DEFENDERS OF NOLI

MarceloH.DelPilar-editor of LaSolidaridad-he published a pamphlet entitled Caiigat Cayo-it meansBe slippery as an Eel FatherFranciscoSanchez-Rizals beloved Jesuit professor Don Segismundo Moret-a former President of the Council of Minister -he read and like the book very much. Rev.VicenteGarcia-a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian of the Manila Cathedral and a Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christby Thomas A Kempis Father Garcia-writing under the penname Justo Desiderio Magalang-he wrote a defense of the Noli which was published in Singapore as an appendix to a pamphlet dated on July18, 1888.

RIZAL AND ANDRADE

Lt. Jose Tavielde Andrade-a Spanish bodyguard,-he was assigned as a bodyguard of Rizal by Governor-General Terrerobetween Lt.Andrade and Rizal,a beautiful friendship bloomed. Calambas Agrarian Trouble-Governor-General Terrero, influenced by a certain facts in Noli Me Tangere, ordered a government investigation of the friars estates to remedy whatever iniquities might have been presents in connection with land taxes and with tenant relations.

FAREWELL TO CALAMBA
The friars asked Governor General Terrero to deport him, but latter refused because there was no validcharge against Rizal in court. Rizal was compelled to leave Calamba for two reasons: (1) his presence in Calamba was jeopardizing the safety and happiness of his family and friends (2) he could fight better his enemies and serve his countrys cause with greater efficacy by writing in foreign countries.

A POEM FOR LIPA

Before Rizal left Calamba in 1888 his friend from Lipa requested him to write a poem in commemoration of the towns elevation to a villa (city), by virtue of the Becerra Law of 1888. He wrote a poem this was the (Hymn to Labor). He finished it and sent to Lipa before his departure from Calamba.