Among them were Don Ignacio Tumarong who gave Rizal 3000 pesos for restoring his sight, an Englishman who gave him 500 pesos, and Aklanon haciendero, Don Francisco Azcarraga, who paid him a cargo of sugar. However, he also had wealthy patients who paid him well enough for his excellent surgical skill. § As a physician, Rizal provided free medicine to his patients, most of them were underprivileged. His careers and achievements in different fields were as follows: Rizal had maximized his stay in Dapitan by devoting much of his time in improving his artistic and literary skills doing agricultural and civic projects engaging in business activities, and writing letters to his friends in Europe, particularly to Ferdinand Blumentritt and Reinhold Rost. These series of debate ended inconclusively in which neither of them convinced the other of his judgments/arguments. Father Pastells tried his best to win Rizal back to the faith but fortunately or unfortunately, in vain. This exchange of heated arguments revealed the anti-Christian Rizal – his bitterness on the abuses performed by friars, doing such under the name of the sacred religion. In Dapitan, Rizal had a scholarly debate with Father Pablo Pastells regarding religion. His stay in the province was more than “he” living in exile – it was the period when Rizal had been more focused on serving the people and the society through his civic works, medical practices, land development and promotion of education. From that day until July 31, 1896, Dapitan became the bare witness to one of the most fruitful periods in Rizal's life. for simply criticizing the religion and aiming for its exclusion from the Filipino culture.Īboard the steamer Cebu and under heavy guard, Rizal left Manila, sailing to Mindoro and Panay, until he reached Dapitan at seven o'clock in the evening of June 17. 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)” andĤ. for having in possession a bundle of handbills, the Pobres Frailes, in which advocacies were in violation of the Spanish orders ģ. for publishing anti-Catholic and anti-friar books and articles Ģ. (For a more comprehensive discussion on the La Liga Filipina, click here).įour days after the civic organization's foundation, Jose Rizal was arrested by the Spanish authorities on four grounds:ġ. As he had planned, on Jhe founded the La Liga Filipina in the house of Doroteo Ongjunco in Tondo, Manila. His popularity feared the Spaniards, and as such, payed careful attention to his every moves – all houses where he had been were searched and the Filipinos seen in his company were suspected. Jose Rizal's arrival in Manila on Jhad become very sensational among the Filipinos.
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