Rizal

And His Travels

BY: GROUP #2
Departure
of Jose
Rizal from
Europe
PARCUTELA, STEPH
• On March 21, 1887, the Noli Me
Tangere came off the printing press.
• Rizal immediately sent copies to his
intimate friends, including Blumentritt,
Dr. Antonio Jaena, Mariano Ponce, and
Felix R. Hidalgo.
• Rizal gave Viola the galley proofs of
Noli carefully rolled around the pen
that he used in writing. It also has a
 May 11, 1887
• Rizal and Viola left Berlin by train
• Dresden - one of the best cities in Germany
• Prometheus Bound - a Greek mythological
tragedy.
painting wherein Rizal was deeply impressed
• Teschen (now Decin, Czechoslovakia) - next
stopover after leaving Dresden
Dr. Maximo
Viola y Sison
• The
(Oct. savior
17, 1857 of1933)
– Sep. 3, The
Noli Me Tangere
• Financed the
printing of the novel
Noli Me Tangere by
giving Rizal P300
 Leitmeritz
• At 1:30pm of May 13, 1887
• The train with Rizal and Viola on
board, arrived at the railroad station
of Leitmeritz, Bohemia
• for the first time, two great schlars-
Rizal and Bluementritt-met in person
 Professor
Blumentritt
• A kind-hearted, old
Austrian professor
• He also introduced Rizal to
Professor Robert Klutschak,
an eminent naturalist and
• another renowned scientist
of Europe namely, Dr.
Carlos Czepelak
 May 13 - 16, 1887
• Rizal and Viola stayed in Leitmeritz
• Where they have met the Burgomaster(Town
Mayor)
• Tourist’s Club of Leitmeritz
• -which Blumentritt was the secretary. Rizal
spoke extemporanously in fluent German
languange to the other officers and members
 May 16, 1887
• At 9:45 am, Rizal and Viola left Leitmeritz by train
• PRAGUE
– Dr. Willkomm - professor of natural history in the University
of Prague
– The tomb of Copernicus, the museum of natural history,
the bacteriological laboratories, the famous cave where
San Juan Nepomuceno was imprisoned, and the bridge
from which the saint was hurled into the river.
– (according to Viola, “nothing of importance happenned” in
this city)
 May 20, 1887
• Rizal and Viola arrived in the beautiful city of Vienna,
capital of Austria-Hungary
– Queen of Danube
– Famous in songs and story, beautiful buildings, religions
images and charm.
• Norfentals
– one of the greatest novelists in Europe during that time. The
great novelist was impressed by Rizal’s genius. Later he spoke
highly of Rizal.
 • Hotel Metropole - where
Rizal and Viola stayed
• Rizal received his lost
diamond stickpin.
• They visited the city’s
interesting places, such
as churches, museums,
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art galleries, theaters
on d Stic and parks.
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 May 24, 1887
• Rizal and Viola left Vienna on a river boat to
see the beautiful sights of the Danube River
• Rizal observed the different sights:
• barges loaded with products, flowers and plants
growing along the river banks, the boats with
families living on them, and the quaint villages on
the riversides. the passengers using paper napkins
during meals.
• Munich
– Where Rizal and Viola sojourned for a
short time to savor the famous Munich
beer, reputed to be the best in Germany
• Nuremberg
– one of the oldest cities of Germany
• The Cathedral of Ulm
– the largest and tallest cathedral in
Germany
• From Ulm, they went to
Stuttgart, Baden and then
Rheinfall (Cascade of the
Rhine) which they refer to as
“the most beautiful waterfull
in Europe”
 June 2-3, 1887
• They stayed at Schaffhaussen, Switzerland.

June 23, 1887

• In Geneva, Switzerland, Maximo Viola and
Jose Rizal parted ways. Viola returned to
Spain. While Rizal continued the tour to
Italy.
 Rizal continued to Rome Italy.
• Exposition of the Philippines (Exposición
de las Islas Filipinas), held in Madrid,
Spain in the city’s Zoological Garden.

