FIRST HOMECOMING: Rizal Returned Home from Abroad Flashcards
He was determined to return home for
the following reasons:
v To operate on his mother’s eyes;
v To serve the Filipino people who were
oppressed by the Spanish tyrants;
V To determine how his novel “Noli Me Tangere” and other writings affected the Filipinos and Spaniards; and
v To inquire on the conditions of Leonor Rivera.
Rizal left Rome by train for Marseilles, a French port and boarded the Djemnah.
July 3, 1887
In Saigon, he transferred to another steamer Haiphong which was bound for Manila.
July 30, 1887
Steamer Haiphong arrived in Manila. He found Manila the same as when he left it five years ago.
August 5, 1887
Rizal returned home to Calamba.
August 8, 1887
Rizal acquired a lucrative medical practice earning blank a month,
900
Rizal acquired a lucrative medical practice earning Php 900 a month, and after a year he earned a total of
5000
A few weeks after Rizal arrived in Calamba, there were threats over Rizal’s life due to the publication of his book
“Noli Me Tangere.”
The friars and other Spanish authorities considered it as
“heretical, impious, scandalous in the religious order, anti-patriotic, subversive of public order and injurious to the government of Spain and its functions in the Philippine Islands.”
being a liberal-minded general refused to be
intimidated by the friars.
Emilio Terrero (1885-1888),
bodyguard to prevent Rizal from being harassed.
young Spanish Lieutenant,
Don Jose
Taviel de Andrade
Rizal’s Jesuit professors, believed that everything in the “Noli Me Tangere” was the truth but they were afraid that Rizal might be arrested and persecuted.
Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez, Jose Bech, and Father Federico Faura,
who advised Rizal to go abroad for a second time for his safety.
EMILIO TERRERO
