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3 - Finals Lec 2 - Last Trip Abroad Homecoming
3 - Finals Lec 2 - Last Trip Abroad Homecoming
DOCTOR IN CUBA
• Rizal offered his services as a military doctor in Cuba, which
was then in the middle of yellow fever epidemic. He act upon
Blumentritt’s advice to volunteer and he wrote a letter to
General Ramon Blanco on December 17,1895. On July 1,1896,
an acceptance letter arrived in Dapitan. Rizal would be given a
pass so that he could come to Manila and travel to Spain.
RIZAL AND THE KATIPUNAN
• Katipunan was a secret revolutionary society founded by Andres Bonifacio on
July 7,1892. In a secret meeting of the Katipunan on May 2,1896, Pio Valenzuela
was assigned to inform Rizal of the plan to launch a revolution. Dr. Valenzuela
arrived in Dapitan on June 21,1896 and told him of the Katipunan plan.
• Rizal objected Bonifacio’s plan and disapproved the plan of Katipunan to rescue
him.
• Rizal’s four-year exile in Dapitan ended on July 31,1896.
August 1, 1896, Steamer Espana, where Rizal was on board,
anchored at Dumaguete - capital of Negros Oriental. In
Dumaguete, he visited Herrero Regidor and the Rufina Family.
PHILIPPINE • August 26, 1896: the Katipunan raised and cry of revolution in the hills of
Balintawak.
REVOLUTION • August 30: the revolutionists attacked San Juan, near the city of Manila, but they were
STARTED repulsed with heavy losses.
• Governor General Blanco proclaimed a state of a war in the first eight provinces
for rising in arms against Spain-Manila.
LAST HOMECOMING AND TRIAL
• On September 2,1896, Rizal was transferred to steamer Isla de Panay which
was sailing for Barcelona. The steamer left Manila on September 3.
• The steamer arrived on September 7 in Singapore.
• While Rizal was in Singapore, he didn’t know that Governor General Blanco
was secretly conspiring with the Ministers of Wars and the Colonies for his
destruction. He was unaware that since his departure from Manila Bay on his
way to Spain, there was a plan of his arrest upon reaching Barcelona and that
he was a deportee and was being secretly kept under surveillance.
October 3, 1896: Rizal’s steamer
On Oct. 8, 1896, a friendly officer told
arrived in Barcelona. He became a Rizal that the Madrid newspapers were
prisoner on board as he was confined full of stories about the bloody revolution
in his cabin. He was kept under heavy in the Philippines and were blaming him
guard in his cabin. for it.
If according to
witnesses the speech
he delivered
If the Spanish at Doroteo
authorities found Ongjunco's house had
his letters having He lived an inspired the
After the first revolution, then he
If the La Liga had a bitter atmosphere, exemplary life in
meeting of La Liga, If the La Liga was want to confront
revolutionary it was because in Dapitan – the these persons. If he
the association reorganized nine
purpose, then 1890 his family was politico-military really was for the
banished because months later, he
Katipunan should being persecuted commanders and revolution, then why
of his exile in had no idea about
not have been resulting to their missionary priests did the Katipunan sent
Dapitan, thus, did it an unfamiliar emissary
organized. dispossession of in the province
not last long. to him in Dapitan? It is
properties and could attest to that.
deportation of all so because all his
friends were aware
his brothers-in-law. that he never
advocated violence.
POLAVIEJA SIGNS RIZAL’S
EXECUTION
• He was sentenced to be
shot until death at 7 o'clock
in the morning of
December 30, 1896 at
Bagumbayan.