Chapter 23

Delightful stop overs

Dumaguete

cebu

iloilo

capiz

romblon

isla de luzon - missed this regular steamer

castilla - he was kept as a guess on this

spanish cruiser.

aug 26, 1896 - bonifacio and the katipunan

raise the cry of revolution in hills lf

balintawak.

isla de panay - left for spain on this steamer

on sept 3, 1896.

July 31, 1896 - the espana, rizal and party on

board sailed northward.

Aug 1 - anchored dumaguete

dumaguete - spreads out on the beach. Big

house and outstanding house of a lady.

Hererro Regidor - former classmate, judge of

the province.

periquet and rufina families - families that

rizal visited.

cebu - beautiful.

- rizal did two operation of strabotomy,

ears and tumor.

mateos house - met an old couple.

mactan - island famous for what happened to

magellan.

iloilo - went shoping in the city.

molo church - pretty outside interior not bad.

gustave dore - biblical scenes painted on the

church.

Castilla - cruiser where rizal was transfeered

by the order of Gen Blanco.

- Aug 6 to Sept 2, 1896.

enrique santalo - gallant captain of the

cruiser.

Aug 19, 1896 - the katipunan plot the rev this

day.

Fray Mariano Gil - Augustinian cura of tondo,

discovered the incoming revolution.

Cry of Balintawak - bonifacio and jacinto

Heavy loss in San Juan.

State of war in provinces.

manila

bulacan

cavite

batangas

laguna

pampanga

Nueva Ecija

Tarlac

Worried for two reason:

1.) The violent revolution which he believed

to be premature and would only cost

suffering and deaths, properties.

2.) It would arouse Spanish vengeance.

Passengers of Isla de Panay:

Don pedro Roxas – rich manila Creole

industrialist

Periquin – son of roxas.

Don Manuel Camus – boarded the steamer

and urge Rizal to stay in Singapore to save his

life.

Gov gen Blanco – conspired with the

Ministers of War and the Colonies (Ultramar)

for his destruction.

Sultan Zaide – another victim of Spanish

Intrigue.

Execution of Francisco Roxas, Genato and

Osorio.

Capt. Alemany – notified rizal to stay on his

cabin until further orders from manila.

Sept 30 – the steamer anchored in malta.

Malta castle – three levels.

Oct 3 ’10 AM – Isla de Panay arrived in

Barcelona, with Rizal as a prisoner.

Manila to Barcelona – lasted 30 days.

General Despujol – the military commander

of Barcelona, Rizal’s jailor.

“History stranger than fiction”

St. Francis of Assisi – cannon shot awakened

Rizal, with 31 shots.

Monjuich – Infamous prison Fortress.

Colon – a transport ship.

Chapter 24

October 11 – diary Confiscated

November 2 – diary returned

Oct 12 to Nov 1 – Rizal not able to write

Officer on duty was amiable, refined and

polite.

Dr. Ma. Regidor and Lopez – tried to rescue

Rizal

Hugh Fort – English Lawyer in Singapore

Chief Justice Loinel Cox – denied the writ on

the ground that the colon was carrying

Spanish troops of the Philippines.

Nov 3 – Colon reached manila

People who were brutally tortured:

Arellano

Valenzuela

Salvador

Dizon

Franco

Paez

Laktaw

Paciano – suffered all pains inflicted by the

torturers, body shattered on the torture rack

and left hand crushed by the screw, His Asian

spirit not broken.

Nov 20 – the preliminary investigation

began.

Colonel Francisco Olive – Judge Advocate.

Two Kinds of Evidences:

Documentary

Testimonial

Documentary Evidences:

1. A letter of Antionio Luna to Mariano

Ponce.

2. Letter of Rizal to his Family.

3. Letter from Marcelo H. del Pilar to

Deodato Arellano.

4. Poem entitled Kundiman.

5. Letter of Carlos Oliver to an

unidentified person.

6. Masonic document

7. Letter signed dimasalang to tenluz

(Zulueta)

8. Letter of Dimasalng to an

unidentified committee

9. Anonymous and undated letter to the

editor of the Hong Kong Telegraph.

10. Letter of Ildefonso Laurel to Rizal

11. 2nd

letter of Ildefonso Laurel to Rizal

12. Letter of del Pilar to Don Juan A.

tenluz

13. Transcript of a speech of Pingkian

(Emilio Jacinto), in a reunion of the

Katipunan.”Long live the

Philippines! Long live Liberty! Long

live Doctor Rizal! Unity!”

14. Transcript of a speech of Tik-Tik

(Jose Turiano Santiago) in the same

Katipunan reunion. Katipuneros

shouted “Long live the eminent

Doctor Rizal! Death to the oppressor

nation!”

15. Poem by Laong Laan (Rizal),

entitled A talisay.

