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1st SEMESTER, A.Y. 2023 – 2024

GEMS01 LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL
ACTIVITY#3

Name of Student: Salvador, John Lloyd G. Date of Examination: 27/11/2023

Course, Year, and Section: BSIT 2G Name of Professor: Prof. Sinlao

Unit V – Exile, Trial, and Execution (1896)

A. With the use of graphic organizer, discuss the timeline of Rizal’s execution.

OCTOBER 6 1896 - Arrest

- 3:00 AM: On his 4th day of being held in his cabin at the MV Isla de Panay docked at Barcelona,
Spain on his way to Cuba, Rizal was awakened to be brought to Montjuich Prison in Barcelona, Spain.

- 2:00 PM: Interview with General Eulogio Despujol

- 8:00 PM - Aboard the Colon, Rizal left Barcelona for Manila.

NOVEMBER 3, 1896 - Incarceration

- Rizal was brought to Fort Santiago, where other patriots, including his brother Paciano, were being
tortured to implicate him. Paciano refused to sign anything despite being his body broken and his left
hand crushed.

NOVEMBER 20, 1896 - Investigation

Preliminary investigation began with Rizal appearing before Judge Advocate Colonel Francisco Olive.
The investigation lasted five days.

NOVEMBER 26, 1896

The records of the case were handed over to Governor General Ramon Blanco who then appointed
Captain Rafael Dominguez as special Judge Advocate.

DECEMBER 8, 1896
From a list submitted to him by the authorities, he chose the brother of his friend, Lt. Luis Taviel de
Andrade to become his trial lawyer. He was only made to choose among army officers and not a
civilian lawyer.

DECEMBER 11, 1896

In his prison cell, Rizal was read the charges against him: principal organizer and the living soul of the
Filipino insurrection, the founder of societies, periodicals and books dedicated to fomenting and
propagating the ideas of rebellion.

DECEMBER 13, 1896

Ramon Blanco was replaced by Camilo de Polavieja, a more ruthless character, as Governor General
of the Philippines. Dominguez submitted the papers of the Rizal case to Malacaan Palace.

DECEMBER 15, 1896

Rizal issued his manifesto to certain Filipinos calling to end the absurd rebellion and to fight for
liberties with education as a prerequisite. The authorities suppressed the manifesto.

DECEMBER 25, 1896

Rizals saddest Christmas, away from family and friends.
DECEMBER 26, 1896 - Trial
Trial of Rizal began at the Cuartel de Espaa. On the same day, the court-martial secretly and
unanimously voted for a guilty verdict with the penalty of death before a firing squad. Polavieja signs
the death verdict.

DECEMBER 29, 1896 - Before the day of Execution

- 6:00 AM: Rizal was read his verdict by Captain Rafael Dominguez: To be shot the next day at 7:00
AM at the Luneta de Bagumbayan (Rizal Park)

- 7:00 AM: Rizal was transferred to the chapel cell adorned by religious images to convince him to go
back to the Catholic fold. His first visitors were Jesuit priests Fathers Miguel Saderra Mata and Luis
Viza.

- 7:15 AM: After Fr. Saderra left, Rizal asked Fr. Viza for the Sacred Heart statuette which he carved
when he was an Ateneo student. From his pocket the statuette appears

- 8:00 AM: Fr. Viza was relieved by Fr. Antonio Rosell who joined Rizal for breakfast. Lt. Luis Taviel de
Andrade joins them.

- 9:00 AM: Fr. Federico Faura, who once said that Rizal would lose his head for writing the Noli Me
Tangere, arrived. Rizal told him, Father you are indeed a prophet.

- 10:00 AM: Fathers Jos Vilaclara and Vicente Balaguer visisted Rizal, followed by a Spanish journalist,
Santiago Mataix of El Heraldo de Madrid, for an interview

- 12:00-3:30 PM: Rizals time alone in his cell. He had lunch, wrote letters and probably wrote his last
poem of 14 stanzas which he wrote in his flowing handwriting in a very small piece of paper. He hid it
inside his alcohol stove. The untitled poem was later known as Mi Ultimo Adios(My Last Farewell). In
its second stanza, he already praised the revolutionaries in the battlefield for giving their lives without
doubt, without gloom.

- 3:30 PM: Fr. Balaguer visits again and, according to him, talks to Rizal about retracting his anti-
Catholic writings and his being a mason.

- 6:00 PM: Rizal was visited by the Dean of the Manila Cathedral, Don Silvino Lopez Tuon. Fathers
Balaguer and March left Father Vilaclara to be with the two.

