SECOND HOMECOMING AND THE LIGA FILIPINA

-Rizal’s bold return to Manila in June, 1892 was his second homecoming
-Rizal firmly believed that the fight for Filipino liberties had assumed a new phase: it must be fought in the Philippines not in Spain. “The battlefield is in the Philippines,” he told countrymen in Europe, “There is where we should meet… There we will help one another, there together we will suffer or triumph perhaps.”

ARRIVAL IN MANILA WITH SISTER
· June 26, 1892- Sunday at 12:00 noon, Rizal and his widowed sister Lucia (wife of late Mariano Herbosa)
arrived in Manila
· In the afternoon, at 4:00 o’clock, he went to Malacañang Palace to seek audience with the Spanish
governor general, General Eulogio Despujol, Conde de Caspe
· June 27, 1892- at 6:00pm, Rizal boarded a train in Tutuban Station and visited his friends in Malolos
(Bulacan), San Fernando (Pampanga), Tarlac (Tarlac), and Bacolor (Pampanga)
· Rizal returned by train to Manila on the next day, June 28, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon

FOUNDLING OF THE LIGA FILIPINA
· July 3, 1892- on the evening of Sunday, following his morning interview with Governor General Despujol,
Rizal attended a meeting with patriots at the home of the Chinese-Filipino mestizo, Doroteo Ongjunco, on
Ylaya Street, Tondo, Manila
· Rizal explained the objectives of the Liga Filipina, a civic league of Filipinos, which he desired to establish
and its role in the socio-economic life of the people.
· The officers of the new league were elected, as follows: Ambrosio Salvador (President); Deodato Arellano
(Secretary); Bonifacio Arevalo (Treasurer); and Agustin de la Rosa (Fiscal)
· Unus Instar Omnium (One Like All)- the motto of the Liga Filipina
The governing body of the league was the Supreme Council which had jurisdiction over the whole country. It was composed of a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and a fiscal. There was a Provincial Council in every province and a Popular Council in every town
· The duties of the Liga members are as follows (1) obey the orders of the Supreme Council (2) to help in
recruiting new members (3) to keep in strictest secrecy the decisions of the Liga authorities (4) to have symbolic name which he cannot change until he becomes president of his council (5) to report to the fiscal anything that he may hear which affect the Liga (6) to behave well as befits a good Filipino (7) to help fellow members in all ways

RIZAL ARRESTED AND JAILED IN FORT SANTIAGO
· July 6, 1892- Wednesday, Rizal went to Malacañang Palace to resume his series of interviews with
governor general
· Pobres Frailles (Poor Friars)- incriminatory leaflets which allegedly found in Lucia’s pillow cases; it is
under the authorship of Fr. Jacinto and printed by the Imprenta de los Amigos del Pais, Manila
· Rizal was placed under arrest and escorted to Fort Santiago by Ramon Despujol, nephew and aide of
Governor General Despujol
· July 7, 1892- the Gaceta de Manila published the story of Rizal’s arrest which produced indignant
commotion among the Filipino people, particlarly the members of the newly organized Liga Filipina
· The same issue of the Gaceta (july 7, 1892) contained Governor General Despujol’s decree deporting
Rizal to “one of the islands in the South”
· July 14, 1892, shortly after midnight (that is 12:30 am of July 15, 1892) – Rizal was brought under heavy guard to the steamer Cebu which was sailing for Dapitan. This steamer under Captain Delgras departed at 1:00 AM, July 15, sailing south, passing Mindoro and Panay and reaching Dapitan on Sunday, the 17 th of July at 7:00 in the evening
· Captain Ricardo Carnicero- Spanish commandant of Dapitan whom Captain Delgras handed Rizal
· July 17, 1892- July 31, 2896- Rizal began his exile in lonely Dapitan, a period of four years