Jose Rizal Return To Europe: The Life and Works of Rizal (SSC107N)
Jose Rizal Return To Europe: The Life and Works of Rizal (SSC107N)
Jose Rizal Return To Europe: The Life and Works of Rizal (SSC107N)
TO EUROPE
The Life and Works of Rizal (SSC107N)
LESSON 5 – GROUP PRESENTATION
GROUP MEMBERS:
• DURING HIS STAY, A SPANIARD NAMED JOSE VARANDA WAS FOLLOWING HIM
AROUND. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE WAS ORDERED TO SPY ON RIZAL’S MOVEMENTS.
• ON FEBRUARY 18, 1888, RIZAL AND BASA BOARDED ON THE FERRY STEAMER KIU-
KIANG WHICH IS GOING TO MACAU AND THEY STAYED AT DON JUAN FRANCISCO
LECAROS’ HOME.
JOSE RIZAL’S TRIP TO HONG KONG
• ON THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 19, 1888, RIZAL WITNESSED A CATHOLIC
PROCESSION WHERE DEVOTEES ARE DRESSED IN BLUE AND PURPLE.
• ON FEBRUARY 20, 1888, RIZAL AND BASA RETURNED TO HONG KONG, BOARDED ON
THE SAME FERRY STEAMER KIU-KIANG.
• ON FEBRUARY 22, 1888, RIZAL LEFT HONG KONG AND BOARDED ON AN AMERICAN
STEAMER, OCEANIC, WHICH IS HEADING TO JAPAN.
• ON FEBRUARY 28, 1888, RIZAL ARRIVED AT YOKOHAMA AND HE REGISTERED AT THE
GRAND HOTEL.
• RIZAL THEN MOVED TO TOKYO AND STAYED AT TOKYO HOTEL FROM MARCH 2 TO
MARCH 7.
• ON HIS FIRST DAY IN TOKYO, RIZAL WAS EMBARRASED BECAUSE HE DO NOT KNOW
JAPANESE. THROUGH THIS, HE DECIDED TO STUDY THE LANGUAGE, ALONG WITH
DRAMA (KABUKI), ARTS, MUSIC, AND JUDO.
• EVEN THOUGH RIZAL KNEW THAT HE WAS BEING MONITORED BY THE SPANISH
AUTHORITIES, HE STILL ACCEPTED THE LEGISLATION’S INVITATION FOR TWO (2)
REASONS:
• TO ECONOMIZE HIS LIVING EXPENSES.
• HE HAD NOTHING TO HIDE FROM THE AUTHORITIES.
• LIFE IN LONDON
• HE MET DR. ANTONIO MA. REGIDOR, AN EXILED LAW PRACTITIONER.
• HE BECAME A BOARDER FOR A WEEK IN A HOUSE OWNED BY BECKET FAMILY.
• HE MET DR. REINFOLD FROST, A LIBRARIAN OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS AND AN AUTHORITY ON MALAYAN LANGUAGE AND CUSTOMS.
• WAS IMPRESSED ON RIZAL’S TEAMING AND CHARACTER AND HE GLADLY
RECOMMEND RIZAL TO THE AUTHORITIES OF BRITISH MUSEUM. HE ALSO
CALLED RIZAL “A PEARL OF MAN”
• OBJECTIVES OF LA SOLIDARIDAD:
1. TO ESTABLISHED REFORM FOR OUR COUNTRY.
2. TO SHOW THE UNFORTUNATE CONDITIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES COMMITTED
BY THE SPANIARDS.
3. TO PROMOTE FREE AND PROGRESSIVE IDEAS.
4. TO IMPLEMENT THE PATRIOTIC VISION OF THE FILIPINOS.
• DURING HIS STAY IN LONDON, HE RECEIVED GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS FROM HIS
HOMETOWN:
• PERSECUTION OF FILIPINO PATRIOTS WHO SIGNED THE “ANTI-FRIAR
PETITION OF 1888”
• A PETITION LED BY MARCELO DEL PILAR TO OUST THE FRIARS FROM THE
PHILIPPINES
• PERSECUTION OF THE CALAMBA INCLUDING RIZAL’S FAMILY AND RELATIVES.
• FURIOUS ATTACKS ON RIZAL BY SENATORS SALAMANCA AND VIDA IN THE
SPANISH CORTES AND WENCESLAO RETANA AND PABLO FECED IN SPANISH
NEWSPAPERS.
• A FRIEND OF RIZAL, LAUREANO VIADO, A MEDICAL STUDENT AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS, WAS ARRESTED AND JAILED AT BILIBID PRISON
BECAUSE OF THE COPIES OF NOLI THAT WERE FOUND IN HIS HOUSE.
• RIZAL’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, MANUEL T. HIDALGO, HUSBAND OF SATURNINA WAS
EXILED BY GOVERNOR GENERAL WEYLER TO BOHOL WITHOUT DUE PROCESS
OF LAW.
• RIZAL USED MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE READING ROOM IN OF THE BIBLIOTHEQUE
NATIONALE (NATIONAL LIBRARY) CHECKING UP HIS HISTORICAL ANNOTATIONS ON
MORGA’S BOOK.
• JUNE 24, 1889- A BABY GIRL WAS BORN TO JUAN LUNA AND PAZ PARDO DE TAVERA,
SHE WAS THEIR SECOND CHILD. HER BAPTISMAL GODFATHER WAS RIZAL.
• INDIOS BRAVOS
• IT WAS REPLACED THE EPHEMERAL KIDLAT CLUB.
• ITS MEMBERS PLEDGED TO EXCEL IN INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL PROWESS
IN ORDER TO WIN THE ADMIRATION OF THE FOREIGNERS PRACTICED WITH
GREAT ENTHUSIASM OF THE USE OF SWORD AND PISTOL AND RIZAL TAUGHT
THEM JUDO, AN ASIAN ART OF SELF-DEFENSE, THAT HE LEARNED IN JAPAN.
• R.D.L.M SOCIETY
• SOCIEDAD R.D.L.M. (R.D.L.M SOCIETY) - A MYSTERIOUS SOCIETY FOUNDED BY
RIZAL IN PARIS DURING THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION OF 1889.
JOSE RIZAL’S TRIP TO PARIS, FRANCE
• THE EXISTENCE AND ROLE OF R.D.L.M. SOCIETY IN THE CRUSADE REFORMS ARE
REALLY ENIGMATIC OF NUMEROUS LETTERS WRITTEN BY RIZAL AND HIS FELLOW
PROPAGANDISTS, ONLY TWO MENTIONED THIS SECRET SOCIETY, AS FOLLOWS;
1. RIZAL’S LETTER TO JOSE MARIA BASA, PARIS, SEPTEMBER 21, 1889
2. RIZAL’S LETTER TO MARCELO H. DEL PILAR, PARIS, NOVEMBER 4, 1889
• THE AIM OF THE SECRET SOCIETY, AS STATED BY RIZAL, WAS “THE PROPAGATION
OF ALL USEFUL KNOWLEDGE—SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, AND LITERARY, ETC.—IN THE
PHILIPPINES. EVIDENTLY, THERE WAS ANOTHER AIM THAT IS, THE REDEMPTION OF
THE MALAY RACE.
RIZAL WROTE ARTICLES FOR LA SOLIDARIDAD WHICH WERE:
"LA VERDAD PARA TODOS" (THE TRUTH FOR ALL) - MAY 31, 1889
• THIS WAS RIZAL’S COUNTER TO THE SPANISH CHARGES THAT THE NATIVES
WERE IGNORANT AND DEPRAVED. ON MAY 31, 1889, IT WAS PUBLISHED IN THE
LA SOLIDARIDAD.
• RIZAL FEELS THE URGE TO GO HOME BUT HIS FRIENDS WARN HIM FOR DANGER.
AFTER HEARING THE LOST OF AGRARIAN CASE FROM PACIANO, HE CHANGES HIS
MIND AND PLANS TO RAISE AND DEFEND THE CASE IN MADRID.
( UNA PROFANACION )
• THE FRIARS ALLEGED THAT THE DECEASED HAD NOT MADE ANY CONFESSION
SINCE HIS MARRIAGE TO LUCIA RIZAL, RIZAL’S ELDER SISTER.
JOSE RIZAL
RETURN TO
EUROPE
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL (SSC107N) – LESSON 5