Rizal as a student activist and his sojourn in the Philippines

2. • Rizal displayed his leaderhip in student
activism when he was pursuing
Philosophy and Medicine at UST.
• He organized a secret society of Filipino
students called Campanerismo, whose
members are called Campanions of Jehu.
• Rizal criticized the humiliating treatment
of brown Filipinos by the Dominican
mentors.

4. •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.
•On August 6th he arrived in Manila.

5. •On August 8th , he returned to Calamba.
His family welcomed him affectionately,
with plentiful tears of joy.

6. •A few weeks after his arrival, a storm
broke over his novel.
•One day Rizal received a letter from
Governor General Emilio Torrero to come
to Malacañang.

7. • Rev. Vicente Garcia - a Filipino Catholic
priest-scholar.
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar - editor of La
Solidaridad.
• Father Francisco Sanchez - Rizal’s
beloved Jesuit professor.

8. • Don Segismundo Moret - a former
President of the Council of Minister.
• Rizal, himself defended his novel against
Barrantes’ attack, in a letter written in
Brussels, Belgium in February 1880.

9. 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 writing in foreign countries.

10. • 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. He wrote a poem this
was the Himno Al Trabajo (Hymn to Labor).
He finished it and sent to Lipa before his
departure from Calamba.