Week 7 o He wanted them to spend

time on productive activities.

FIRST HOMECOMING TO SIDE TRIP TO
➢ But he failed to see Leonor in his six
THE USA
months’ vacation due to the
➢ August 1887- Rizal decided to conflicts of his parents and
return to the Philippines. Leonor’s.
➢ Left Rome by train for Marseilles.
➢ Boarded the Djemmah bound to
NOLI ME TANGERE CONTROVERSY
Saigon.
➢ July 30, 1888- arrived in Saigon, ➢ Rizal received a summons from
where he transferred to the steamer Governor-General Emilio Terrero
Haifong. regarding the novel which has
➢ August 6, 1888- Rizal arrived in become a hot issue.
Manila. ➢ He went to Malacañang to answer
➢ Noticed that Manila has not any question surrounding his
changed that much. novel.
➢ August 1888- he reached Calamba, ➢ He denied that he was a spy from
where there was a dramatic Germany.
meeting. ➢ He explained that he was only
➢ He turned the ground floor of their expressing the truth of what is
house into a medical clinic. going on in society in his novel.
➢ His first patient was his mother ➢ The Governor was satisfied with his
who could hardly see. answer and asked for a copy of the
➢ He successfully restored the novel, since he had not read the
eyesight of his mother which had novel himself.
double cataracts. ➢ Rizal’s enemies kept doing
➢ The good news spread like wildfire everything to persecute him.
as many sick people flock to seek ➢ They accused the novel to have
medical help. subversive ideas against the church
➢ His professional fee was very and the Spanish government.
simple: ➢ The kind Governor assigned a
bodyguard for Rizal, to protect him
o If the patient is poor, a simple from danger.
“thank you” is enough. Some ➢ His bodyguard was a young
patients gave him vegetables, Spanish Lieutenant, Don Jose
fruits, chicken, etc. Taviel de Andrade.
o If the patient is rich, he would ➢ The two became true friends in no
charge in the European way. time at all because they have
➢ The people called him Dr. Uleman common interests.
having arrived from Germany.
➢ Rizal shared his blessings to his
THE NOLI ME TANGERE GOT BANNED
townmates:
o He built a gymnasium for ➢ The powerful friars put the novel
the youth to discourage them under strict scrutiny headed by
from engaging in different Manila Archbishop Msgr. Pedro
forms of gambling. Payo.
➢ He sent a copy to the UST Fr. novel in the Spanish newspaper La
Rector Gregorio Echevarria for Esperanza Moderna.
examination.
➢ The latter found the novel heretical,
ALLIES OF DR. JOSE RIZAL
impious, and scandalous.
➢ The Governor sent the novel for ➢ Marcelo H. Del Pilar- using the
further assessment to the pen name Dolores Manapat,
Permanent Commission on published a pamphlet entitled
Censorship composed of priests “Caiigat Cayo” that refuted and
and laymen headed by Fr. ridiculed Fr. Rodriguez’ “Caiingat
Salvador Font, Tondo parish Cayo.”
priest. ➢ Fr. Francisco Sanchez, Rizal’s
➢ The body found the novel with beloved Ateneo teacher.
subversive ideas against the
Church and the Spanish
RIZAL’S SECOND TRAVEL ABROAD
government.
➢ The Commission recommended A GLANCE OF EAST ASIA
that the book be banned and have
➢ On February 3, 1888, for the
its circulation in the islands be
second time, Rizal sailed to
totally stopped.
Hongkong as a frustrated being
➢ The move boomeranged because it
who wanted the utmost reform in
only made the Filipinos more
his native land.
curious in reading the novel.
➢ He left on board the steamship
➢ Thus, the novel’s price was
Zafiro.
exorbitantly priced.
➢ He registered at the Victoria Hotel.
➢ No arrests were made, thanks to the
liberal-minded governor. A HONG KONG VISIT

