The Life, works and writings of Rizal RMGS-

1. HOMECOMING
Rizal Returned Home from Abroad
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Group III
BATIANCILA, MILLAN, SAMALCA, SUMILE
THE
OF RIZAL

2. DECISION TO
RETURN HOME
After five(5) years of sojourn in Europe, he decided to return home to the
Philippines.
Paciano, Silvestre Ubaldo (his brother-in-law), Chengoy (Jose M. Cecilio) and other
friends warned him not to return home because of the publication of his “Noli Me
Tangere” which caused uproar and anger among friars in the Philippines. Rizal did
not heed their warning.

3. RIZAL’S REASON TO RETURN HOME:
To serve his people
who had long been
oppressed by Spanish
tyrants;
To find out for himself
how the Noli Me
Tangere and his other
writings were affecting
Filipinos and Spaniards;
To operate his mother’s
eyes;
To inquire why Leonor
Rivera remained silent.

4. RIZAL’S ROUTE
Rome
Marseille, France
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam
Manila, Philippines
July 3, 1887 – Rizal left Rome by train for Marseilles, a French port and boarded Djemnah.
July 30, 1887 – In Saigon, he transferred to another steamer Haiphong.
August 2, 1887 – Haiphong left Saigon to Manila
August 5, 1887 – The steamer Haiphong finally arrived in Manila.
August 8, 1887 – Rizal reached Calamba.

5. After a dramatic meeting with his parents and family, Rizal immediately had
the ground floor of the house turned into a medical clinic. Noticing upon his
arrival that his mother could hardly see, she became his first patient.
With his surgical skills acquired from the best eye clinics in Europe he was
succesful in operating the defect of his mother’s sightless eyes by removing
the double cataracts.
BACK
IN TOWN

6. News started to spread out fast in Calamba about Jose who is now a doctor.
Patients began to flock in to seek medical help. His policy with his
professional fee was simple:
➜ If the patient is poor, thank you was enough.(some patients insisted
bringing him vegetables, fruits or chickens)
➜ However, if the patient is rich, then he would charge in a European manner.
Realizing that he arrived from Germany some people called him as Dr.
Uleman. He earned P900 in a few months and P5,000 before he left the
Philippines.
DOCTOR
ULEMAN

7. ➜ He painted several beautiful landscapes in Calamba.
➜ He translated German poems of Von Wildernath in Tagalog.
➜ He introduced European sports fencing and shooting to discourage them
from cockfighting and gambling.
➜ Needless to say, despite of his accomplishments he never forgot his town
mates. Together with friends, he built a simple gymnasium for the young
folks. He wanted them to spend time on things with productive use.
IN CALAMBA

8. Leonor Rivera
– Rizal, during the six months of his
vacation in Calamba, tried to visit her
in Tarlac but his parents forbade him
to go because Leonor’s mother did not
like him for a son-in-law & due to
parent’s advice that his relationship
with Leonor only brought conflicts
between his and Leonor’s parents.
SAD MOMENTS
WHILE IN
CALAMBA
Olimpia Mercado-Ubaldo
– While in chaos was surrounding his
novel, Rizal was once more
devastated by the untimely death of
his elder sister, Olimpia. She died due
to lingering illness, childbirth. Rizal
partly blamed himself for her death, for
as a doctor, he should have prevented
something like this from happening to
his very own family.

9. THE NOLI ME
TANGERE
CONTROVERSY
The storm over the Noli Me Tangere

10. A few weeks after his arrival, a storm broke out over his
novel as Rizal received a letter From Gov. General
Emelio Terrero, ordering him to come to Malacanang
for some questioning. Rizal, in response went to Manila
and appeared before the Governor.
Realizing that Rizal’s life may be in grave danger, one
king governor assigned a bodygourd to him. The
bofygourd was a yound spanish lieutenant, Don Jose
Taviel de Andrade.
Gov. General Emilio
Terrero y Perinat
Jose Taviel de Andrade y
Lerdo de Tejada

11. NOLI IS
BANNED
Msgr. Pedro Payo
Archbishop of Manila
Fr. Rector Gregorio Echavarria
Of the University of Santo Tomas
Permanent Commission
of Censoship
Composed of priest and Laymen
Fr. Salvador Font
Agustinian Cura of Tondo
•Base on their assessment the novel contained “subversive ideas against the Church
and Spain” and recommended for its banning and circulation in the islands.
•The banning of the Noli Me Tangere served to make it popular.
•The masses supported the book.

12. The attackers of the NMT included primarily the Catholic Clergy:
• Pedro Payo Archbishop of Manila
- who ordered the investigation and recommendation of the said novel
• Fr. Gregorio Echevarria Rector of University of Santo Tomas
- who ordered to study the novel at the UST
• Fray Salvador Font Head of the Permanent Commission of Censorship
- filed the report to the government that the Noli, being injurious to the interest
of the colonial governmentand the Catholic clergy, must be immediately banned
• Fr. Jose Rodriguez
-who published as a reaction to the NMT a pamphlet entitled “Caiingat Cayo”.
The said pamphlet stated that whoever reads the Noli shall commit a mortal sin.
• The novel was fiercely attacked in the session hall of the Senate of the Spanish
Cortes.
Senators:
• General Jose de Salamanca
• General Luis de Pando
• Sr. Fernando Vida
• Vicente Barrantes Spanish Writer
- who openly criticized the novel in the spanish newspaper La España
Moderna.
THE ENEMIES
FROM
THE CHURCH

13. Though the enemy may be enormous the defenders were also busy spreading their
cause.
• Propagandists such as Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Ma.
Regidor, Mariano Ponce rushed to uphold the truths of the Noli.
• Marcelo H. del Pilar Dolores Manapat – Penname
- published a pamphlet entitled “Caiigat Cayo” as an answer to Fr.
Rodriguez’s “Caiingat Cayo”
• Fr. Francisco Sanchez
- also went publicity to defend the novel.
• 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 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’S
ALLIES

14. Influenced by the novel, Governor-General Emilio Terrero ordered a government
investigation of the friar estates to remedy whatever inequities might have been
present in connection with land taxes and with tenant relations.
One of the friar estates affected was the Calamba hacienda by the Dominican order
since 1883.
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 agrarian reforms.
AGRARIAN
PROBLEM IN
CALAMBA

15. 1.The hacienda of the
Dominican Order
comprised not only the
lands around Calamba,
but the whole town of
Calamba.
2.The profits of the
Dominican Order
continually increased
because of the arbitrary
increase of he rentals paid
by the tenants.
3.The hacienda owner
never contributed a single
centavo for the celebration
of the town fiesta, for the
education of the children,
and for the improvement
of agriculture.
4.Tenants who spent
much labor in clearing the
lands were dispossessed
of the said lands for flimsy
reasons.
5.High rates of interest
were arbitrarily charged
the tenants for delayed
payment of rentals
6.When the rentals could
not be paid, the hacienda
management confiscated
the work animals, tools,
and farm implements of
the tenants.
FINDINGS SUBMITTED BYRIZAL

16. Rizal visited Lipa before he left for Manila. On the occasion of its conversion to
a city, he was invited to become a guest speaker. A poem for Lipa – shortly
before Rizal left in 1888, he was asked by a friend to write a poem in
commemoration of the town’s cityhood.
Himno Al Trabajo (Hymn To Labor) – title of the poem dedicated to the
industrious people of Lipa.
TO
LIPA

17. “I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my
country... You, who will see it, welcome it for
me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
─ Jose Rizal

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