LAST TRIP ABROAD (1896)
 No longer in exile, Rizal had a pleasant trip from
Dapitan to Manila with delightful stopovers in
Dumaguete, Cebu, Iloilo, Capiz, and Romblon.
 He missed the regular steamer Isla de Luzon
which sailed to Spain the day before he arrived
in Manila Bay while waiting for the next ship for
Spain, he was kept as a guest´ onboard the
Spanish cruiser Castilla.
 August 26, 1896, Andres Bonifacio and the
Katipunan raised the cry of revolution in the
hills of Balintawak a few miles north of Manila.
 Rizal, worried about the raging hostilities, left
for Spain on the steamer Isla de Panay.
September 3, 1896. It was his last trip abroad.
From Dapitan to Manila.
 Leaving Dapitan at midnight, July 31, 1896, the
España with Rizal and party on board, sailed
northward.
 August 1- it anchored at Dumaguete, capital of
Negros Oriental,
 “Dumaguete” wrote Rizal his Travel diary
“Spreads out on the beach. There are big
houses, some with galvanized iron roofing”
 While inn Dumaguete, Rizal visited a friend and
former classmate, Herrero Regidor (the judge of
the province),Periquet and Rufina family.
 Espana left Dumaguete about 1PM and reached
Cebu the following morning
WHILE IN CEBU
1. Rizal was fascinated by the entrance to Cebu
which he considered beautiful´.
2. At the house of Attorney Mateos. He met an old
couple whom he had known in Madrid
3. In Cebu. He wrote in his diary, I did two
operations of strabotomy, one operation on the
ears, and another of tumor´
 August 3, Rizal left Cebu going to Iloilo. ‘The
voyage was fine. At the right we saw Mactan an
island famous for what happened to Magellan.
(Isla Naburot)
 In Iloilo – He went shopping, visited Molo and
the Molo church
 From Iloilo, Rizal ship sailed to Capiz then Manila
via Romblon
RIZAL MISSES SHIP GOING TO SPAIN
 August 6, 1896 – Espana arrived in Manila Bay in
the Early Morning
 Unfortunately, Rizal was not able to catch the mail
ship Isla de Luzon for Spain because it had departed
the previous day at . He was greatly disappointed,
but he took this unlucky incidence with abiding
resignation.
 Near midnight of the same day. August 6
Rizal was transferred to the Spanish cruiser Castilla
by order of Governor General Ramon Blanco.
 Was given good accommodation by gallant captain
Enrique Santalo
 Santalo told him that he was not a prisoner, but a
guest detained on board “in order to avoid
difficulties from friends and enemies”
 He stayed on the cruiser from Aug 6 – Sept 12
1896pending the availability of Spanish-bound
streamer
OUTBREAK OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
August 19, 1896 - The Katipunan plot to overthrow
Spanish rule by means of revolution was discovered by
Fray Mariano Gil Augustinian cura of Tondo
“Cry of Balintawak”
- Aggravated the tumult produced by the
discovery of the katipunan plot
- Raised by Andres Bonifacio and his valiant
Katipuneros on August 16,1896
 August 30 The revolution led by Bonifacio and
Jacinto attacked San Juan near the city of
Manila, but they were repulse with heavy losses
 In the afternoon, after the Battle of San Juan,
Governor General Blanco proclaimed as tate of
war in the first eight provinces for rising in arms
against Spain Manila (as province), Bulacan
Cavite Batangas Laguna Pampanga Nueva Ecija
Tarlac Manila Rizal learned of the eruption of
the revolution and the raging battles around
Manila through the newspaper he read the
Castilla.
Rizal He was worried for two reasons:
(1)The violent revolution which he sincerely believed to
be premature and would only cause much suffering and
terrible loss of human lives and property, had started
(2) It would arouse Spanish vengeance against all
Filipino patriots
DEPARTURE FOR SPAIN
August 30, 1896 - The day when the state of war was
proclaimed in the eight provinces, Rizal received from
Governor General Blanco two letters of the introduction
for 1. The Minister of War 2. The Minister of Colonies
with a covering letter which absolved him from all
blame for raging revolution.
September 2 – The day before his departure Rizal, on
board the Castilla, wrote to his mother
 @ 6PM Rizal was transferred to the steamer Isla de
Panay which was sailing for Barcelona, Spain. The
next morning, September 3, the steamer left
Manila Bay. At last, Rizal's last trip to Spain began.
Among his fellow passengers onboard were Don
Pedro Roxas (rich Manila Creole Industrialist and
his friend) and his son named Periquin
 On the eye of the departure, he wrote to his
mother “Do not worry about anything; we are all in
the hands of the Divine Providence. Not all who go
to Cuba die doing some goo”
RIZAL IN SINGAPORE
September 7 - The Isla de Panay arrived at Singapore .
The following morning Rizal and other passengers went
ashore for sightseeing and shopping for souvenirs. In
the travel diary, Rizal wrote: ‘I have observed some
changes: There more Chinese merchants and less
Indians. . . I bought a Chinese gown. . . Singapore has
changed much since I saw it for the first time in 1882’.
 He advised Rizal to stay behind by Don Pedro and
take advantage of the protection of the British law.
Rizal did not heed his advice.
 Don Manuel Camus and several Filipino residents of
Singapore, urging him to stay in Singapore to save his
life. He also ignored the appeal because he had given
his word of honor to Governor General Blanco and
he did not like to break it.
VICTIM OF SPANISH DUPLICITY
 By refusing to break his word of honor in
Singapore, Rizal sealed his own doom.
 For without his knowledge, Governor Blanco was
secretly conspiring with the Ministers of War and the
Colonies for his destruction
 Rizal proved to be as gullible as Sultan Zaide, another
victim of Spanish intrigue.
 He believe that Governor General Blanco was a
friend because he allowed him to go as a free man to
Spain to become a physician-surgeon of the Spanish
army in Cuba
 Blanco regarded Rizal as a “dangerous Filipino” and
that Rizal was responsible for the raging Philippine
revolution, and therefore plotted his doom
 Rizal was unaware that since his departure from
Manila bay on his way to Spain, that Blanco and the
Ministries of War and the Colonies were exchanging
telegrams for his arrest upon reaching Barcelona
RIZAL ARRESTED BEFORE REACHING BARCELONA
September 8 - The Isla de Panay, Singapore
September 25 - He saw the steamer Isla de Luzon,
leaving the Suez Canal crammed with Spanish troops.
September 27 - He heard from the passengers that a
telegram arrived from Manila reporting the execution of
Francisco Roxas Genato and Osorio
September 28 - A passenger told Rizal the bad news
that he would be arrested by order of Governor General
Blanco and would be sent to prison in Cueta (Spanish
Morocco), opposite Gibraltar.
- He wrote to Blumentritt , unburdening his
disgust and bitterness
September 29 – Rizal wrote to his diary “There are
people on board who do nothing but slander me and
invent fanciful stories about me. I'm going to become a
legendary personage”
September 30 (at 4:00 p.m.) - He was officially notified
by Captain Alemany that he should stay in his cabin
until further orders from Manila.
ARRIVAL IN BARCELONA AS PRISONER
September 30 (6:25pm) – the streamer anchored at
Manila. He wasn’t able visit the famous island fortress
of the Christian Crusaiders.
General Eulogio Despujol – Military Commander of
Barcelona
- His jailor and the same tone who ordered his
banishment to Dapitan in July
 October 4 – Rizal although inconminicado in his
cabinnoticed the celebration at the feast of St.
Francis of Assisi

