Life and Works of Rizal
Life and Works of Rizal
Life and Works of Rizal
Lacra, Lyka O.
BPA 2C
August 1, 1896
Rizal wrote on his travel diary, “Spreads out on the beach. There are big houses, some
with galvanized iron roofing. Outstanding are the house of a lady, whose name I
forgotten, which is occupied by the government and another one just begun with ipil
posts.”
Rizal visited a friend and former classmate, Herrero Regidor and Rufina Family. Regidor
was a judge in the province.
He wrote in his diary “I did two operations of strabotomy, one operation on the ears
and another of tumor.”
Rizal wrote, “The voyage was fine. At the right we saw Mactan an Island famous for
what happened to Magellan. The whole afternoon was magnificent… we saw many
islands along our way…the next day, in the morning, we entered Iloilo”
Rizal landed at Iloilo, went shopping in the city and visited Molo.
Off the Molo church he commented: “The church is pretty outside and the interior is
not bad, considering that it had been painted by a lad. The painting are mostly copies
of biblical scenes by Gustave Dore.”
From Iloilo, Rizal’s ship sailed to Capiz After a brief stopover, it proceeded towards to
Romblon until proceeding to Manila.
August 6, 1986 Manila
He missed the regular steamer Isla de Luzon, which sailed to Spain the day before he
arrived in Manila Bay.
While waiting for the next ship for Spain, Rizal was kept as a “guest” on board the
Spanish cruiser Castilla. ----Here Rizal stayed for a month while waiting for another
steamer that will bring him to Spain.
• Fr. Mariano Gil – discovered the secret society (Katipunan) and reported to the Spanish
authorities.
Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan raised the cry of revolution in the hills of Balintawak.
-----tore their cedulas aggravated the discovery.
The day when the state of war was proclaimed in the eight provinces, Rizal received two
letters from Gov. Gen. Blanco.
• These were letters of introduction to the Minister of War and Minister of Colonies
September 2, 1896
Rizal transferred to the steamer Isla de Panay which was sailing for Barcelona, Spain.
September 3, 1896
At last, Rizal’s last trip to Spain begun Among his fellow passengers onboard were Don
Pedro Roxas, a rich Manila Creole Industrialist and his friend—and his son named Periquin.
The following morning Rizal and other passengers went ashore for sightseeing and shopping
for souvenirs.
Rizal wrote: “I have observed some changes, there more Chinese merchants and less
Indians…I bought a Chinese gown,Singapore has changed much since I saw it for the first
time in 1882”
Don Pedro advised Rizal to stay behind too and take advantage of the protection of the
British law.
Rizal ignored it for he believed that the Gov. Gen. has a word of honor.
Don Manuel Camus and several Filipino residents of Singapore also sided with Don Pedro so
that Rizal could save his life.
VICTIM OF SPANISH DUPLICITY -By refusing to break his word of honor in Singapore, Rizal
sealed his own doom.
For without his knowledge, Governor Blanco was secretly conspiring with the Ministers of
War and the Colonies for hid destruction.
For all his wonderful talents, Rizal was after all a mortal man who committed mistakes and
one of his greatest mistake was to believe that Governor General Blanco was a man of
honor and a friend because he allowed him to go as a free man to Spain to become a
physician surgeon of the Spanish army in Cubs, where a bloody revolution was raging and
gave him two nice letters of introduction addressed to the Spanish Ministers of War and the
Colonies.
• Gov. Gen. Blanco, together with the Ministers of Colonies and War were exchanging
telegrams and confidential messages for the arrest of Rizal upon reaching Barcelona and that
he was a deportee and was being secretly kept under surveillance.
The Isla de Panay, with Rizal onboard, left Singapore, unaware of the Spanish duplicity
particularly of Governor General Blanco’s infernal deceit, he happily continued the voyage
towards Barcelona.
September 25,1896
He saw the steamer Isla de Luzon, leaving the Suez Canal with Spanish troops.
A passenger told Rizal the bad news that he would be arrested by order of Governor
General Blanco and would be sent to prison in Cueta (Spanish Morocco), opposite Gibraltar.
Shocked by the news, Rizal realized that he was being duped, he wrote, “there was nothing
official yet about impending arrest; it was still merely shipboard gossip. There are people
on board who do nothing but slander me and invent fanciful stories about me. I’m going
to become a legendary personage.”
He was officially notified by Captain Alemany that he should stay in his cabin until further
orders from Manila. He obeyed orders.
He was arrested by former Gov. Gen. Eulogio Despujol, the man who placed him in exile in
Dapitan now serving as the Military Commander of Barcelona.
October 4, 1986
Rizal noticed the city’s celebration of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
October 6, 1986
Rizal was escorted to the prison-fortress named Monjuich.- an infamous fortress in Madrid
After his stay at Monjuich, he was transferred to a ship named Colon. Rizal was aboard the
Colon which was full of soldiers and officers. On October 6, 8:00 p.m., the ship left
Barcelona.