Rizal's Life: Second Homecoming and Life in Exile

LESSON Four. Rizal's Life: Second Homecoming and Life in Exile

One. La Liga Filipina Two. Life in Dapitan Three. The Last Trip Abroad

José Rizal

Eighteen ninety-two, July three

Tondo, Manila (House of Doroteo Ongjuco)

. Rizal founded the La Liga Filipina.

. Build a new group that seeks to involve the people directly in the reform movement.

Eighteen ninety-two, July six

Rizal was arrested on four grounds:

One. for publishing anti-Catholic and anti-friar books and articles;

Two. for having in possession, a bundle of handbills, the Pobres Frailes, in which advocacies were in violation of the Spanish orders;

Three. for dedicating his novel, El Filibusterismo to the three "traitors" (Gomez, Burgos and Zamora) and for emphasizing on the novel's title page that "the only salvation for the Philippines was separation from the mother country (referring to Spain)";

Four. for simply criticizing the religion and aiming for its exclusion from the Filipino culture.