Rizal embarked on his last trip abroad in August 1896, visiting various places in the Philippines. However, unbeknownst to Rizal, Governor General Blanco was conspiring with Spanish ministers to have Rizal arrested. On September 30, Rizal was notified that he would be arrested upon arriving in Barcelona. On October 3, the ship arrived in Barcelona and Rizal was taken prisoner. He was then transferred to prison fortresses in Barcelona and Madrid while awaiting trial.

1. RIZAL’S
THE LAST TRIP
ABROAD

2.  August 1, 1896
Rizal anchored at Dumaguete-capital of
Negros Oriental.
Rizal his travel diary
“Spreads out on the beach. There are big
houses, some with galvanized iron roofing.
Outstanding are the house of a lady, whose
name I forgotten, which is occupied by the
government and another one just begun with
ipil posts.”

3. Rizal visited a friend and former classmate,
Herrero Regidor and Rufina Family.
a judge in the province
In the afternoon he operated a Spanish captain
of the guardia civil.
Dumaguete to Cebu
 Rizal was fascinated by the entrance to Cebu
which he considered beautiful.

4. He wrote in his diary
“ I did two operations of strabotomy, one
operation on the ears and another of tumor.”
 August 3, 1896
Cebu to Iloilo
“ The voyage was fine. At the right we saw
Mactan an Island famous for what happened to
Magellan. The whole afternoon was
magnificient… we saw many islands along our
way..the next day, in the morning, we entered
Iloilo,,Rizal landed at Iloilo, went shopping in the
city and visited Molo.”

5. Of the Molo church he commented:
“ The church is pretty outside and the interior is
not bad, considering that it had been painted by
a lad. The painting are mostly copies of biblical
scenes by Gustave Dore.”
From Iloilo, Rizal’s ship sailed to Capiz
After a brief stopover, it proceeded towards to
Romblon until proceeding to Manila.

6. -He missed the regular steamer Isla de Luzon,
which sailed to Spain the day before he arrived
in Manila Bay.
-While waiting for the next ship for Spain, Rizal
was kept as a “guest” on board the Spanish
cruiser Castilla.
----Here Rizal stayed for a month while waiting for
another steamer that will bring him to Spain.

7. Philippine Revolution
Started
• Fr. Mariano Gil – discovered the secret society
(Katipunan) and reported to the Spanish
authorities.
• August 26, 1896-Andres Bonifacio and the
Katipunan raised the cry of revolution in the
hills of Balintawak.
-----tore their cedulas aggravated the discovery.

8. Departure for Spain
• August 30, 1896 – the day when the state of
war was proclaimed in the eight provinces,
Rizal received two letters from Gov. Gen.
Blanco.
• These were letters of introduction to the
Minister of War and Minister of Colonies
• The day before his departure, he wrote to his
mother.

9.  September 2, 1896
-Rizal transferred to the steamer Isla de Panay
which was sailing for Barcelona, Spain.
 September 3, 1896
-the steamer left Manila Bay
At last, Rizal’s last trip to Spain begun
Among his fellow passengers onboard were Don
Pedro Roxas-rich Manila Creole Industrialist and
his friend—and his son named Periquin.

10.  September 7, 1896 (Rizal in Singapore)
-the Isla de Panay arrived at Sinagpore.
The following morning Rizal and other
passengers went ashore for sightseeing and
shopping for souvenires.
Rizal wrote:
“I have observed some changes, there more
Chinese merchants and less Indians…I bought a
Chinese gown,,Singapore has changed much
since I saw it for the first time in 1882”.

11. -Don Pedro advised Rizal to stay behind too and
take advantage of the protection of the British
law.
-Rizal ignored it for he believed that the Gov.
Gen. has a word of honor.
-Don Manuel Camus and several Filipino
residents of Singapore to save his life.

12. VICTIM OF SPANISH
DUPLICITY
-By refusing to break his word of honor in
Singapore, Rizal sealed his own doom.
-for without his knowledge , Governor Blanco
was secretly conspiring with the Ministers of
War and the Colonies for hid destruction.

13. “ For all his wonderful talents, Rizal was after all
a mortal man who commited mistakes. And one
of his greatest mistake was to believe that
Governor General Blanco was a man of honor
and a friend because he allowed him to go as a
free man to Spain to become a physician
surgeon of the Spanish army in Cubs, where a
bloody revolution was raging and gave him two
nice letters of introduction addressed to the
Spanish Ministers of War and the Colonies.

14. • Gov. Gen. Blanco, together with the Ministers
of Colonies and War were exchanging
telegrams and confidential messages for the
arrest of Rizal upon reaching Barcelona and
that he was a deportee and was being secretly
kept under surveillance.

15. RIZAL ARRESTED BEFORE
REACHING BARCELONA
 September 8, 1:00 p.m.
The Isla de Panay, with Rizal onboard, left
Singapore, unaware of the Spanish duplicity
particularly of Governor General Blanco’s
infernal deceit, he happily continued the
voyage towards Barcelona.
 September 25,1896
He saw the steamer Isla de Luzon, leaving the
Suez Canal with Spanish troops.

16.  September 27, 1896
He heard from the passengers that a telegram
arrived from the Manila reporting the
execution of Francisco Roxas Genato and
Osorio
 September 28, 1896
A passenger told Rizal the bad news that he
would be arrested by order of Governor
General Blanco and would be sent to prison in
Cueta (Spanish Morocco), opposite Gibraltar.

17. Shocked by the news, Rizal realized that he
was being duped.
“ there was nothing official yet about impending
arrest; it was still merely shipboard gossip. There
are people on board who do nothing but slander
me and invent fanciful stories about me. I’m
going to become a legendary personage.”

18.  September 30, 1896 (at 4:00 p.m.)
he was officially notified by Captain Alemany
that he should stay in his cabin until further
orders from Manila. He obeyed orders.
6:25 p.m.-arrival in Barcelona as prisoner.

19.  October 3, 1896
The Isla de Panay arrived in Barcelona. With
Rizal a Prisoner on board.
Rizal was confined in his cabin
He was arrested by former Gov. Gen. Eulogio
Despujol, the man who placed him in exile in
Dapitan now serving as the Military
Commander of Barcelona.

20.  October 4- Rizal noticed the city’s celebration
of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
 October 6, Rizal was escorted to the prison-fortress
named Monjuich.- an infamous
fortress in Madrid
 After his stay at Monjuich, he was transferred
to a ship named Colon. Rizal was aboard the
Colon which was full of soldiers and officers.
On October 6, 8:00 p.m., the ship left
Barcelona.

21. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!!
PREPARED BY:
Mary Ann Pascua
(BSED IV-B)