➢ In Hongkong, he was accompanied

RIZAL’S ENEMIES FROM THE CHURCH by Jose Maria Basa to Macau.
➢ They had a short trip to Macau, a
1. Manila Archbishop Msgr. Pedro
former Portuguese colony on board
Payo
the ferry Kiu-Kiang.
2. UST Rector Fr. Domingo
➢ The two visited Don Juan
Echevarria
Francisco Lecaros, former Filipino
3. Fr. Salvador Font- head of the
delegate to the Spanish Cortes.
Permanent Commission on
➢ Terrero’s former secretary, Jose
Censorship
Sainz de Varanda, spied on Rizal
4. Fr. Jose Rodriguez- who published
in the said colonies.
an anti-Noli pamphlet entitled
“Caiingat Cayo”. IMPRESSIONS ABOUT HONG
➢ The pamphlet stated that “whoever KONG
reads the novel commits a mortal
➢ Noisy celebration of New Year
sin”.
➢ Noisy audience in a theatre and
➢ Another attacker of the Noli was
boisterous music
Vicente Barrantes, a Spanish
➢ Marathon lauriat meal
writer who openly criticized the
➢ Dominican friars are the richest ➢ Rizal was tempted to settle down in
investors and estate owners. Japan and stay with O-Sei-San but
➢ Catholics owned the most his love for his country was more
extravagant cemeteries. important than self.
➢ O-Sei-San understood the feeling of
UNFORGETTABLE JAPAN
Rizal, and so he let him leave her.
➢ After almost three weeks, on board ➢ O-Sei-San could have probably
the American steamer, Oceanic, he waited for Rizal, because since his
left Hongkong and sailed to Japan departure in 1888, she only decided
where he was invited by Secretary to marry in 1897 after she learned
Juan Perez Caballero to live at the that Rizal had been executed in
Spanish Legation. 1896.
➢ His instinct told him that it was a
Excerpts of Rizal’s Diary:
bait – a way for the Spanish officials
to keep track of his activities. ➢ “…O-Sei-San, Sayonara, Sayonara!
➢ And since it was economical to stay I have spent a lovely golden month;
at the legation and he believed that I do not know if I can have another
he had nothing to hide, he accepted one like that in all my life. “…Love,
it. money, friendship, appreciation,
honor… these have not been
FILIPINO ENTERTAINERS IN
wanting. “…Your image lives in my
JAPAN
memory; and that I am always
➢ While strolling around at a park in thinking of you… your name lives in
Tokyo, Rizal went to listen to a the sighs of my lips, your image
group of performers playing the accompanies and animates all my
Western Strauss music, a rare thoughts…”
occasion in this Oriental country.
A TOMODACHI
➢ To his surprise, the musicians
started to talk in Tagalog. ➢ Tomodachi is a Japanese word
➢ They were Filipinos and Rizal meaning "friend(s)".
introduced himself. ➢ Rizal boarded the ship Belgic going
to the United States.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
➢ He met a Japanese journalist who
➢ Rizal was impressed by the scenic was sent to exile for his
Japan and had keenly observed the antigovernment articles.
life, customs and culture of the ➢ His name was Tetcho Suehiro.
people. ➢ They became friends, having many
➢ He had fallen in love not only with things in common.
the view but more to its women, ➢ Suehiro wrote a book entitled “The
particularly with the 23-year-old Deaf Traveler” wherein he
Seiko Usui or O-Sei-San. mentioned his travel with Rizal.
➢ The friendship bloomed to become ➢ His novel “Storm Over The
a romance. Southern Seas” had a similar plot
➢ The relationship became so to Noli.
intimate that Rizal believed that it
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
was the best affair he had so far.
➢ April 28, 1888 – the Belgic docked
at San Francisco, California.
➢ The passengers were not allowed to
disembark.
➢ They were put under quarantine.
➢ They learned that there were 600
potential illegal Chinese
immigrants to the United States.
➢ Rizal registered himself at the
Palace Hotel where he met the
founder of Stanford University, Mr.
Leland Stanford.

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA

➢ The United States have maintained

its natural beauty in spite of the
industrial and technological
advancements.
➢ The energy and diligence of the
people
➢ America is truly a land of great
opportunities.
➢ Racial discrimination between the
Whites and the Blacks