- 8:00 PM: Rizals last supper where he informed Captain Dominguez that he already forgave those
who condemned him.

- 9:30 PM: Rizal was visited by the fiscal of the Royal Audiencia of Manila, Don Gaspar Cestao with
whom Rizal offered the best chair of the cell. According to accounts, the fiscal left with a good
impression of Rizal’s intelligence and noble character.

DECEMBER 30, 1896 - Execution

- 3:00 AM: According to Father Balaguers account, Rizal asked to have confession, hear mass and be
given Holy Communion. Allegedly he also signed the document retracting his anti-Catholic writings
and his membership in masonry.

- 5:30 AM: Rizal took his last meal. According to stories told to Narcisa by Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade,
Rizal threw some eggs in the corner of a cell for the poor rats, Let them have their fiesta too. Rizal also
wrote to his family and to his brother.

- 6:00 AM: Rizal wrote his father, Francisco Mercado My beloved Father, Pardon me for the pain with
which I repay you for sorrows and sacrifices for my education. I did not want nor did I prefer it.
Goodbye, Father, goodbye Jose Rizal. To his mother, he had only these words, To my very dear
Mother, Sra. Da Teodora Alonso 6 oclock in the morning, December 30, 1896. Jose Rizal.
- 6:30 AM: Death march from Fort Santiago to Bagumbayan begins. 4 soldiers with bayoneted rifles
lead the procession followed by Rizal, Taviel de Andrade, Fathers Vilaclara and March and other
soldiers. They passed by the Intramuros plaza, then turned right to the Postigo gate then left at
Malecon, the bayside road now known as Bonifacio Drive.

- 7:00 AM: Rizal, after arriving on the execution site at the Luneta de Bagumbayan, was checked with
his pulse by Dr. Felipe Ruiz Castillo. It was perfectly normal. Rizal once wrote, I wish to show those
who deny us patriotism that we know how to die for our duty and our convictions.

- 7:03 AM: With the captain shouting Fuego! Shouts rang out from the guns of eight indio soldiers.
Rizal, being a convicted criminal was not facing the firing squad. As he was hit, he resists and turns
himself to face his executors. He falls down, and dies facing the sky.

B. B. Discuss the duties of the members of the La Liga Filipina.

- B. DUTIES OF MEMBERS

Duties of the Members:

• They shall pay monthly dues of ten centimos.
• They shall obey blindly and promptly every order emanating from a Council or a Chief.
• They shall inform the Fiscal of their Council of whatever they note or hear that has reference to the
Liga Filipina.
• They shall preserve the most absolute secrecy in regard to the decisions of the Council.
• In all walks of life, preference shall be given to the members. Nothing shall be bought except in the
shop of a member, or whenever anything is sold to a member, he shall have a rebate. Circumstances
being equal, the member shall always be favored. Every infraction of this article shall be severely
punished.
• The member who does not help another member in the case of need or danger, although able to do
so, shall be punished, and at least the same penalty suffered by the other shall be imposed on him.
• Each member, on affiliation, shall adopt a new name of his own choice, and shall not be able to
change the same unless he become a Provincial Chief.
• He shall bring to each Council a service [trabajo; evidently a service done for the organization], an
observation, a study, or a new candidate.
• He shall not submit to any humiliation or treat anyone with contempt.

C. C. With the use of graphic organizer, enumerate the projects that Rizal made in Dapitan.
- Rizal's Life In Dapitan
( 1892 - 1896 )
He established his own house, surrounded with plants, and fruitbearing trees at the nearby shore. He
also made a house for his young student boys. Devoted all his precious time in treating his patients,
Research study, and in the development of his knowledge in art, literature, education, language, and
science. He also dedicated his time to farming, business activities, civic projects, as well as exchanging
letters with Blumentrit, Joest, Rost, Meyer, Kheiland with other scientist in Europe.
Rizal As a Doctor in Dapitan
Rizal treated his patients no matter how poor he was. He did not ask payment from poor patients, and
instead he had given them free medicine.
His mother Dona Teodora and his sister Maria arrived in Dapitan in August 1893. He treated his
mother for the third time. Dona Teodora and Maria reside with Rizal in Dapitan for one and a half
year.

Rizal As an Engineer In Dapitan

He was able to establish waterworks system in Dapitan, so that its residence could have clean water
to drink. Mr H.F. Cameron, an American Engineer, praised Rizal for the wonderful invention.

Rizal As a Teacher In Dapitan

He established his own school he only accepted boy studentsbeing chosen from well-known families.
He didn’t ask for payment but instead ask his students to help them in his projects, farm and garden.
He taught them reading, writing and languages.