On October 6 (3:00 a.m.) - Rizal was awakened by

the guards and escorted to the grim and infamous
prison-fortress named Monjuich. - He spent the
whole morning in a cell.

- He was taken out of prison by the guards and

brought to the headquarters of General Despujol.

 In the interview, which lasted a quarter of an hour,

the brusque general told Rizal that he would be
shipped back to Manila on board the transport
ship Colon which was leaving that evening.
 After the Interview, Rizal was taken abroad the
Colon which was "full of soldiers and officers and
their families."

October 6 (8:00 p.m.) The ship left Barcelona, with

Rizal on board Colon

UNSUCCESFUL RESCUE IN SINGAPORE

News from Rizal's predicament reached his friends

in Europe and Singapore.

Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor and Sixto Lopez dispatched

frantic telegrams to an English lawyer Mr. Fort
(Hugh Fort)

When the Colon arrived in Singapore, Atty. Fort

instituted proceedings at the Singapore Court for
the removal of Rizal from The streamer.

Singaporean judge (Loinel Cox) denied the writ, on

the grounds the Colon was carrying Spanish troops
to the Philippines, hence it was a warship of foreign
power.

1896 – Rizal’s Homecoming, the last in his life, was

the saddest return

He desired to meet his enemies and to offer himself

as a sacrificial victim for their sadistic lust and
unholy designs for he knew that his blood would
water the seeds of Filipino freedom

It was one of history’s mockeries of justice