Wrath of the gods
The little gods in Calamba who came from Europe were mad at the little man from Calamba who was in Europe. It was 1890. It was a terrible time for the Calambeños. More terrible news reached Rizal in Madrid as he was waging a futile fight for justice. From his brother-in-law Silvestre Ubaldo, he received a copy of the ejectment order by the Dominicans against Francisco Rizal his father and other Calamba tenants. From his sister Saturnina, he learned of the deportation of Paciano Rizal, Antonino Lopez, Silvestre Ubaldo, Mateo Elejorde, and Dandoy to Mindoro; these unfortunate deportees were arrested in Calamba and were shipped out of Manila on 6 September 1890. He further learned from Saturnina's letter that their parents had been forcibly ejected from their home and were then living in the house of Narcisa, Antonino's wife. Gregorio F Zaide, Jose Rizal: Life, Works And Writings, 2003: 154. Photo by Thomas J Wright, cross at St Patrick's Cathedral, Ireland

They were trying to destroy the spirit of Rizal, who had written against them in the subversive book Noli Me Tangere, which was history written with the friars painted in bad spirit. Whom the gods wish to destroy, first they make mad - first they make themselves mad.