• Rizal was outraged by this degradation

of his fellow countrymen the Igorots of
Northern Luzon.
 This was the first of all Igorot shows. It
was condemned by Rizal but his persuasion
had no more effect than many American
voices, including Teddy Roosevelt’s, that
• In Marseilles, France he
bordered Djemnah to Saigon,
Vietnam and finally, Manila.

(SS Djemnah, Wikipedia)

The Protesta
de Calamba
DELA FUENTE, PAULENE
 The Protesta de
Calamba
• While Rizal was staying in Calamba,
Governor General Emilio Terrero
ordered an investigation of the friar
landholdings suspecting that the
Calamba estate might be evading full
payment of taxes.
• Rizal was involved in the
• The tenants reported that:
1. The Dominicans owns the whole town
including the houses of the people
2. Rizal alleged that the Domiinicans
increased their income by raising the rent
of the tenants
3. It was said that the Dominicans did not
contribute a single cent for the fiesta
4. The tenants who worked clearing the
lands were dispossessed of lands
5. There were high rates of interest if the
 After the report, it was followed with a
petition to the government questioning the
legitimacy of the landholding of the Dominicans.
It turned out that the allegations were not
entirely true. A study to the controversy revealed
that:
1. The Dominicans controlled vast
landholdings not only in Calamba, they also
controlled in the neighboring towns of Biñan, San
Pedro and Santa Rosa which were actually titled
in the name of Order.
2. The Dominicans used the rent earned from
the lands in maintaining churches and
 4. The increase in rent happened as cost increased.
5.The Dominicans had to stop the tenants from neglecting
their lands at the expense of their heirs.
6. The tenants lost their money not because of poor harvest
but because of gambling which takes place in the house of
Rizal’s sister.
7. If the tenants failed to pay due to poor harvest and low
prices of agricultural products, the land administrators gave
the tenants a generous amount of time to pay their rent.
After Rizal left Calamba in February 1888,the tenants refused
to pay the rents. The Dominicans tried to persuade them to pay
for a year until they were forced to file a case in court in 1889.
 The tenants won their case in the Justice
of the Peace of Calamba but lost when the
case was appealed at the provincial court in
Santa Cruz,Laguna and then at the higher
tribunal in Manila and ultimately at Supreme
Court in Madrid.
When the tenants refused to obey the
decision of tribunal of Santa Cruz, agents of
the court, supported by a detachment of
soldiers, evicted the families including Rizal’s
family and destroyed around 50 houses.
Departure for
Europe
DELA FUENTE, PAULENE
 The friars exerted pressure on Governor
General Terrero to have Rizal arrested or
deported. The Governor refused to act
seeing that there’s no valid cause to arrest
Rizal.
One day, Terrero summoned to the
Malacañang and advised him to leave the
Philippines for his own good.
While meeting with a seaman, Perfecto
Rufino Riego who later helped him in
 Just before leaving Calamba,
he composed a poem entitled
“Himno al Trabajo” which
commemorated the elevation of
Lipa, Batangas into the status of
villa under the Becerra Law of
1888.
Rizal’s
Second Trip
To
Europ
MARIGONDON, DAN
He Travelled Through Asia
1.In Hong Kong
a.He was met by Jose. Ma Basa and other
Filipinos who were exiled due to the
secularization issue of 1872.
• Jose Ma. Basa, a bitter enemy of the friars,
Basa was exiled to the Marianas in the
wake of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. He later
setup base as a merchant in Hong Kong
from where he smuggled into the
Philippines materials produced by the
b. He studied the Chinese
Language, Chinese Drama and
theater, Chinese cultures, and
Chinese values.
c. He also Visited Macau, a
Portuguese colony near Hong Kong
 He visited Japan
a. He stayed in Yokohama
b. He studied the Japanese Language,
Japanese culture, theaters, martial
arts and he visited shrines.
c. On the way to the United States, on
board a ship, he met Tetcho Suehiro.
 Tetcho
Suehiro
• Suehiro wrote the book Dead
Traveler. In this book, he
described his travel from Japan
to the U.S and his association
with Jose Rizal.
• He wrote another book, Storm
In The United States
• The entire boat was quarantined when it docked in San
Fransisco on April 28, 1888. The reason given was
because the boat came from a land where cholera was
rampant. In reality, it was because the boat carried
several Chinese coolies and laborers who accepted cheap
labor, displacing the American Laborers. This situation
was resolved and the passengers were allowed to
disembark safely.
• He travelled westward through Reno, Utah, Colorado,
Nebraska, Chicago, Albany, and New York City.
Liver
pool,
Engla
BRIONES, DENMARC
 England
• Rizal on May 24, 1888 reached Liverpool,
England and stayed at Adelphi Hotel
• On May 25, 1888 he travelled going to London:
– Rizal stayed at the house of Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor
• An exile of 1872 and a law practitioner in London
– Rizal was introduced to Dr. Reinhold Rozt
• a librarian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an authority of the
Malayan Languages and customs.
His objectives to live
in London:
a) To do research on the Philippine
History
b) To annotate Antonio Morga’s
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a
rare filipino book to be found in
the British Museum.
Par
BRIONES, DENMARC
• He continued his research on PH
history at the Bibliotheque Nationale
• or
Hethe
continued
Nationalon
Library in Paris.
his work on
Sucesos de Las
Islas Filipinas
and soon
published a copy.
• He studied the
French language.
• He founded the Kidlat Club and the
Indios Bravos.
– social clubs which aimed to prove that
Filipinos could excel intellectually and
physically.

