frenchmen, and 1 Filipino
(Rizal)
Rizal arrives in Manila
When the ship reached Aden, the weather became
rough and some of Rizal's book got wet
In Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam – he transferred to

another steamer, Haiphong, that brought him to
Manila.
Happy Homecoming
When Rizal arrived in Calamba, rumors spread that he was a:
- German spy
- An agent of Otto Von Bismarck, the liberator of Germany.
- A Protestant
- A Mason
- A soul halfway to damnation
Paciano - did not leave him during the
first days after arrival to protect him
from any enemy assault.
Don Francisco - did not permit him to go
out alone
• Rizal established a medical clinic.
• Doña Teodora - was Rizal's first
patient
• Rizal treated her eyes but could not
In Calamba
perform any surgical operation because
her cataracts were not yet ripe.
• He painted several beautiful
landscapes in Calamba.
• 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.
• Leonor Rivera - Rizal tried to
Sad Moments visit her in Tarlac but his parents
forbade him to go because
while Rizal Leonor's mother did not like him
was in for a son-in law.
• Olimpia Mercado-Ubaldo- died
Calamba because of child birth.
Storm over the Noli Me TANGERE
• As Rizal was peacefully living in Calamba, his enemies plotted his doom.
• Governor General Emilio Terrero-wrote to Rizal requesting to come to
Malacañang Palace.
- Somebody had whispered to his ear that the Noli contains subversive
ideas.
- Rizal explained to him that he merely exposed the truth, but did not
advocate subversive ideas.
- He was pleased by Rizal's explanation and curious about the book, he
asked for a copy of the novel.
- Rizal had no copy that time but promised to send one for him.
Attackers of The Noli
• Archbishop Pedro Payo - a Fr. Gregorio Echavarria

Dominican
SENATOR FERNANDO VIDA DEPUTY LUIS M. DE PANDO PRIME MINISTER PRAXEDES
VICENTE BARRANTES
MATEO SAGASTA
Fr. Salvador Font Augustinian friar curate of Tondo
was the head of the commission.
- The group found that the novel contain subversive

ideas against the Church and Spain and
recommended that the importation, reproduction
and circulation of the pernicious book in the islands
be absolutely prohibited.
• 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.
Defenders of the Noli Me Tangere
• Propagandists such as Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Ma.

Regidor, Mariano Ponce rushed to uphold the truths of the Noli.
• Father Francisco de Paula Sanchez - Rizal's favorite teacher in Ateneo defended
and praised the novel in public.
• Don Segismundo Moret - former Minister of the Crown.
• Prof. Miguel Morayta- historian and stateman
• Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt - Rizal's best friend
• Rev. Fr. Vicente Garcia - 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.
Rizal cried because of his gratitude to his defenders especially to Fr. Garcia who
defended him unexpectedly.
• He attacked Barantes by exposing his ignorance of Philippine affairs and mental
dishonesty which is unworthy of an academician.
• Because of the interest of both enemies and protectors of the Noli the price of
the book increased from five pesetas per copy to 50 pesetas per copy.

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to the Philippines for the following

There were 50 passengers: 4 Englishmen, 2 Germans,

In Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam – he transferred to

• Gymnasium - was opened by Rizal for the young people

• Archbishop Pedro Payo - a Fr. Gregorio Echavarria

- The group found that the novel contain subversive

- Published a series of eight pamphlets under the

- Copies of anti-Rizal pamphlets were sold after mass

- Many Filipinos were forced to buy them in order not

• Propagandists such as Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Ma.

• Rev. Fr. Vicente Garcia - a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian of the

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