He had a delightful trip from Europe to Manila. It was also a happy homecoming in Calamba, Laguna . However, the family of Rizal knew that they were plotting to be killed because of his writing in “Noli Me Tangere” . He was able to live in peace with the protection of his family in Calamba and was able to practice his medical profession where he first treated the eyes of his mother However, in six months of sojourn in Calamba he failed to see his sweetheart Leonor Rivera.
The return of Rizal was no longer peaceful when the controversial novel reached to the hands of the Spanish authorities and the Dominican friars. Those who were able to read just like the liberal-minded Governor General Emilio Terrero found out that it was not advocating subversive ideas. However, the Archbishop of Manila, the rector and professors of University of Santo Tomas reported that the novel was heretical, impious and scandalous in the religious order. I must have known that Rizal was not like by the Dominican Friars even when he studied medicine in the same university. I was further reported that it was anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order. There were other critics of Rizal such as Augustinian, F. Jose Rodriguez, including the Senate of Spanish Cortes who