1882-1887

Overt and covert mission: to complete Rizal’s

studies and

to study life and culture of European nations.

May 3-8, 1882, boarded in

Salvadora to Singapore

May 9, registered at Hotel de la Paz

May, 11 –boarded in

Djemmah bound for Europe

May 17 –reached Point

Galle a seacoast town in Sri Lanka

May 18, Colombo, Sri

Lanka

Cape of Guardafui, Africa

AdenSuez Canal,

traversed for 5 days

June, 11 –reached Naples

June 12, Djemmah docked

at Marseillles

Visited Chateau d’If, a setting in

the Count of Monte Cristo

Barcelona, Spain

Mezquita of Cordoba El Escorial Sagrada Familia Ibiza

June 16, 1882: Rizal reached Barcelona.

“Amor Patrio” (Love of Country):

first article written on Spain under pen-name

Laong-Laan,

the essay appeared in Diariong Tagalog on

August 20, 1882, in two texts – Spanish and Tagalog(translation by M.H. Del Pilar).

While in Barcelona, Rizal received sad news about the cholera in the Philippines

Following the advice of Paciano, Rizal moved to Madrid (fall of 1882) to finish his medical course.

November 3,: Rizal enrolled in the Universidad Central de Madrid – Medicine & Philosophy & Letters.

He also studied painting and sculpture

He took lessons in French, German and English at the Academy of San Carlos

Rizal joined the Circulo Hispano-Filipino.

Upon the request of the members of this society, Rizal wrote a poem entitled “Mi Piden Versos” (They Ask Me for Verses), which he personally declaimed during the New Year’s Eve reception (December 31, 1882)

Budget priorities: food, clothing, lodging and books

Only extravagance: a few pesetas for lottery tickets in every draw of the Madrid Lottery.

Leisure: reading and writing at his boarding house; attending reunions at the house of the Paterno brothers; practicing fencing and shooting; sipping coffee at Antigua Cafe de Levante.

In Calamba, harvests of rice and sugarcane failed; there was increase in rentals of the lands; turkeys raised by Rizal’s father were killed by dreadful pest...

June 24, 1884: Without breakfast, he attended class at the University, participated in Greek language contest and won a gold medal.

In the evening of the same day, he was only able to eat dinner because he was a guest speaker in banquentheld in honor of Juan Luna, Felix ResurreccionHidalgo at Restaurant Ingles in Madrid.

“...genius knows no country, genius sprouts everywhere, genius is like light, air, the patrimony of everybody,

cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God...”

F.R. Hidalgo, 2nd Prize, National Exposition of Fine Arts in Madrid (1884)

Juan Luna, 1st Prize, National Exposition of Fine Arts in Madrid, 1884

On Saturday evenings, Rizal would visit the home of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey (former city mayor of Manila) who now lived in Madrid with his son (Rafael) and daughter (Consuelo).

Rizal was shy and lonely;

Consuelo was attractive and vivacious.

Poem: A La Señorita C.O. y R. (August 22, 1883)

He was still in love with Leonor Rivera

His friend and co-worker in the Propaganda Movement, Eduardo de Lete, who was also madly in love with Consuelo.

June 17 to August 20, 1883: First summer vacation in Madrid

Hotel de Paris, 37 Rue de Maubange

124 Rue de Rennes

Champs Elysses, the Opera House, the Place de la Concorde, the Arch of Triumph, the Bois de Boulogne (magnificent park), the Madeleine church, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Column of Vendome, the Invalides (containing the tomb of Napoleon the Great), and the fabulous Versailles.

“Paris is the costliest capital in Europe...”

In Spain, Rizal came in close contact with Masons (Miguel Morayta, Francisco Pi y Margal, Manuel Becerra, et al.)

March 1883, Rizal joined the Masonic Lodge Acacia in Madrid.

November 15, 1890, Rizal transferred to Lodge Solidaridad, where he became a Master Mason.

February 15, 1892, he was awarded the diploma as Master Mason by Le Grand Orient de France in Paris.

Finished the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad Central de Madrid on June 21, 1884.

The next academic year, (1884-1885)did not finished the degree of Doctor of Medicine; since he did not present the thesis nor paid the corresponding fees, he was not awarded his Doctor’s diploma.

Rizal also finished his studies in Philosophy and

Letters at the same university on June 19, 1885 (his

24th birthday), with the rating of “Excellent” (Sobresaliente).