STORM OVER THE NOLI ME TANGERE

· Governor General Emilio Terrero (1885-1888)-requesting Rizal to come to Malacańang Palace
· Don Jose Taviel de Andrade-a young Spanish lieutenant assigned by Governor General Terrero to
posed as bodyguard of Rizal
· Msgr. Pedro Payo (a Dominican)- sent a copy of Noli to Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria of the
University of Sto. Tomas for examination by a committee of the faculty
· The report of the faculty members of University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was “heretical,
impious, and scandalous in the religious order and anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order”
· Permanent Commission of Censorship-a committee composed of priest and laymen
· Fr. Salvador Font- Augustinian cura of Tondo, head of the committee
-found the novel to contain subversive ideas against the Church and Spain, and recommended “that the
importation, reproduction, and circulation of this pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited.”
· Fr. Jose Rodriguez- Augustinian priest, published a series of eight pamphlets under the general heading Cuestiones de Sumo Interes (Questions of Supreme Interest) to blast the Noli and other anti-Spanish writings
· Vicente Barrantes- Spanish academician of Madrid, who formerly criticized the Noli in an article
published in La Espańa Moderna (a newspaper of Madrid) in January, 1890
· What marred Rizal’s happy days in Calamba with Lt. Andrade were (1) the death of his older sister,
Olimpia, and (2) the groundless tales circulated by his enemies that he was “a German spy, an agent of
Bismarck, a Protestant, a Mason, a witch, a soul beyond salvation, etc.”
· Rev. Vicente Garcia-a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian of the Manila Cathedral and a
Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis
-writing under the penname Justo Desiderio Magalang, wrote a defense of the Noli which was published in Singapore as an appendix to a pamphlet dated July 18, 1888, he blasted the arguments of Fr. Rodriguez
· Rizal, himself defended his novel against Barrantes’ attack, in a letter written in Brussels, Belgium in
February 1880.

FAREWELL TO CALAMBA
· The friars asked Governor General Terrero to deport him, but latter refused because there was no valid charge 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
country’s cause with greater efficacy by writing in foreign countries
· Shortly before Rizal left Calamba in 1888, his friend from Lipa requested him to write a poem in
commemoration of the town’s elevation to a villa (city) by virtue of the Becerra Law of 1888
· Himno Al Trabajo (Hymn to Labor)- a poem written by Rizal dedicated to the industrious folks of Lipa