Testimonal Evidences by:

Constantino Franco

Del Rosario Arellano

Reyes Ambrosio Salvador

Moises Salvador Laktaw

Dizon Dr. Valenzuela

Salazar Quison

Paez

Capt. Rafael Dominguez – appointed as

special Judge Advocate to institute the

corresponding action against Rizal

Don Nicolas de la Pena – Judge Advocate

General

De la Pena’s recommendations:

1. The accused be immediately brought

to trial

2. He should be kept in prison

3. An order of attachment be issued

against his property to the amount of

one million pesos as indemnity

4. He should be defended by an army

officer, not a civilian lawyer

Dec 8 – Feast day of the Immaculate

Conception, list of 100 first and second

lieutenants was presented to Rizal

Don Luis Taviel de Andrade – first lieutenant

of the artillery. Brother of Jose Taviel (Rizal’s

body guard in calamba)

Gen Camilio G. de Polavieja – became Gov

Gen in the Philippines succeeding Gov

Blanco.

Dec 15 – Rizal wrote a manifesto to his

people appealing to them to stop the

necessary shedding of blood and to achieve

their liberties by means of education and

industry.

Cuartel de Espana – military building where

Rizal was held for the court martial.

Seven members of the military court:

Lt. Col. Jose Togores Arjona (President)

Capt. Ricardo Munoz Arias

Capt. Manuel Reguera

Capt. Santiago Izquierdo Osorio

Capt. Braulio Rodriguez Nunez

Capt. Manuel Diaz Escribano

Capt. Fermin Perez Rodriguez

Present in the Court room:

Rizal (the accused)

Lt. Taviel de Andrade (defense council)

Capt. Rafael Dominguez (Judge Advocate)

Spectators: Josephine Bracken, some

newspaperman, and many Spaniards.

Judge Advocate Domiguez – opened the trial

and explained the cases against Rizal.

Alcocer - Prosecuting Attorney arose and

delivered a long speech summarizing Rizal’s

charges.

Andrade said “the judges cannot be

vindictive; the judges can only be just.”

But the officers were both vindictive and

unjust.

12 points to prove his innocence.

“WRITTEN IN THE BOOK” too

long!!!

Lt. Col. Togores Arjona – considered trial

over and ordered the hall cleared.

Polavieja – signed Rizal’s execution.

7 am 30th

of Dec at field of bagumabayan –

Rizal to be shot

Chapter 25

6 am Dec 29 to 6 am Dec 30 – Rizal was

busy meeting visitors including Jesuit priests,

Josephine Bracken and members of his

family, a Spanish newspaper correspondent

(Santiago mataix)

“Pearl of the Orient Sea” – called in his last

poem

Unfortunate Philippines – article published in

The Hong Kong Telegraph.

Capt. Dominguez – read the death sentence to

Rizal – to be shot at the back by a firing squad

at 7:00 AM in Bagumbayan (Luneta)

Fr. Miguel Saderra Mata (Rector of Ateneo

Municipal) and Fr. Luis Viza, Jesuit teacher

(Statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) – First

visitors of Rizal

Other Priest who visited Rizal:

8:00 AM

Fr. Antonio Rosell

9:00 AM

Fr. Federico Faura

10:00 AM

Fr. Jose Vilaclara (Rizal’s Ateneo teacher)

Fr. Vicente Balaguer (Jesuit missionary)\

Cooking stove – Gift by Paz Pardo de Tavera

Santiago Mataix – Spanish Journalist who

interviewed Rizal for his newspaper El

Heraldo de Madrid

Don Silvino Lopez Tunon – The Dean of the

Manila Cathedra.

Don Gaspar Cestano – Fiscal of the royal

Audiencia of manila.

Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda –

anti-filipino

Wrote two letters

1st family

2nd

Paciano

Imitation of Christ by father Thomas – book

given to Josephine, the unhappy wife

Last letter to his beloved parents

Rizal marched with Andrade and Frs. March

and Vilaclara

Malecon – now Bonifacio Drive

Dr. Felipe Ruiz Castillo – Spanish military

physician asked his permission to feel his

pulse

December 30, 1896 exactly 7:03 AM –

Rizal Died. 35 years 5 months and 11 days.

Spanish Spectators shouted “Viva Espana!

Muerte a lost Traidores”

Marcha de Cadiz – played by the Spanish

military band

Module 11

June 1892 – second homecoming

La liga Filipina

- organized by Rizal with the aid of

Jose Ma. Basa.

- Organized in Tondo, Manila.

Several reasons why Rizal was in Dapitan:

1. One was the founding of the Liga

Filipina

2. Personal Feelings towards Rizal:

Despujol’s destructive feeling and Fr.

Pastell’s constructive feeling.

Dapitan – is a place near Dipolog City in

- Founded by Boholanos

Zamboanga del note located 8.5’N 123’E.

- He stayed for 4 years and 13 days

Museo Biblioteca de Manila – where Rizal

placed historical Documents. One is signed

by Gen Bustamante.

