Chapter 10 – First Homecoming, 1887-88 1. Why Should I not Read Them?

2. Beware of Them. Why?

Rizal is determined to return to the Philippines for the following
3. And What Can You Tell Me of Plague?
reasons:
4. Why Do the Impious Triumph?
1. To operate on his mother’s eyes 5. Do You Think There Is Really No Purgatory?
2. To serve his people who had long been oppressed by 6. Is There or Is There No Hell?
Spanish tyrants 7. What Do You Think of These Libels?
3. To find out for himself how the Noli and his other 8. Confession or Damnation?
writings were affecting the Filipinos and Spaniards in
Fr. Jose Rodriguez
the Philippines.
4. To inquire why Leonor Rivera remained silent Vicente Barrantes – La Espana Moderna
July 15, 1887 – embark 1. Marcelo H. del Pilar
2. Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor
August 15, 1887 – arrive
3. Graciano Lopez Jana
July 3, 1887 – boarded the steamer Djemnah 4. Mariano Ponce

50 passengers – 4 Englishmen, 2 Germans, 3 Chinese, 2 Vicente Garcia

Japanese, many Frenchmen, and 1 Filipino
Taviel de Andrade
July 30 – boarded Haiphong, August 2 left Saigon
1. The death of his older sister, Olimpia
August 5, 1887 – Rizal arrived at Manila 2. The groundless tales circulated by his enemies that
he was “a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, a
He found Manila the same as when he left it 5 years ago Protestant, a Mason, a witch, a soul beyond salvation,
August 8, 1887 – Rizal arrived to Calamba etc”

Could not perform any surgical operations because her eye

cataracts were not yet ripe • His presence in Calamba was jeopardizing the safety
Doctor Uliman and happiness of his family and friends
• He could fight better his enemies and serve his
P900, P5000 country’s cause with greater efficacy by writing in
foreign countries
Governor General Emilio - Noli contain subversive ideas
Hymn to Labor
1. Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez
2. Fr. Jose Bech
3. Fr. Federico Faura
“Everything in it was the truth”, “You may lose your head for it”
Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria
Archbishop Payo
“heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religious order, and
anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious of the govt of
Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political
order”
Permanent Commission of Censorship, Fr. Salvador Font
“that the importation, reproduction and circulation of this
pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited”