Retraction

Of
Rizal
 Introduction

DID RIZAL REALLY RETRACTED?

"I retract with all my heart”

-Dr. Jose Rizal

Dr. Jose Rizal controversy in the life

of the PHILLIPINE NATIONAL HERO .
Over his supposed retraction from masonry
an the RECONVERSION TO THE
CATHOLICISM.
 Definition
WHAT IS RETRACTION?
- A public statement that
withdraws , cancels ,reputes or reverses
the original statement.
WHAT WAS THE RETRACTION all
ABOUT?
THE LETTER DATED DECEMBER 29
1896 , WAS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN DESIGNED BY THE NATIONAL
HERO HIMSELF . RIZAL
RETRACTED
BECAUSE THE CHURCH WOULD
NOT ALLOW HIS MARRIAGE TO
JOSEPHINE
BRACKEN UNLESS HE RETRACTED
HIS MASOIC AFFLIATION.
 Rizal letter of retraction

“ I declare myself a catholic in this religion in which I was born and

educated I wish to live and die.”

I retract with all my heart, what ever in my words, writings ,

publications and conduct has been contrary to my character as so of the
Catholic Church. I believe and I confess whatever he teaches and I submit to
whatever she demand .I abominate Masonry, as the enemy which is of the
Church, and as a society prohibited by the church .The diocesan Prelate may, as
the superior Ecclesiastical Authority , make public this spontaneous
manifestation of mine in order to repair the scandal which may acts may have
caused and so that god and people may pardon me.

MANILA 29 OF DECEMBER OF 1896 JOSE RIZAL – THE RETRACTION LETTER

 MAIN ISSUES
CONSERING THE RETRACTION

FIRST SECON THIRD

RIZAL
D
RIZAL RIZAL
RETRACTED WROTE AND MARRIED
HIS SIGNED THE TO
MASONIC RETRACTIO JOSEPHINE
AFFILIATION N
DID RIZAL
RETRACT? HIS DID RIZAL WROTE
AND THE SIGNED THE DID RIZAL AND
MASONIC
RETRACTION? JOSEPHINE GOT
AFFILIATION?
MARRIED?
“THAT STYLE IS AS
*RIZAL STATED SIMPLE AS MINE. FATHER BALAGUER
IN HIS “DON’T BOTHER, TESTIFIED HE MARRIED
FATHER TO READ IT
RETRACTION ALL. DICTATE WHAT I
RIZAL AND JOSEPHINE ON
DECEMBER 30 AT 6
OUGHT TO PROFESS O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
“I ABOMINATE OR EXPRESS , AND AFTER HIS MARRIAGE ,
MASONRY AS THE SHALL I WRITE , RIZAL DICTATED A
ENEMY OF THE MAKING ANY CASE CATHOLIC DEVOTION
CHURCH AND SOME REMARKS” BOOK
REPROBATED BY THE (RIZAL 1896) “ DE LA IMITACION DE
SAME CHURCH”
CRISTO”
TO JOSEPHINE
 JOSEPHINE
  BRACKEN Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken
was the common-law wife of Philippine nationalist José Rizal
 during his exile in Dapitan in the province of 
Zamboanga del Norte in the southern Philippines.[In the early
morning hours of December 30, 1896, the day of his execution
by firing squad, the couple were married in Fort Santiago, the
place of his incarceration, following his reconciliation with
the Catholic Church. The marriage is disputed by some
sectors because no records were found regarding the union,
discounting the unusual events of that day, even if it was
attested by Bracken herself and the officiating priest.
THE MARRIAGE OF RIZAL AND
JOSEPHINE BRACKEN

FATHER BALAGUER ,
THE ACT OF RETRACTION
IS ESTABLISHED BECAUSE THE PRIEST WHO
WAS “NO RETRACTION , HAD MARRIED THEM
NO MARRIAGE” TESTIFIED UNDER
OATH THAT:

