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A Storm of Persecution
A Storm of Persecution
Chapter 9
• “ All that you tell is unfortunately the sad truth and
taken from real life . Just because you tell the truth and
tell it so well, your work has caused fury without
bounds in the clergy, so much so that fray Salvador font
(of Tondo), in December 1887, petitioned in the name
of the clergy that Governor General Terrero should not
allow your book to the Philippines ”
THE EFFECT ON NOLI: TRIALS AND PERSECUTIONS
OF RIZAL`S FAMILY
The fight of the people of calamba against the Dominican hacienda was
not a fight against the church or religion . It was a fight between Spanish
landlords and Filipino tenants , and might just as easily have occurred on
the great secular hacienda . The Dominicans were oppressive landlords at
this period and place not because they belonged to the church but in spite
of it their conduct toward the tenants was treason to their church and to
their Christian professions .
WRIT OF EVICTION
THE TERRIBLE NEWS FROM SATURNINA
SATURNINA -
Saturnina Rizal
Mercado de Hidalgo, or
simply Saturnina
Hidalgo, was the eldest
sister of Dr. José Rizal.
She was married to
Manuel T. Hidalgo, a
native and one of the
richest persons in
Tanauan, Batangas. She
was known as Neneng.
From Saturnina came the terrible news: “Our parents were ordered to get
out of our home. They were told that this action was required by the order
of dispossession and ejectment against them. Paciano, Antonio, Dandoy,
Silvestre, and Teong took the road of banishment to Mindoro at four-thirty
afternoon. Sisa (Narcisa) and I accompanied them to the wall(of Manila)
and waited there until the departure of the steamship Brutus in which the
unfortunate were embarked. We ourselves were not so sorrowful nor did we
lament so much as when Menang (Manuel Hidalgo) was first banished I am
habituated to these sorrow of separation, especially when I think how our
cruel misfortunes will bear fruit for the welfare of all: I fortify my faith
with all you have told me. Our parents are now living with Narcisa.
THE CONTINUING TRIALS
AND
PERSECUTION
There is much wickened, much mischief, in the rank of our
enemies, I realize that we must regard them, not as lion, but as
reptiles. So we must arm ourselves and put on our gloves before
we touch them.There are many reptiles. Rizal wrote to his sister
Soledad these noble words: “I have caused much harm to my
family, but at least there remains to us the consolation of knowing
that the motive is not disgraceful nor does in humiliate anybody.
On the contrary it raises us up and gives us more dignity in the
eyes of our very enemies themselves; to fall with the head high and
the brow serene is not to fall, it is to triumph.
The storm of persecution now broke with even more
terrible fury against Rizal’s family, his town, and as far
as he could be reached, against himself. His works had
already been prohibited in the Philippines. His brother
in-law hidalgo, after being released for good behavior,
was exiled for the second time “without any accusation,
without his knowing any crime of which he was
accused, excepting that he was my brother in-law.
FROM EUROPE TO
HONGKONG
• Rizal had been drawn into a political
controversy among the Filipinos.
• Jose Rizal first try her to appeal the deportation of twenty five
persons from calamba and protection including his family
QUEEN VICTORIA
OF ENGLAND : the
second option for jose
rizal when queen
regent do not approve
his appeal
THE BORNEO PLAN
• Jose Rizal plan was to take his relatives and the 300
families who has been disposed in calamba to borneo.
• Although the first letter of Jose Rizal fail , he writes his second letter to
Despujol trying to pursue him his aid.
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