In 1880, Jose Rizal wrote a play in verse, “Junto al Pasig,” which no one thought subversive because he was a 19-year-old, diligent student of the Ateneo Municipal in Intramuros. READ:
In 1880, Jose Rizal wrote a play in verse, “Junto al Pasig,” which no one thought subversive because he was a 19-year-old, diligent student of the Ateneo Municipal in Intramuros. The play seemed innocent enough, if not pious. A group of students were waiting by the banks of the Pasig River to sing hymns of praise to Our Lady of Antipolo as her fluvial procession floated by.
Satan gushingly tells Leonido that before the Spaniards came to these shores, when all the natives adored him, these islands were beautiful; there was no hunger nor pain; fields brimmed with harvest for the earth were fertile and unsullied. On the grassy plains roamed speckled goats, deer, and myriad cattle. Colonies of diligent bees made honey in their hives for the delight and sustenance of humans. Even crows behaved, predicting the weather and doing no harm.
During his threatening monologue, Satan tells Leonido that the Philippines groans beneath the oppression of an alien race, that it is slowly dying in the impious hands of Spain. Only he, Satan, can liberate this land from Spain; the Devil also promises to give Leonido anything he desires in exchange for loyalty. True to form, the Jesuit-educated Leonido scoffs at the devil, telling him that the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Christian followers have already defeated him.
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