AT 6 O’CLOCK IN WITH THE

THE MORNING OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE
WARDEN OF THE
DECEMBER , 30
PORT , I PROCEEDED
JOSEPHINE BRACKEN TO THE MARRIAGE OF
AND ONE OF RIZALS RIZAL AND JOSEPHINE.
SISTER ARRIVED
CRYING BITTERLY.
 TIMELINE
1891
RIZAL ARRIVED IN
1 HONGKONG
TO PRACTICE MEDICAL
PROFESSION
1895
2 RIZAL BECAME
ACQUAINTED WITH
JOSEPHINE BRACKEN
1892
3 FOUND THE LA LIGA
FILIPINA
DECEMBER 26,1986
RIZAL WAS ACCUSED AND TRIED
4 BEFORE THE
MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE
ALLEGED CRIMES OF REBELLION ,
SEDITION ANF LEGAL ASSCOCIATION
DECEMBER 28 1986
GOVERNOR GENERAL AFFIRMED
THE
5 DEATH SENTENCE AND SET THE
EXECUTION OF RIZAL ON
DECEMBER 30 AT 7 O’CLOCK IN
THE MORNING
DECEMBER 29 1986
6 DEATH SENTENCE WAS READ TO RIZAL
EARLY IN THE MORNING.
AND RIZAL DECIDED TO RETRACT
7
DECEMBER 30 1986
RIZAL AND JOSEPHINE WAS MARRIED
EXECUTION OF RIZAL
8
 THE ANTI-
RETRACTIONIST
AFTER ANALYZING SIX MAJOR DOCUMENTS
OF RIZAL
RICARDO PASCUAL CONCLUDED THAT THE RETRACTION
DOCUMENT
, SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISOVERED IN 1935 , WAS NOT IN
RIZALS HAND WRITING.

SENATOR RAFAEL PALMA , A FORMER

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILLIPINES AND
A PROMINENT MASON , ARGUED THAT A RETRACTION IS
NOT IN KEEPING WITH RIZALS CHARACTER AND MATURE
BELIEFS .
 PRO-
RETRACTIONIST
A. EYE WITNESS
* FATHER VICENTE BALAGUER- THE FIRST EYE WITNESS
*FATHER SANCHEZ VISITE RIZAL IN DAPITAN AND PERSUADED
HIM TO RETRACT.
*FATHER PATTELS HAD EXCHANGE SEVERAL LONG LETTERS
WITH RIZAL FOR THE SAME PRPOSE WITH FATHER SANCHEZ
*DECLARATION OR RETRACTION WAS SIGNED TOGETHER WITH
D R.RIZAL BY SEÑOR FRESNO, CHIEF OF THE PICKET , AND
SEÑOR MOURE , ADJUTANT OF THE PLAZA.
* FORMER LIEUTENANT OF THE INFANTRY –
(SECOND EYE WITNESS)
 THE CATHOLIC DEVOTION IT IS THE
BOOKS RIZAL WAS COMMON AND USUAL
AFTER RIZAL
RETRACTED , HE READ
ACCOMPANIED PRACTICE FOR THE
A BLUE PAMPHLET ENTITLED BY TWO CATHOLICS TO KISS
Aceptación de la muerte , THE CRUCIFIX
CONTAINING THE ACTS OF
CATHOLIC BEFORE THEY DIE .
FAITH , HOPE , AND CHARITY . PRIESTS TO HIS RIZAL DID SO AND
AFTER THIS , HE WENT TO EXECUTION KISSED THE
CONFESSION AND RECEIVED CRUCIFIX OFFERED
HOLY COMMUNION. GROUND.
TO HIM BY THE TWO
CATHOLIC BEFORE HE
WAS SHOT.
 FR. MANUEL A. GARCIA: BEST EVIDENCE.

IN FR. MANUEL A. GARCIAS ( ARCHDIOCESAN

ARCHIVIST WAY BACK 1935 ) ACCOUNT OF EVENTS , HE
CAME ACROSS A BUNDLE OF DOCUMENT ENTITLED “
MASONERA” IN THIS BUNDLE , HE CAME ACROSS THE
DOCUMENT OF RETRACTION WHICH HAD BEEN LONG
LOST.

ARCHIBISHOP O’DOHERTY , DESPITE THE

APPROVAL OF TEODORO KALAW ( THE DIRECTOR OF THE
NATIONAL LIBRARY ) WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE
MERE DOCUMENT ITSELF SO HE REQUESTED PROF. H.
AND EXAMINE THE RIZAL RETRACTION DOCUMENT . HE
EXAMINED RIZAL SUPPOSED HANDWRITING IN THE
DOCUMENT OF RETRACTION AND COMPARED IT WITH 150
LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS THAT WERE WITTEN IN
RIZAL’S HANDWRITING.

-THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT THAT EVERY

WORD ON THE DOCUMENT OF RETRACTION WAS
WRITTEN BY JOSE RIZAL , EXCEPT FOR THE SIGNATURES
 Dr. Jose I. del Rosario also compared this piece of
document with numerous letter

Dr. Jose I. del Rosario did not find anything in Rizal’s

retraction is in fact.

He points out the most salient individuals characteristics

points .

Identify between the handwriting of the retraction and the

undisputed handwriting of Rizal
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