Notes in Rizal

Topic: Frailocracy What is Frailocracy? It is a government by friars, who on every issue, and from the capital to the most remote province, where the final arbiters. Chapter II Arrest of Teodora Alonso power of the Spansh friars Jose Burgos and the claims of the Filipino clergy the first Liberal Governor-General the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 execution of Burgos. Cont. of Young Joses education Francisco Mercados next attempt to give the young Rizal some formal education is to send him to the school he himself had started in, the Latin school at Binan, where Rizal could stay with his relatives. A much larger town in Calamba about one-and-a-half hour by pony-trap. The arrangement however didnt last long. Rizal went to Binan some time in the second half of 1870, when he was nine. The Schoolmaster turned out to be brutal, arid man whose extremely conservative teaching of grammar. Rizal though still small for his age, being from another town, found he had to fight most of the way. By the fact that in these fights he acquitted himself well and was frequently the winner Victories sometimes followed by half-a-dozen lashes from the schoolmaster. As for the relatives of Rizal in Binan, What he found was more like a barracks, the people there are sloppy, unimaginative, and disinterested. No one troubled to prepare meals. The young Rizal had to survive on a diet of rice and the cheapest fish, which was almost all they bought. The lady of the house spent most of her time lying on the floor reading the Bible in Tagalog, while her unmarried daughter was much given to confessions and penances. When he returned to Calamba for Christmas in 1870, after only a few months in BInan, it was decided that he need not return for the next term, but should study at home the best as he could till he was old enough to study for college in Manila. At his own request another local tutor was tried, but as Rizal said Of course I learned nothing more than a multiplication table. Like every child prodigy, he was something of a prob lem for educators.

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Notes in Rizal
Arrest of Teodora Alonso Within a few months of being home he witnessed an incident which reveal how insubstantial was his family seemingly assured position. It was 1871, in June of which year Jose was ten. His mothers cousin Jose Alberto, a resident of Binan, had returned from Europe to find that a few days earlier his wife had deserted him, leaving their children abandoned. He managed to discover where his wife had gone and decided to have a divorce. This came to the attention of Teodora who, from religious and moral motive, misguidedly intervened in attempt to heal the breach between husband and wife. The wife of Jose Alberto conceived for Teodora a venomous hatred. The wife formally accused Jose Alberto of trying to poison her and naming Teodora Alonso as an accomplice.
Without any kind of hearing the alcalde ordered the arrest and imprisonment of Teodora at Santa Cruz the provincial capital. The arrest was carried out by the Alfrez (is a junior officer rank in the militaries of Spain) whom the Rizals had considered a personal friend who obliged Teodora Alonso to walk the entire way to the prison, a distance of some twenty miles. Power of the Spanish Friars The Friars Augustinian, Dominican, and Franciscan had from the time of the evangelization of the Philippines, which began in

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