Rizal at 22. From the first photo taken after his arrival in Spain.
1882, May 3. Age 21.—Secretly left Manila, with passport of a cousin, taking at Singapore a French mail steamer for Marseilles and entering Spain at Port Bou by railroad. Money furnished. by his brother, Paciano Mercado.
June.—Absence noted at Sto. Tomás University, which owned Kalamba estate. Rizal’s father was compelled to prove that he had had no knowledge of his son’s plan in order to hold the land on which he was the University’s tenant.
July–Nov.—A student in Barcelona.
Nov. 3.—Began studies in Madrid.
1885, June 19. Age 24—Received degree of Licentiate in Medicine with honors from Central University of Madrid.
Rizal at 24. The original photograph was taken in Madrid.