• He published Por Telefono

– An answer to Fr. Salvation Font, a
spanish friar who attacked the Noli
Me Tangere
Activities
in
MORATA, KYLE AN
 1. He continued to write El Filibusterismo, his second
novel.
2. He wrote articles for the La Solidaridad.
a. “La Verdad Para Los Todos” or “The Truth for All ” appeared
on the May 31, 1889 issue.
b. “Verdades Nuevas” or “New Truths” was published on July 31,
1889.
c. “Una Profancio” or “A Profanation” which also appeared on the
July 3, 1889 issue.
d. “Diferencias” or “Differences,” September 15, 1889.
e. “Filipinas Dentro de Cien Anos” or “The Philippines a Century
Hence” published in four series, September 30, October 31,
December 15, 1889 and February 1, 1890.
f. “Ingratitudes” which also meant “ingratitudes” in the English
language was published on January 15, 1890.
3. Publication of the El Filibusterismo. Like Noli
Me Tangere, money was very scarce. It was
financed by Valentine Ventura.
4. He receive the news that the members of his
family were deported to different places. They
also lost the agrarian case in Calamba.
5. Publication of El Filibusterismo (For the
summary, see pages 61-63)
 The
Transfer
MORATA, KYLE AN
1. The case of Rizal was elevated to the Supreme
Court in Madrid. Rizal wanted to pay attention to
the case. The Calamba residents were forced to
leave the town, their house were burned, and more
people were exiled, including the entire Rizal family.

