Today is the 153rd birth anniversary of Jose Rizal. The Presidential Museum and Library recounts the numerous occasions Rizal had visited the Malacañan Palace— “Rizal, the most celebrated and notorious proponent of liberal reform of his generation, was ordered to visit [Lieutenant General Emilio] Terrero at Malacañan in late August or early September 1887. Ordered to give an explanation for his novel Noli Me Tangere—a scathing portrayal of the Spanish administration and the religious orders branded immediately as subversive and subsequently banned—Terrero confronted Rizal in his office at the Palace and actually asked for a copy of the book that he may know what all the fuss was about.”
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:05:00 +0000
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