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    The document discusses the debate around whether Philippine national hero Jose Rizal retracted his anti-Catholic views before his death. While some historians claim Rizal retracted, there is doubt given the lack of primary sources like a marriage certificate between Rizal and Josephine Bracken. Additionally, multiple versions of an alleged retraction document emerged, confusing the facts. Based on the lack of solid evidence, the author's opinion is that Rizal likely did not retract, as evidenced by the absence of a marriage contract. However, this debate does not diminish Rizal's achievements in awakening Filipino nationalism against Spanish rule.

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    The document discusses the debate around whether Philippine national hero Jose Rizal retracted his anti-Catholic views before his death. While some historians claim Rizal retracted, there is doubt given the lack of primary sources like a marriage certificate between Rizal and Josephine Bracken. Additionally, multiple versions of an alleged retraction document emerged, confusing the facts. Based on the lack of solid evidence, the author's opinion is that Rizal likely did not retract, as evidenced by the absence of a marriage contract. However, this debate does not diminish Rizal's achievements in awakening Filipino nationalism against Spanish rule.

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    Retraction of Rizal - 110046

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    Erica Mae Castillo
    The document discusses the debate around whether Philippine national hero Jose Rizal retracted his anti-Catholic views before his death. While some historians claim Rizal retracted, there is doubt given the lack of primary sources like a marriage certificate between Rizal and Josephine Bracken. Additionally, multiple versions of an alleged retraction document emerged, confusing the facts. Based on the lack of solid evidence, the author's opinion is that Rizal likely did not retract, as evidenced by the absence of a marriage contract. However, this debate does not diminish Rizal's achievements in awakening Filipino nationalism against Spanish rule.

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    Retraction of Rizal

    From what I watched to the video, the debate discusses if Dr. Jose Rizal retract or
    not before he died at Dapitan. This debate really caught my attention because I don’t
    know that Dr. Jose Rizal wrote a retraction before he died. I am truly not knowledgeable
    enough about this certain issue since there were no related information being written
    about this during my history subjects when I am in grade school. As a result, I became
    interested in knowing what was really true if he really retracted or not through this
    debate.
    According to the video, Rizal’s religious views contradict the Roman Catholic views
    so that when the parish church of the Dapitan attempted him to retract from his religious
    errors, they failed. Also, they mentioned that it is said that Rizal and Josephine Bracken
    were married at Catholic church but there were no evidences that can be found such as
    their marriage contract which resulted to the conclusion that Rizal did not retract.
    On the other hand, there were also some historians that stated that Rizal retracted
    his anti-Catholic ideas but there are doubts at its authenticity given that there is no
    certificate of marriage of him and Josephine. Additionally, there is an allegation that the
    document being released was forged given that there were many verbatim documents
    emerged which makes the people to become confused what is really the correct
    document since the documents have some different content and dates.
    It is really important to have a great knowledge about our history as it has a great
    part in our own history. Even Dr. Jose Rizal is our national hero, we should know what
    really happened at that time. From my own opinion, Dr. Jose Rizal did not retract since
    there were no concrete primary sources or evidences that can prove if he really did
    retract at that time. Having no marriage contract is the best proof for this. However, this
    issue about his retraction does not make him less respectable because the thing that he
    woke up the nationalism of many people to fight against the Spaniards was really a big
    help to achieve our independence from the chains of Spain.

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