RIZAL’S EXILE IN DAPITAN ( 1st slide)
July 17, 1892 – Rizal, together with his guard Captain Ricardo Carnicero,
arrived in Dapitan.
Rizal was given the choice to live in the house of the parish priest, Fr.
Antonio Obach or at Cornicero’s house.
He could live in the priest’s quarter’s only if:
- He publicly retracted his Masonic and antichurch beliefs,
- He regularly participate in church rites,
- He conduct himself as a good Spanish subject and a man of religion.
Rizal made him a bust and compose a poem in his honor A Don Ricardo
Cornicero on his birthday on August 16, 1892.
LIFE IN TALISAY (2nd slide)
Both men betted on lottery and won 20,000 pesos with the lottery ticket
number 9736.
He used his money to build an octagonal house made up of bamboo and
nipa in Talisay.
Rizal built a school and accepted students with no tuition.
The other part is used for his eye clinic.
He also built a house for the ladies in his family who were free to visit him
in Dapitan.
Carnicero also wrote a letter to Governor General to allow his mother and
sisters to join him in Dapitan.
LIFE IN TALISAY (3rd slide)
May 4, 1893 – Don Carnicero was replaced by Captain Juan Sitges.
He did not want living with a deportee.
He assign Rizal to live in a house near the headquarters.
The Jesuits send his old professor at the Ateneo, Fr. Francisco de Paula
Sanchez, to entice him back to the Church.
He help clean up the plaza of Dapitan and lit it up at night with coconut oil
lamps.
Rizal fell inlove with the eighteen year old Josephine Bracken.
LIFE IN TALISAY (4th slide)
Rizal and Josephine tried to have themselves married in Catholic rites but
Fr. Obach required that Rizal retract his beliefs.
Rizal’s relatives and friends looked at Josephine with suspicion and
condescencion.
Pablo Mercado – a spy of the friars who posed as Rizal’s relative ( Florencio
Namaan- his true name ).
Pio Valenzuela - an emissary of Andres Bonifacio, he was aking for advice
on how to launch a revolution. He offered to have the Katipunan assist him
in escaping from Dapitan.
Rizal objected to the projected revolution, the revolutionaries must have
enough arms and weapons.
THE END OF THE DAPITAN EXILE ( 5th slide)
When Cuba was under revolution and raging yellow fever epidemic, Rizal
wrote to Governor General Ramon Blanco offering his service as a military
doctor.
Governor General Ramon Blanco approved the request of Rizal on July 1,
1896.
At the midnight of that day, he left aboard the steamer España.
The townspeople of Dapitan wept because they considered Rizal as a good
son and neighbor.
He stayed in Dapitan for four years, thirteen days and few hours.
(6th slide)
August 6, 1896 – upon arriving in Manila Bay, Rizal was not able to leave
immediately for Spain since the vessel Isla de Luzon already left.
He was transferred to Spanish cruiser Castilla and stayed their for a month
from August 6 to September 2, 1896.
August 19, 1896 – the Katipunan plot to overthrow the Spanish rule by
means of revolution. It was discovered by Fr. Mariano Gil after Teodoro
Patino’s disclosure of organization’s secret.
At that time, Katipunan was already discovered and the Philippine
Revolution was already raging.
(7th slide)
August 26, 1896 – Bonifacio and Katipunan raised the Cry of Revolutiion
(Sigaw sa Pugadlawin) in the hills of Balintawak, a few miles North of
Manila.
In the afternoon, Governor General Blanco proclaimed a state of war in the
first eight provinces for rising arms against Spain.
Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and
Tarlac.
Rizal received letters from Governor General Blanco which absolved him
from all the blame for the raging revolution.
He transferred to Isla de Panay which which was sailing for Barcelona Spain.
Don Pedro Roxas advised Rizal to stay and take advantage of the protection
of British Law.
