A SummAry of the retrAction of JoSe rizAl

Group 6

Members:
Francis Gabriel Torres
Sean Richardson Pancho
Rasha Mae Balbin
Blessie Domigo

Brief Background of Jose Rizal

- Jose Rizal is identified as a hero of the revolution for his writings

- Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo is one of his famous work
- His essays vilify not the Catholic religion, but the friars, the main agents of injustice in the Philippine
society

Rizal’s Retraction

- "The Retraction," declares Rizal's belief in the Catholic faith, and retracts everything he wrote against
the Church
- Rizal's retraction letter was discovered by Father Manuel Garcia, CM (1935)
- Dated December 29, 1896 and signed by Rizal himself

The Balaguer Testimony

•Father Vicente Balaguer

- Father Vicente Balaguer was born on January 1851 in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain
- He entered the Society of Jesus on July 30, 1890 and came to the Philippines in 1894.
- He was transferred to Dapitan in 1896, where he met Rizal during his exile in the said place
- He was one of the jesuit priests who visited Rizal during his last hour in Fort Santiago
- Father Vicente Balaguer stated that Rizal accepted a shorter retraction document prepared by the
superior of the jesuit society in the Philippines, Father Pio Pi

- According to Balaguer's testimony, Rizal woke up several times, confessed four times, attended a mass, received a
communion, and prayed the rosary
- Balaguer stated that Rizal had expressed remorse for his writings that criticized the Catholic Church and the
Spanish colonial authorities

The Testimony of Cuerpo de Vigilancia

- Through the research of the current history Professor Rene R. Escalante, another eyewitness account
surfaced in 2016
•CUERPO DE VIGILANCIA,
- CUERPO-corpse/katawan
VIGILANCIA - surveillance/pagmamatyag
- to gather information on the activities of certain groups suspected of plotting an uprising against the
colonial establishment
- isang pwersa ng seguridad sa maynila noon pang panahon ng kolonyalismo ng espanya
 - itinatag taong 1895 para magkaroon ng pangunahing misyon na siguraduhin ang kaligtasan, kaayusan
at ma protektahan ang buong kamaynilaan
- binuo ng mga pilipinong sundalo na naglingkod sa ilalim ng espanyol
- nagresulta ito sa pagkakamit ng kalayaan ng Pilipinas mula sa Espanya noong 1898

The Last Hours of Jose Rizal

- DEC.29,1896 , 6:00 am in the morning, Capt. Rafael Dominquez read Rizal's death sentence
- His first visitors were Father Miguel Sdaerra Mata and Father Luis Viza
- At 7:15 a.m., Rizal received the statuette 'Sacred Heart of Jesus' from Viza.
- Dec. 30. 6:30 am, A trumpet sounded at Fort Santiago, a signal to begin the death March to Bagumbayan
- Rizal, elegantly dressed in black and began his death march together with Luis Taviel de Andrade, Frs.
Vilaclara and March.
- Dr. Felipe Ruiz Castillo – a spanish military doctor who approached Rizal to check his pulse
- Eight Filipino soldiers were assigned to shoot Rizal
- Rizal request that he'd be shot in the heart and not in the head
- Rizal shouted "consomotames" which means "it is finished"
- Rizal was burried in Paco without a coffin

Rizal’s Connection to Katipunan

- An organization Rizal founded, with Andres Bonifacio as one of its members

- A few days after Rizal's exile on 7 July 1892, former members decided to band together to establish the
Katipunan
- Rizal was not been officially part of Katipunan
- Out of 28 members of the Katipunan (known as the Kataas-taasang Sanggunian ng Katipunan) from 1892
to 1896, 13 were former members of La Liga Filipina
- In 1896, the Katipuneros decided to inform Rizal of their plans to launch the revolution, and sent Pio
Valenzuela to visit Rizal in Dapitan
- Rizal suggested that Antonio Luna be recruited to direct the military movement of the revolution