A STORM OF PERSECUTION

(Fermenting The Revolutinary Mind)

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

• From the Philippines came news that Noli Me Tangere

was reaching farther and farther every month. The book
was setting the Filipinos on fire. The friars retaliated by
persecuting Rizal`s relatives and town. Lucia`s husband
, Mariano Herbosa , Died of cholera on May 23 1889 .
The Spanish friar of Calamba would not
allow him to be buried in the cemetery ,
and he had to be buried on a little hill
outside the town .
“The Govenor General in company with the rector of the
University and two Dominicans were here on the 27 th of this
month .. To intimidate the tenants into paying their rent … The
trustee friars Francisco Gobeas, who is in our town today , is
going around telling the people that when Governor General
arrives again . He will order lashed and exiled the persons whom
he designated … The General is sold to the friars body and soul ;
and wherever he goes he is accompanied by two or three of them .
Non of us here is safe .
The next bad news came from druggist Elejorde
of Calamba , “ They have chased your brother in
law off their land , and I hear they are going to do
the same with all your supporters ; they have
accused my brother by putting his faith in Jose
Rizal and so not paying fees for mass
 MANUEL HIDALGO
• Rizal`s Brother in law
• Was a man who
incited the people to
refuse to pay that
cause the unrest in
calamba which was
doubtless partly true
 AUGUST 1890

August 1890 was the time Dr. Jose Rizal reach

Madrid , his heart heavier than it had ever been in
all his sorrowful life.
 THE TURKEY CONTROVERSY

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.

• One group was bent upon making him

the Filipino leader while the other group
railed around Marcelo H. Del Pilar

• A rumors reached him that some of the

Filipinos in madrid were getting money
from the Philippines by using his name.
• Graciano Jaena had been the founder
of La Solidaridad.

• October 18, 1891 – Jose Rizal sailed

for hong kong on the S.S Melbourne
carrying 800 copies of the first
edition of El Filibusterismo.

• Dr. Lorenzo Marques

- A prominent Portuguese physician ,
admired Rizal`s skills as a surgeon
- Dr. Lorenzo assigned rizal to handle
all of his eye cases, and he soon
established a successful practice.
APPEAL TO THE QUEEN
• Queen Maria Christina – an Austrian archduchess who married to
king alfonso of spain in 1879 and who is also the queen regent

• 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.

• To establish a Filipino Colony under the british flag

• The British Governor conceded the filipinos 100,000

acres of land , a beautiful harbor and a good
government for 999 years a free of all charges
• He began to gather his love ones about him
in hong kong in spite of many difficulties.

• December 12 , 1891 he wrote to his sister

Maria that his father Paciano and Bestre
are with him

• Rizal`s mother and sister lucia , pangoy ,

Josefa and Trinidad reached hong kong
after a stormy voyage and much
seasickness
GOVERNOR DESPUJOL :
A Friend or a Traitor ??
EULOGIO DESPUJOL y DUSAY

• Governor Despujol – second governor de la

torre the most liberal executive that the
Philippine ever had in the ninetheenth
century.
• March 17 , 1982 – on governor despujol
birthday , he banished of 13 of the 17
relatives and follower of Rizal exiled in Jolo ,
Sulu
• Jose Rizal write a letter for governor despujol
congratulating and offering him his aid but
there was no reply come from the governor
general . On the contrary the persecution of
calamba continued full force.
RIZAL`S ATTEMPT TO CHANGE
HIS NATIONALITY
• Rizal`s borneo project still remained and it gives his relatives and
neighbors relief.

• Borneo would be an admirable location from which to pursue the

process of education which Jose Rizal believed the Philippines needed
the most .

• Although the first letter of Jose Rizal fail , he writes his second letter to
Despujol trying to pursue him his aid.
THANK YOU
QUESTION :

1. Who is the founder of La Solidaridad ?

2. Who is the second governor de la torre of the Philippines ?
3. Who is the second option of jose rizal if queen regent did not approve his request ?
4. What year did Jose Rizal board the S.S. Melbourne for his voyage to Hong Kong? Include the month
and day
5. When did Mariano Herbosa pass away?
6. Who is the portuguese physician that admire jose rizal`s skill as a surgeon?
7. Who incited the people to refuse to pay the fees for the mass ?
8. When did Dr. Jose Rizal reach madrid ?
9. Saturnina also know as ?
10. When did Jose Rizal wrote to his sister Maria that his father Paciano and Bestre are with him?
ANSWER :
1. Graciano Jaena
2. EULOGIO DESPUJOL y DUSAY
3. Queen Victoria Of England
4. October 18, 1891
5. May 23 1889
6. Dr. Lorenzo Marques
7. Manuel Hidalgo
8. August 1890
9. Neneng
10. December 12 , 1891