Rizal's Life,

Works and
Writings
Exile, Trial, and Death
 BITTER-SWEET LIFE IN DAPITAN

• Rizal opted to live at the commandant’s residence called

“Casa Real.”
• Rizal wrote a poem A Don Ricardo Carnicero
• Manila Lottery ticket no. 9736, second prize of
PhP 20, 000
 BITTER-SWEET LIFE IN DAPITAN

• Three houses made of bamboo, wood and nipa.

• square in shape
• Hexagonal
• Octagonal
• Additional huts
 DAILY LIFE AS AN EXILE

• Medicine
• Taught some pupils
• Engaged in farming and horticultural
 RIZAL AND JESUITS

• Jesuits offered Rizal to live in the Dapitan convent under the

conditions
• He refused to compromised
• Jesuit Order assigned to Dapitan the priest Francisco de Paula Sanchez
• Priest Pablo Pastells made some attempts by correspondence to win
over to Catholicism the exiled physician.
 ACHIEVEMENT IN DAPITAN

• Improving the town’s drainage and constructing better water ways

• Taught the town folds about the health and sanitation
• Bettered the forests there
• Invented wooden machine for the mass production of bricks
• Treated all patients
 AS A SCIENTIST IN DAPITAN

• Archaeological excavations
• Inspected Dapitan’s rich flora and fauna
• Dapitan Frog (Rhacophorus rizali)
• A type of bettle (Apogonia Rizali)
• Flying dragon (Draco Rizali)
 ACHIEVEMENT IN DAPITAN

• Study of language, culture and literature

• Examined the local folklores, customs, Tagalog grammar and
Malay language
 SPIES AND SECRET EMISSARY

• Separist and an insurgent

• Matias Arrieta revealed his mission
• In march 1895, Pablo Mercado introduced himself to Rizal
• Turned out the his real name was Florencio Nanaman of
Cagayan de Misamis
• Doctor Pio Valenzuela was sent to Dapitan by Andres Bonifacio
 VISITED BY LOVED ONES

• Leonor Rivera had died

• August 1893, Dona Teodora, along with daughter Trinidad, joined
Rizal in Dapitan and resided with him in his casa cuadrada
 VISITED BY LOVED ONES

Experienced living for some tiem with exiled uncle in Mindanao

• Moris
• Lucia
• Osio
• Angelica
 VISITED BY LOVED ONES

• Josephine Bracken came to Jose’s life

• Jose took Josephine as his common-law wife
• Before the end of 1895, the couple had a child who
was born prematurely.
• Francisco died a few hours after birth.
 ADIOS, DAPITAN!

• Cuba was raged by a yellow-fever epidemic

• July 30, 1896, Rizal received a letter from the governor-genral
sanctioning his petition to serve as a volunteer physician in Cuba
FROM DAPITAN TO TRIAL IN FORT SANTIAGO

Manila on July 31, 1896, the steamer España

 IN MANILA

• There was an attempt by the Katipuneros to help Rizal escape

• The Katipunero Emilio Jacinto and Guillermo Masankay
• Rizal arrived in Manila on August 6, 1896
• August 19, 1896, The Katipunan plot to revolt against the Spanish
authorities was discovered through the confession of a certain Teodoro
Patiño to Mariano Gil.
 GOING TO SPAIN

• Rizal as a prisoner onboard, the Isla de Panay anchored at Barcelona

on October 3, 1896.
 LAST HOMECOMING

• Arriving in Manila as a prisoner on November 3, 1896, Rizal was

detained in Fort Santiago where he had been imprisoned for four years.
• Colonel Francisco Olive, one of the judges.
 LAST HOMECOMING

• Fifteen pieces of documentary evidence were presented

• Rizal’s letters
• Letters of his compatriots
• A poem (Kundiman)
• A Masonic document
• Two transcripts of speech of Katipuneros
• Rizal’s poem Talisay
 LAST HOMECOMING

• Oral testimonial evidence

• Oral testimonies of 13 Filipinos
• La Liga offers like Ambrosio Salvador
• Deodato Arellano
• Katipunero Pio Valenzuala
 LAST HOMECOMING

• The formal charges were read to Rizal in his prison cell.

• Expectedly the entire defense was indifferently disregarded in Rizal’s
mock trial as it instantaneously considered him guilty.
 DECEMBER 30, 1896

On December 28, Governor-General Polavieja signed the

court decision and decreed that the guilty be executed by
firing squad at 7am of December 30, 1896 at Bagumbayan.
 REFERENCES:

Manebog, D.G.J., Paragas, R.Y., Barrientos, M.O.B., Francisco, Rosario., Life Works of Dr. Jose P.
Rizal. Mutya Publishing House

Pangilinan, M.C., Igloria, M.C., Pasague, E.A., The Life and Works of Rizal. Mindshapers Co., Inc

Ariala, M.M., The Life and Works of Rizal. . Unlimited Books Library Services and Publishing Inc.
RZL101: RIZAL'S
LIFE, WORKS AND
WRITINGS
Instructor: Decca Patricia P. Driz, LPT
drizdeccapatricia@mseuf.edu.ph