Chapter 10 Rizal
Chapter 10 Rizal
Chapter 10 Rizal
THE ENTRAPMENT
RIZAL’S ARRIVAL IN MANILA
• Rizal arrived in Manila, accompanied by his sister
Lucia on June 26, 1892. They were met at the dock
by several carabineers and a major.
• Their baggage was searched at the customs house.
But those who searches the baggage carried to the
governor generals office a package of seditious paper
that they found in the pillow case of Lucia .
• The package included copies of a track called The
poor friars, a caustic attack on the Dominicans .
THE FOUNDING OF LA LIGA FILIPINA
• On the night of Rizal’s arrival in Manila, Rizal met over thirty
distinguished Leaders, including Apolinario Mabini & Andres
Bonifacio and outlined his plan in organizing the new League of
“LA LIGA FILIPINA”.
• It’s constitution named these five purposes:
1) Unity of the whole archipelago into one compact, vigorous ,
& homogenous body.
2) Mutual protection in every grievance & need.
3) Defense against violence & injustice.
4) Encouragement of instruction , industrial, & agricultural
enterprises
5) The study of reforms , putting them into practice
• Though the League constitution contained not one seditious
sentence , the fact that it began among the members of the
Masonic order in Manila & that it was a secret organizations
somewhat rescembling Masonry & enough to bring it under
the suspicion of the Government.
• The league contained provisions with a despotic government
would find intorelable such as:
THE MEMBERS MUST:
1) Guard in absolute secrecy the decisions of the league councils
2) Not submit to humiliation nor treat anybody with disdair
3) Obey unquestioningly & punctually every command that
emanates from a league councilor or chief.
• July 3, 1892 , the La Liga Filipina was
formally established.
• When the boat bearing Rizal reached the lovely bay of Dapitan,
Rizal was taken ashore and a letter had gone with his boat from
Padre Pablo Pastells, Superior of the Jesuit missions in the
Philippines , saying that Rizal might dwell in the house of Fr.
Francisco Sanchez , the Jesuit missionary, on the following
conditions :
• That Rizal publicly retracted his errors concerning religion and
made statement that were clearly pro-Spanish and against revolution
• That he performed the church rites and made general confession of
his past life
• That henceforth he conducted himself in exemplary manner as a
Spanish subject and a man of religion
• But Rizal did not agree to these conditions and
so was placed in the home of the commandant,
Ricardo Carnicero.
• The incarceration of Rizal coincided with the
rise of the revolutionary Katipunan. Bonifacio
listed Rizal as a honorary president even
though Rizal was no longer an effective
revolutionary but Rizal was still an important
patriot.
• For the years of Rizal's exile in Dapitan ,
Rizal was loved by the local people. He was
able to influence the thinking of the
commandant who shared the view that Rizal
needed his personal freedom.