On the way to the orient

On October 18.1891, Jose Rizal decided to go

home.
The Steamship went to different stopovers:
Alexandria, Aden and Colombo.
Rizal arrived on Hong Kong on November 20,
1891
In Hong Kong, Rizal stayed at Victoria Hotel.
Rizal also practiced medical in order to support
himself and his family in Hong Kong.
Dr. Lorenzo P. Marques introduced his clients to
Rizal.
Dr. Jose Rizal became a well-known medical
practitioner in Hong Kong.
Reasons why Rizal returned to Manila
To confer with Governor Despujol
regarding his Borneo Colonization project.
To establish La Liga Filipina in Manila.
To prove that Eduardo de letes accusations
was wrong.
Rizal In Manila
While Jose Rizal was aboard the SS Melbourne
for Manila, the Spanish authorities were
planning to arrest him.
Upon his departure in Hong Kong, the Spanish
consul general immediately sent a cablegram to
Spanish Governor-General Despujol.
Five days before the arrival in Manila, the
Spanish authorities filed a case against Rizal and
his followers.
The Spanish Governor-General also made sure
that Rizal had not acquired German citizenship.
On June 26, 1892 at 12 o clock noon. Rizal
arrived at Manila with his sister Lucia.
He decided to personally visit Governor-General
Despujol in Malacanang Palace only to know that
the Governor-General was unavailable.
Visiting friends in Central
Luzon
On June 27, 1892 at 6pm, Rizal boarded a train in
Tutuban Station and visited his friends in Malolos
(Bulacan), Tarlac (Tarlac), and Bacolor (Pampanga).
He was warmly welcomed and entertained at the
homes of his friends.
On June 28, 1892 at 5 o clock in the afternoon, Rizal
returned to Manila.
Whether he knew it or not, he was shadowed by
government spies who watched carefully his every
movement.
The homes he has visited was raided by the
Guardia Civil, which seized some copies of Noli and
Fili and some subversive Pamphlets.
After Rizals visit to his friends in Central Luzon, he
had other interviews with Governor-General
Despujol.
Establishments of La Liga
Filipina
On the evening of Sunday, July 3, 1892, Rizal
attended a meeting of the patriots at the home of
Chinese-Filipino mestizo, Doroteo Onjunco, on
Ylaya Street, Tondo, Manila.
Among those presents were:
Pedro Serrano Luis Villareal
Domingo Franco Faustino Villaroel
Jose A. Ramos Mariano Crisostomo
Ambrosio Salvador Estanislao Legaspi
Bonifacio Arevalo Teodoro Plata
Deodato Arellano Andres Bonifacio
Ambrosio Flores Apolinario Mabini
Agustin De La Rosa Juan Zulueta
Moises Salvador
Rizal explained the objectives of the Liga Filipina, a
civic league of Filipinos, which he desired to
establish and its role to socio-economic life of
people. He presented the constitution of the Liga
which he had written in Hong Kong and discussed
its provisions.
It was governed by Supreme Council that had a
national jurisdiction which was composed of a
president, a secretary, a tresurer, and a fiscal.
It also had a provincial and popular council
Officer of the Supreme Council:
Ambrosio Salvador President
Deodato Arellano Secretary
Bonifacio Arevalo Tresurer
Agustin De La Rosa Fiscal
Rizal in Fort Santiago
Three days after his last meeting with Governor-General
Despujol, Rizal was arrested and detained in Fort Santiago
While he was presenting his proposals for socio-political
reforms, Governor-General Despujol presented pamphlets
which contained subversive leaflets written by Father Jacinto-
Pobres Frailes ( Poor Friars).
Jose Rizal denied the accusation of Despujol that neither he
nor Lucia possessed this subversive material; he argued that
they were cleared even before they arrived n the Philipines
from Hong Kong.
Exile in Dapitan
Rizal wrote and published several subversive literary
works such as the Noli and El Fili.
The retrieval of anti-government leaflets in their baggage
when they arrived in Manila from Hong Kong.
Rizals El Filibusterismo was dedicated to GOM-BUR-ZA.
The Spanish authorities also argued that the main
purpose of his literary masterpieces as to separate the
Philippines from the spiritual ideologies of the church.
The Steamer Cebu which brought Rizal to Dapitan
carried a letter from Father Pablo Pastells, Superior of
the Jesuit Society in the Philippines. To Father Antonio
Obach, Jesuit Parish Priest in Dapitan. In this letter,
Father Superior Pastells informed Father Obach that
Rizal could live at the parish convent on the following
comditions.
Jose Rizal, Ricardo Carcinero, and Francisco Esquillor won
the second prize in Manila Lottery, which amounted to
20,000 pesos.
The result of the Manila Lottery was carried by a mail boat
named Butuan; it was mistaken by Carcinero as a vessel of
high Spanish official.
The Cash prize was divided into three; Jose Rizal got his
share with the amount of 6,600 pesos.
He spent half of the price money acquiring, titling, and
developing neglected piece of seaside property; he sent the
other half to his father.
The debate between Rizal and Father Pastells
started when the friar asked him to refrain from
practicing his anti-Catholic beliefs.
While in Dapitan, Father Pastells attempted to
bring back Rizal into Catholicism.