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Section: EDM1
Subject: Hist10 in Midterm
Activity 1: Identifying the Arguments
Identify the arguments and the evidence of those who are claiming that Rizal retracted
against those who are saying otherwise.
Rizal Retracted
Claimant Argument 1 Evidences/Proofs
Bernardo Nozaleda Rizal abjured masonry and A. Rizal wrote down his
retracted his statements against retraction, confessed, heard
the catholic church. mass in the morning and
received communion and then
married to Josephine Bracken.
Your Observation
Rizal Retracted
Claimant Argument 2 Evidences/Proofs
Guerro(1998:421) Rizal died as a Catholic. A. Rizal's cadaver was buried
secretly – the insurgents might
unearth his body, revere it as a
nationalist relic or to propagate
a myth about this survival
orresurrection.
History 10 (Life and Works of Jose Rizal) Instructional Manual of Renato C. Valdez
B.Due to the prohibition of the
Penal Code which forbade the
public interment for a
condemned man – there was no
public/open requiem masses
held for the soul of Jose
P.Rizal.
Rizal Retracted
Claimant Argument 3 Evidences/Proofs
Garcia(1960:9-15) No Retraction, No Marriage, In A.Rizal wanted to retract at
other words, Rizal could not Dapitan to marry Josephine. If
marry Josephine unless he Rizal had decided to retract at
retracted first. Dapitan in order to marry
Josephine, give her a name, and
correct the scandal about their
unsanctioned life together out
of respect for the customs of the
people, could he not have done
it a day before his execution?
Would a rationalist, as Rizal
was, miss his last opportunity to
do right by the woman he loved
and the people herespected?
History 10 (Life and Works of Jose Rizal) Instructional Manual of Renato C. Valdez
that Rizal retracted and returned
to the Faith before hisexecution.
Your Observation
Your Observation
Your Observation
History 10 (Life and Works of Jose Rizal) Instructional Manual of Renato C. Valdez
D.Rizal's burial mounds in Paco
cemetery (a cemetery for those
who died of cholera) bore no
cross or any marks to indicate a
grave. Paco cemetery was an
unconsecrated cemetery,
ageneral (public) cemetery.
Catholics were usually buried in
Catholiccemetery.
History 10 (Life and Works of Jose Rizal) Instructional Manual of Renato C. Valdez