FIRST

HOMECOMING,
1887- 88
Reporter: Jay Ann A. Jaime
Annie Rose Buňol
After Five Years of memorable sojourn
in Europe, he returned to the
Philippines in August 1887 and
practiced medicine in Calamba. He
lived the quiet life of a country doctor
but his enemies, who represented his
Noli
DECISION TO RETURN HOME

•Warned by Paciano, Silvestre Ubaldo,

Chengoy, and others friends
REASONS TO GO HOME
1. To operate his mother eyes
2. to serve his people who had been long
oppressed by Spanish tyrants
3. To find out for himself how the Noli and his
other writings were affecting Filipino and
Spanish in the Philippines
4. To inquire why Leonor Rivera Remained
silent
In a letter Blumentritt, written in Geneva on June 19,
1887
Your advice that I live in madrid and continue to write from
there is very benevolent but I cannot accept it. I cannot
endure the life in madrid where everything is a voice in a
wilderness. My parents want to see me, and I want to see
them also. All my life I desire to lived in my country by the
side of my Family. Until now I am not Europeanized like the
Filipinos of madrid. I always like to return to the country of
my birth.
Delightful Trip to manila
• on July 3, 1887- boarded the steamer Djemmah

• 50 passengers including 4 Englishmen, 2 German, 3

Chinese, 2, Japanese, Many Frenchmen, and 1 Filipino
• July 30 he transfer to another steamer

