Elbo, Angelica Mae GED 105 Room 406

Bs. Architecture 2 Mr. Fidel Carinan 1:00 – 2:00

Analysis on Rizal’s Retraction

Some of Jose Rizal's most interesting things was his supposed retraction, which was all about his
conversion to the Catholic Church and all other things connected to it such as his marriage to
Josephine Bracken. The Roman Catholic defenders believed that this problem was valid, but
believed to be misleading by anti-retractonists. They argue the retraction paper is a forgery, but
experts in handwriting have long believed it's authentic. The opus on Rizal, entitled "Biografia
de Rizal" by Rafael Palma is so anti-Catholic that the Church strongly protested its publishing
using government funds. Rizal's involvement with Masonry was recorded in an essay published
by Romberto Poulo to have induced dramatic change to his religious ideas. It was when Rizal set
foot on European soil that he was exposed to a lot of discrepancies in what happened to his
country, discrimination, violence, racism, inequality and certain other issues forced his
countrymen to suffer, and this was the real scene of the nations of Europe. Compared to the
Philippines, Europe became much more distinct in terms of way of life, attitudes towards Roman
Catholicism and, most notably, independence enjoyed by all the people.

He had obtained the same copy from Fr. In the evening Balaguer directly precedes the execution
of Rizal. Jose Rizal adding the names of the witnesses in the Manila newspapers taken from the
retraction documents. Fr. Balaguer's "exact" reproduction also matches the paragraphing in
Manila newspapers of the texts of Rizal's retraction. To get married to Josephine, Rizal wrote a
form of retraction with the aid of a priest to be accepted by the Bishop of Cebu. Fr disclosed the
accident. Antonio Obach wrote in 1912 to his friend Prof. Austin Craig, who wrote down what
the priest had told him; "The text (the retraction), included with the letter of the priest, was ready
for the mail when Rizal rushed me to retrieve it." Rizal remembered that he had written and
offered to a priest what the friars had tried to get from him by some way.

That Rizal died a Catholic or an apostate undoubtedly contributes or detracts nothing from his
Filipino grandeur. This is because Rizal was valued for what he did and what he was. Indeed
Rizal is Rizal, Catholic or Mason: the hero who courted death "to show all those who challenge
our patriotism that we know how to fight for our country and our ideals"