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    Dr. Jose P. Rizal was executed by Spanish authorities on December 30, 1896 for his role in fighting for Philippine independence. His execution date became a national day of mourning and remembrance in 1898. Rizal was already viewed as the national hero in the years before American occupation. News of his death caused sadness in Europe and the Americas. Today marks the 113th anniversary of his martyrdom, with the theme focusing on his heroism being the fountain of valor and national unity for the Philippines. As the country produced a great hero like Rizal, the Filipino people have a potential for greatness within themselves.

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    Dr. Jose P. Rizal was executed by Spanish authorities on December 30, 1896 for his role in fighting for Philippine independence. His execution date became a national day of mourning and remembrance in 1898. Rizal was already viewed as the national hero in the years before American occupation. News of his death caused sadness in Europe and the Americas. Today marks the 113th anniversary of his martyrdom, with the theme focusing on his heroism being the fountain of valor and national unity for the Philippines. As the country produced a great hero like Rizal, the Filipino people have a potential for greatness within themselves.

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    Dr. Jose P. Rizal was executed by Spanish authorities on December 30, 1896 for his role in fighting for Philippine independence. His execution date became a national day of mourning and remembrance in 1898. Rizal was already viewed as the national hero in the years before American occupation. News of his death caused sadness in Europe and the Americas. Today marks the 113th anniversary of his martyrdom, with the theme focusing on his heroism being the fountain of valor and national unity for the Philippines. As the country produced a great hero like Rizal, the Filipino people have a potential for greatness within themselves.

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    Editorial

    113th Anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s


    martyrdom
    December 29, 2009, 3:49pm

    Dr. Jose P. Rizal was executed by Spanish colonial authorities on December


    30, 1896. His martyrdom was first observed on December 30, 1898, by virtue
    of a decree issued by President Emilio F. Aguinaldo on December 20, 1898,
    directing all local, provincial and government officials to celebrate December
    30 as Memorial Day in honor of Dr. Jose P. Rizal and the many other Filipinos
    who suffered martyrdom for the sake of Philipine freedom.

    The El Heraldo de la Revolucion, official newspaper of the Filipino republic,


    published a special issue on December 29, 1898, on Dr. Rizal. In this issue
    was first published the poem composed by poet laureate Don Cecilio Apostol
    entitled “Al Heroe Nacional” (To the National Hero). This poem showed that
    the Filipino people, years before the Americans occupied the Philippines,
    already looked up to Dr. Rizal as their National Hero.

    Dr. Rizal was shot at 7:03 in the morning of December 30, 1896. His mortal
    remains were immediately buried outside the Paco Cemetery on the very
    spot where the martyred Father Jose Burgos was buried 24 years earlier.
    News about Dr. Rizal's execution caused profound sadness in Europe and the
    Americas. Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, a close friend of Dr. Rizal, lamented the
    latter’s death. “Rizal’s execution,” he said, “is an act inimical to the Spanish
    dominion.” “The death of Rizal,” the newspaper La Patria declared, “gave life
    to his country; and the life of his country is the death of its persecutors.”

    Today we mark the 113th Anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s martyrdom.


    “Kabayanihan ni Rizal: Daluyan ng Kagitingan at Pagkakaisa” (Dr. Rizal’s
    Heroism: Fountain of Valor and National Unity) is this year’s theme.

    “A race that has produced a Rizal,” declared University of the Philippines


    President Salvador P. Lopez, “is destined to greatness.” The Filipino race
    produced Dr. Jose P. Rizal. Every Filipino has a potential for greatness like Dr.
    Rizal. Bacause there is a hero in every Filipino awaiting to be unleashed.

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