1. 5 Aug 1887 8 Aug 1887 18 Aug 1887 30 Aug 1887
-Rizal arrives in - Goes home to -Archbishop Payo - Rizal goes to Manila to
Manila Calamba instructs Fr. Gregorio meet with Gov.-Gen.
Echevarria, Rector of Terrero regarding the Noli
the University of Sto.
Thomas, that an -Terrero asks for a copy of
information about the the Noli which Rizal gives
novel Noli Me Tangere a few days later
be issued by a
Commission -Terrero assigns a Spanish
composed of officer, Jose Taviel de
University professors Andrade, to accompany
Fr. Matias Gomez, Fr. Rizal in his travels in the
Norberto del Prado country
and Fr. Evaristo
Fernandez Arias. - The Archbishop of
Manila orders prohibition
of the Noli
2. Oct 1887 29 De 1887 8 Jan 1888 3 Feb 1888
-In order to -The Permanent -Rizal writes a - Rizal, after
discourage Board Of Censure petition to the staying in the
Calamba folk from headed by Fr. Administrator of Philippines for
going to cockpits Salvador Font Public Islands of almost six
and other forms of issues a Laguna against months, leaves
gambling, he judgment the Haciendas of Manila for
encourages and absolutely the friars in Hongkong, bringi
popularizes prohibiting the Calamba. ng with him
physical exercises circulation of the P5,000 which he
by giving classes in Noli Me Tangere earned from his
gymnastics. in the Philppines medical practice
-Blumetritt informs
him that he is
translating the Noli
to German
3. Friars’ judgement
of the Noli:
Upon the recommendation of the Governor-
General, Father Font said:
"…Aside of attacking so directly, as you have seen your
Excellency, the Religion of the state, institutions and
respectable persons for their official character, the
book is replete of foreign teachings and doctrines; and
the general synthesis of the same is to inspire among
the loyal and submissive sons of Spain in these distant
islands, profound,and furious hate to the mother
country…"
4. Rizal’s Petition
Rizal cited all the grievances of the Calamba folk and
tenants against the supposed owner of the hacienda.
He said the owner (The Dominicans) didn’t help in the
improvement of agriculture, in the celebration of the
town fiesta, in the education of the children, and that
the profit of the hacienda increased due to the
increased rentals (but the Dominicans never raised the
amount they paid as taxes for their haciendas).
5. Looking back at their friendship
some years after Rizal’s
execution, Taviel de Andrade
mused, “although we never grew
intimate, an open friendship grew
between us that, I must
confess, was most pleasing to me
in that wilderness”.