• August 2, the steamer left Saigon for manila

Arrival in manila
Rizals voyage from Saigon to manila was
pleasant. On august 3 the moon was full,
and he slept soundly the whole night. The
calm sea, illumined by the silvery moonlight
was a magnificent sight to him. Near
midnight of august 5, 1887, the Haiphong
arrived in manila.
THE HAPPY HOMECOMING
• August 8, He return to calamba. His family welcomed
him affectionately, with plentiful tears of joy.
• Writing blumentritt of his homecoming, he said; I had a
pleasant voyage. I found my family enjoying good health
and our happiness was great in seeing each other again.
• Paciano did not leave him
• His own father would not let him go out alone
 In Calamba
• Rizal established a medical clinic
• Doňa Teodora- was Rizal’s first patient
• Rizal treated her eyes but could not perform any
surgical operation because her cataractsnwere not
yet ripe.
• He painted several beautiful landscape in calamba
• He translated German poems of von wilder I tagalog.
• Doctor Ulimnan- Riizal was called this name
because he came from Germany
- he earned P900 in a few months and P500
before he left the phippines
• Gymnasium- was opened by Rizal for the young
people
• He introduced European sports fencing and
shooting to discourage them from cockfighting
and gambling
• Patients from Manila and provinces
• Rizal who came to be called doctor uliman
• Accept any kind of fees
• 900 pesos as a physician
• By February 1888 he earned a total of 5000 pesos
• One Failure during 6 months of sojourn in calamba
• To see Leonor Rivera
Storm over the noli
• As Rizal was peacefully living in calamba, his enemies
plotted his doom.
• Governor General Emilio Terrero- wrote to Rizal requesting
to come to Malacaňang 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
Rizal visited the Jesuits
• Rizal visited the Jesuits fathers to ask for their
feedback on the novel
• He was gradly welcomed by the following friars
- Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez
- Fr. Jose Bech
- FR. Federico Faura- told Rizal that everthing in
the novel was the truth and warned him that he may
lose his head because of it.
Jose Taviel de Andrade
•A young Spanish lietenant who came from a
noble family
•He was cultured and knew painting
•He could speak French, English and spanish
•They became good friends.
•Governor General Terrero Read the Noli
and found nothing wrong with it.
•Archbishop of manila, Msgr. Pedro Payo
(a Dominican) sent a copy of Noli to
Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria of the
university of santo Tomas (UST) for
Examination by a committee of the faculty.
•He sent the novel to the Permanent
Commission of Censorship which was
composed of Priest and Laymen
•The report of this commission was drafted
by its head, Fr. Salvador Font,
Augustinian cura of tondo and sumitted to
the governer general on December 29.
Attackers of the Noli
- Father Font printed his report and distributed copies of it
in order to discred the controversial novel.
- Fr. Jose Rodriguez (published a series of eight pamphlets
under Cuestiones de Sumo Interest to blast the Noli
• 1. (.Why should I not read them?)
• 2. (Beware of them, Why?)
• 3. (And what can you tell me of the plague?)
4.Why do the impious triumph?
5.Do you think there is really no
purgatory?
6.Is there or is there no hell?
7. What do you think of this?
8.Confession or damnation?
• Repercussions of the storm over the Noli reached spain. It was
fiercely attacked on the session hall of the senate of the
Spanish Cortes by Various senators, particularly
- General jose de Salamanca on April 1, 1888, General Luis M.
- De pando on April 12
- Sr. Fernando Vida on June 11
• The Spanish academician of madrid, Vicente Barrantes, who
formerly occupied high government poitions in the Philippines,
Bitterly criticized the Noli in an article published in La Espaňa
Moderna (a newspaper of madrid) in January, 1890.
Defenders of the Noli.
• Marcelo H. del Pilar,
• Dr. antonio Ma. Regidor,
• Graciano Lopez Jaena,
• Mariano Ponce and other Filipino reformists
• Fr. Sanchez
• Don Segismundo Moret (Former Minister of crown) Dr,
Miguel Morayta
• Prof. Blumentritt
• Rev. Vicente Garcia,
- A filipino Catholic priest- scholar, a theologian of the
manila cathedral, and tagalog translator of the famous
Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.
• Father Garcia
- Writing under the penname just Desidero 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
1.Rizal did not attack the Church and
Spain
2.Rizal cannot be an igorant man”
3.Fr. Rodriguez said that those who read
the Noli commit, a mortal sin:
When Riszal learned of the brilliant defense of
father Garcia of his novel
◦ Rizal himself defended his novel against
Barrantes attact,bin a letter written in Brussels,
Belgium, in February, 1880.
◦ According to Rizal, in a letter to Fernando Canon
from Geneva, June 13, 1887, the price he set per
copy was five pesetasb(Equivalent to one Peso),
◦Rizal and Taviel de Andrade
- While the storm over the Noli was raging in
fury, Rizal was not molested in calamba.this
is due to Governor General Terrero’s
generosity in assigning bodyguard to him.
Between this Spanish bodyguard, Lt. Jose
Taviel de Andrade, and Rizal a beautiful
friendship bloomed together
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
Calamba’s Agarian Trouble
• Governor General Terrero-influenced by facts from
Noli,ordered the investigation of the friar estates (land taxes
and tenant relations.
• One of the friar estates affected was the Calamba Hacienda
which the Dominican order owned since 1883.
• In compliance with the governor generals order, dated
December, 30, 1887, the civil Governor of laguna province
directed the municipal authorities of calamba to investigate
the agarian conditions of their locality.
• Rizal wrote down his findings which the tenents
and three of the officials of the hacienda signed
on January 8, 1888
• Upon hearing about the investigation, the
people of Calamba asked helped from Rizal to
gather facts and list the grievances so that the
government might institute certain agarian
reforms.
1.The hacienda of the Dominican order comprised not only the lands
around calamba, but also the town of calamba
2.The profits of the Dominican order continually increased because of
the arbitrary increase of the arbitrary increase of the rentals paid by
the tenants
3.The hacienda owner never contributed a single centavo for the
celebration of the town fiesta
4.Tenants who had spent much labor in clearing the lands were
dispossessed of said lands for flimsy reasons.
5.High rates of interest were charged the tenants for delayed payment
of rentals, and when the rentals could not be paid, the hacienda
management confiscated their carabaos, tools, and homes.
Farewell to calamba
• Friars exerted pressure on the Malacanan Palace
toeliminate Rizal
-Asked Governor General Terrero to deport him
• Anonymous death threats received by Rizal’s parents
advised Rizal to go away (parents, relatives & friends
incl. Lt. Taviel)
• Governor General Terrero  summoned Rizal and
“advised” him to leave PH for his own good. Rizal was
given a chance to escape
.
•Reasons for compelled decision to
leave
-His presence jeopardizes the safety and
happiness of his family &friends
- He could fight better his enemies and
serve his country’s caused with greater
efficacy by writing in foreign countries
A Poem for Lipa
• Rizal left Calamba 1888 his friend from Lipa
Requested him to write a poem in commemoraton
of the towns elavatioon to a villa (city) by virtue of
the Becera law of 1888.
• Gladly, he wrote a poem dedicated to the
industrious folks of lipa. This was the Himno Al
trabajo”(Hymn to Labor)
Thank you