LESSON 10 OCTOBER

Rizal s
Last Work
Presented by: Mendoza, Mark angelou
& Barbolino. Jennie May

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES OCTOBERr

Identify the conflicting

A views/ accounts about the
Rizal’s Retraction

Learning B
Analyze Each View And
Source

Objectives Use Primary Sources In

C Presenting And Writing
About Local Issue

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Introduction
Rizal was convinced that he had done his share of
patriotism. He was an example of a man of
courage and conviction willing to sacrifice for his
people’s cause. When Rizal knew of his fate, he
did not whine but made himself useful and took every
moment to be still of service to his land.

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Rizal’s Last Hour

and the Retraction
controversy

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When did Rizal know

of his sentence and
death?
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December 26, 1896 - the military court tried Jose Rizal;

found guilty of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy.
Reason: according to Spanish authorities, Rizal’s
writings “fatally and necessarily” incited the rebellion

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Where did Rizal

spend his last hours?

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Around 7 a.m.of December 26, Rizal was transferred

to his death cell in Fort Santiago.

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Where did Rizal

spend his last hours?

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Rizal’s visitors:
his Counsel, Spanish officials, Priests, Former professors
and Archbishop of Manila, Rev. Bernardino Nozaleda,
who claimed that Rizal recanted his statements against the
Church and returned to the Catholic faith.

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What else did Rizal

do during the last
hours?
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Read the Bible

Read Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ
Wrote the poem we know now as “Mi Ultimo Adiós”
Wrote letters to Paciano Rizal, his friend Ferdinand
Blumentritt

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When was Rizal

executed?

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On December 30, 1896, around 7 a.m. at Luneta,

Manila, Rizal was executed by firing squad

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What was the

content of his letter to
his brother Paciano?
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He asked his brother to ask their father for

forgiveness for all the pain he had caused him

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What was the

content of his letter to
his friend
Blumentritt?
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“When you receive this letter, I shall be dead by then....

Tomorrow at seven, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the
crime of rebellion.... I am going to die with a tranquil
conscience.”

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WHAT IS RETRACTION? 23 JANUARY

What is a retraction?
It is an act of a person to renounce his own
statements thereby reversing what has
been established as fact with the said
statement.

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THE RETRACTION CONTROVERSY OCTOBER

In the case of Rizal, the Archbishop of Manila at the time of his death said
“During that day, although Rizal did not reject [the Jesuits], he persisted
in his errors contrary to the Catholic faith.… However, at the last hour,
Rizal abjured, in writing, his religious errors.” In other words, Rizal, a
Mason, was said to have recanted his statements against the Church and
to have returned to the Catholic faith.”
In this case, if it was true that Rizal retracted, then it would have been the
same as saying that Rizal did not really believe in all that he has said in any
way including his writings about the Catholic Church in the Philippines, and
that he would have been convinced that his statements against the
church were wrong.
However, the truthfulness of the retraction was not resolved.

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Did He? Or Did He

Not?

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The Versions of
Rizal’s Retraction
There are at least four versions of the alleged retraction
letter of Jose Rizal which have surfaced.

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The Versions of
Rizal’s Retraction
There are at least four versions of the alleged retraction
letter of Jose Rizal which have surfaced.

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1 The first text was published in La Voz Española

and Diaro de Manila on the very day of Rizal’s
execution, December 30, 1896.

The Versions 2 The second text appeared in Barcelona, Spain,

on February 14, 1897, in the fortnightly
magazine La Juventud

of Rizal’s 3 The “original text was discovered in the

Retraction archdiocesan archives on May 18, 1935

4
The fourth text appeared in El Imparcial on the
day after Rizal’s execution; it is the short
formula of the retraction.

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