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Zaide, G. (2008).Jose Rizal Life, Works, and Writing of a Genius, Writer,Scientist, and National Hero.
Quezon City: ALL-NATIONS Publishing Co.,Inc.
http://rizalisthename.blogspot.com/2014/07/group-8-rizals-exile-in-dapitan-1982.html
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1896
The decision to exile José Rizal to Dapitan was taken so he could contemplate his sins against Spain and,
“publicly retract his errors concerning religion, and make statements that were clearly pro-Spanish and
against revolution”. He arrived in 1892 and left shortly before his execution in 1896. During his four-year
exile Rizal was famously productive: he practised medicine and pursued scientific studies, continued his
artistic and literary works, widened his knowledge of languages and established a school for boys. It was
also in Dapitan that he first set eyes on Josephine Bracken, the smouldering Irish beauty whom he
married in a private ceremony in his cell two hours before his execution. Tragically the son she bore Rizal
was stillborn and is buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Dapitan. Bracken married again in Hong
Kong, but died of tuberculosis at the age of 26.