Lagubayan – A prominent citizen in Bohol,

Baclayon, Manasanan and Dawis

- Lord of the Subanos and terror of

Moroland

- Boholano

- Received “Friendship and charity”

Ilihan – Hill of Mindanao.

Dona Ilison – committed treachery.

Baclayon and Dawis – Towns in the island of

Bohol

Dapitan – 800 Families where invited

Da-pit – first syllable means “to invite”

Da-pit – second syllable means “place”

Gratis – Gave medicines to poor patients

through this.

Don Tumarong – paid Php3,000

Don Azcaragga – paid sugar cane

An Englishman paid Rizal Php500

Dapitan – Spirit of Medicine and the setting

of a great physician’s medical practice

Draco Rizali (Dragon fly)

Apogonia Rizali (small beetle)

Rhacophorus Rizali (rare frog)

Anthropology, ethnography, geography,

archeology, and geology – studies the Rizal

conducted

Water system improved by enlarging with

artesian wells.

Crude coconut oil lamps – Dapitan its first

lighting system

6,000 pcs of bricks a day

Butuan – Mail boat

Lottery Ticket No. 9736 Php20,000

Equilior, Carnicero, Rizal

Rizal Php6200 (gave Php2,000 to his father

nad Php200 for Basa)

Php200 in one stroke from selling abaka

Ramon Carreon – a merchant in Dapitan

Rizal himself drafted the constitution, the

aims of which where:

1. Improve the farm products

2. Obtain better outlets for them

3. Collect funds for their purchases

4. Help in establishing a store

Rizal Taught Children with:

1. Value of hard work

2. Character building

3. Respect for human dignity

4. Cooperation

5. Family solidarity

6. Kaayusan

7. Delicadeza

8. Word of honor

9. National unity

10. Reading

11. Writing (English and Spanish)

12. History

13. Geography

14. Mathematics

15. Industrial arts

16. Nature

17. Ethics

18. Plants and animals

19. Sports (boxing, wrestling,

swimming, fencing, boating)

3 house of Rizal in Dapitan: shape

1. Square – where family stayed

2. Hexagonal – livestock

3. Octagonal – classroom

“My Retreat” – written for mother

“Josephine, Josephine” – short poem for

Josephine

“The Song of a Traveler” – out of joy poem

for going to travel again

“Hymn to Talisay” – Poem for the Pupil

George Taufer – Bracken’s accompany

Ktaastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan

nang manga Anak nang Bayan or Katipunan

Dr. Pio Valenzuela – told rizal in Daptian the

a society group named katipunan was

founded.

Rizal made some suggestions concerning

the revolution:

1. There must be unity among all

classes of Filipinos

2. The influential and wealthy Filipinos

must be attracted to the cause of the

society

3. Antonio Luna be appointed for

competent military leadership

“No longer Assimilation to but Separation

from Spain”

Module 12

Rizal’s loves:

1. Julia (Minang)

2. Segunda katigbak

3. Leonor Valenzuela

4. Leonor Rivera (Taimas)

5. O-Sei-San (Seiko Usui)

6. Gertrude Beckett

7. Nelly Boustead

8. Suzanne Thill

9. Josephine Bracken

Corromata – Rizal rode with this

Mariano Katigbak – friend

Segunda –“Pleasant, winsome” and “Air of a

sylph”

Cologio de la Immaculada Conception

Concordia – school where katigbak and

Olympia studied

Dona Concha Leyva – Rizal boarded in this

house during his studies in Sto. Tomas

Capitan Juan and Capitana Sanday

Valenzuela – mother and father of “The

winsome Orang”

Casa Tomasina – boarding house in

Intramuros

- Runned by tio Antonio and tia

betang.

Doble Leonor “Rivera and Valenzuela love

triangle”

Love triangle “Rizal, Rivera and Filipinas”

Rizal “could no longer endure bigotry,

discrimination, and hostility of the school”

Salvadora – steamer bounded for Singapore

Nolime Tangere written in:

1. Madrid

2. Paris

3. Germany

Filibustero (Subversive)

Rizal’s reason for coming back home:

1. Operate on his mother’s eye

2. To serve his oppressed people

3. To find out the effects of noli and

other writings

4. To inquire why Leonor Rivera

remained silent

Charles Henry Kipping – English man whom

Leonor married

Leonor’s Demands:

1. Her mother should stand beside her

in church

2. She should never be asked to sing

3. Piano should remain locked

Carlos Romulo Kipping – Grandson of

Leonor and a Tarlac Governor

Su-mie – art of painting

Arejola – encourage Rizal to merry Nelly

Two reason why Rizal didn’t marry nelly:

1. He didn’t want to convert into a

protestant

2. Her mother did not want Rizal as a

son-in-law

Sir Spitttael – Objected that it was not

Suzanne Jacoby who had an affair with Rizal

instead it was Thill.