2. He wrote a poem entitled “A Mi Musa” (To My

Muse).
 Rivalry between Jose Rizal
and M.H. del Pilar
a. Another group of Filipinos was being formed in
Madrid. This was composed of disgruntled students who
viewed that the members of the Circulo Hispano Filipino
were more inclined to accommodation, moderation, and
politeness toward the Spaniards then actually fighting
for reforms in the Philippines.
b. Another organization was formed, this was the
Association Hispano Filipino. It was headed by Dr. Miguel
Morayta, a Spanish professor and a Masson
Grandmaster. In a meeting to decide where the direction
of the Propaganda was going, the group started with an
• Paciano, his elder brother, advised Jose
not to return to the Philippines but he
compromised that Jose can return to
the east, near enough to his parents
and relatives to visit him but he cannot
be disturbed by the Spaniards. He left
for Hong Kong.
 Productive
Life in
Kong MISOLAS, JOHN MICHAEL M.
1.Jose Ma. Basa initially paid for his fare to Hong
Kong.
2.With his undesirable experience in Madrid, he
decided to leave the political life in Europe and
concentrate on his endeavors.
3.He applied for his license to practice medicine in
Hong Kong and this was granted.
4.He had a reunion with his parents. He supported
them in Hong Kong.
5. His friendship with Dr. Lorenzo P.
Marquez helped him start his
practice in Hong Kong.
6. He went to Sandakan, Borneo to
look for an alternative place for
displaced Calamba farmers.
 7. Writings
a.He translated The Rights of Man written in French to
Tagalog, Ang Mga Karapatan ng Tao,
b.He was never idle as he stayed in one place. He had his
lucrative practice, but he still took time to write.
c. He tried to finish his third novel, Makamisa, in Tagalog
but gave it up. Paciano started translating the Noli Me
Tangere to Tagalog.
d.He wrote “A la Nacion Española” (“To the Spanish
Nation”), an appeal to Spain to right the wrongs done to
the Calamba tenants.
8. Jose Ma. Basa thought of the idea of an organized
group of Filipinos toward the attainment of the liberty
of the people of the Philippines. This was later named
La Liga.
9. Return to the Philippines
a. He wanted to face Gov. Gen. Eulogio Despujol on
the fate of his North Borneo project since the governor
general remained silent on Jose Rizal’s petition.
b. Together with his sister Lucia, Rizal left Hong Kong
and returned to Manila.
Years of Exile
in Dapitan
MISOLAS, JOHN MICHAEL M.
1.On his arrival, he was met by Apolinario Mabini, Andres
Bonifacio, Ambrosio Salvador, Pedro Serrano Laktaw,
Deodato Arellano, and other patriots. They met in Ilaya
street and formed the La Liga Filipina (The Filipino
League).
2.He took a train in Tutuban and visited Malolos, Bulacan;
San Fernando, Pampanga; Tarlac; and Bacolor,
Pampanga.
3.Handbills were found in Lucia’s pillows entitled “Pobres
Frailes.” Jose Rizal admitted that those bills belonged
to him. He was ordered arrested by Despujol.
 4. He was ordered exiled to
Dapitan, North Zamboanga
a.The prisoner was handed over to Captain
Ricardo Carnicero, the political military governor
of Dapitan, an isolated Spanish outpost in
northern Mindanao.
b.One of the passengers was Fr. Pablo Pastells, S.J.
c. He won in a lottery with Captain Carnicero and
Francisco Equilor. He bought land in Talisay. He
had a house, a clinic, and a school constructed
on his land.
d. He continued to correspond and send
various species of plants, animals, and
insects to other European scientists.
e. Animal species named after Jose Rizal:
 Rhacophorus rizali, a frog

 Apagonia rizali, a beetle

f. He constructed a huge relief map of

Mindanao at the town plaza with the help
of Fr. Sanchez.
g. He helped in the livelihood of the people.
 He modeled on invention on a Belgian

example of making bricks.

 He taught the people to run a cooperative to

ensure they have an income from buying and

selling abaca and its products.
h. Poems written while he was in Dapitan:
 “El Canto del Viajero”

 “A Ricardo Carnicero”
i. He did an operation on his mother’s
eyes.
j. He studied the native medicinal plants
of Dapitan so he could prescribe these
to his patients.
k. Mr. George Tauffer was bought to him
in Dapitan with Josephine Bracken.
l. Dr. Pio Valenzuela arrived in Dapitan
with a blind man, Raymundo Mata. Dr.
Valenzuela imparted to Jose Rizal the
m. Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt updated Jose Rizal on
world events. He suggested that Rizal volunteer his
services to the Spanish government and join forces
as a doctor in Cuba as a means to end his exile.
n. Gov. Gen. Ramon Blanco granted Jose Rizal’s
request. On July 30, 1896, he was granted a safe
conduct pass. Rizal returned to Manila on board the
steamer España.
The Final
Chapter
OF HIS LIFE
MISOLAS, JOHN MICHAEL M.
1. While on board the steamer España,
awaiting another ship that will transport him
to Spain and eventually to Cuba, Philippine
Revolution broke out.
2. He was transferred to another ship that left
for Spain.
3. He was arrested while cruising the
Mediterranean Sea. He was in Barcelona,
Spain and was immediately deported back to
Manila.
4. In Manila, he was imprisoned in Fort
Adio