RETRACTION OF

JOSE P. RIZAL
 BRIEF SUMMARY OF RIZAL’S
IDEOLOGIES
 Rizal’s philosophy of education, therefore, centers on the provision of proper motivation in
order to bolster the great social forces that make education a success, to create in the youth an
innate desire to cultivate his intelligence and give him life eternal.
 Rizal’s guiding political philosophy proved to be the study and application of reforms, the
extension of human rights, the training for self government and the arousing of spirit of
discontent over oppression, brutality, inhumanity, sensitiveness and self love.
 To bolster his ethical philosophy, Dr. Rizal had recognized not only the forces of good and
evil, but also the tendencies towards good and evil. As a result, he made use of the practical
method of appealing to the better nature of the conquerors and of offering useful methods of
solving the moral problems of the conquered.
 BRIEF SUMMARY OF RIZAL’S
LIFE
 José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
 born June 19, 1861, Calamba, Philippines—died December 30, 1896, Manila
 In 1887 Rizal published his first novel, Noli me tangere (The Social Cancer), a passionate
exposure of the evils of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
 A sequel, El filibusterismo (1891; The Reign of Greed), established his reputation as the
leading spokesman of the Philippine reform movement. He published an annotated edition
(1890; reprinted 1958)
 FACTS ABOUT
THE RETRACTION
OF RIZAL
RIZAL ABANDONS THE
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS
FIGHT
 In 1891, Rizal was convinced that the political ,and religious fight he was
waging in Spain through La Solidaridad and other means in order to get the
longsought reforms from Spain was a failure. He believed it was useless to
continue. He also believed that his place was no longer in Madrid but in the
Philippines among his loved ones, relatives,and people who suffered more and
more everyday because of him. He finally believed that the fight must be
changed from the political and religious fields to the economic and educational
through the united efforts of the Filipinos themselves.
RIZAL ATTENDS MASS EVERY
SUNDAY IN DAPITAN
 His life in Dapitan was no longer that of a fighting crusader but of a
peaceful man. If we compare the letter given to Ferdinand
Blumentritt and his mother wherein it shows the sudden
transformation to Rizal’s emotional state. Rizal had stopped going
to his church at the time while he is in prison and fighting the
Spanish officials in the vicious friars in the Philippines. But when
he is exiled he stopped entirely fighting the Spaniards and he
attended mass every Sunday.
RIZAL AGREES TO RETRACT
IN DAPITAN
 February of 1893, Rizal “Became acquainted to Josephine
Bracken and his soul immersed in solitude awakened
eagerly to the allurements” Josephine reciprocated Rizal’s
love and they went to Father Obach, parish priest of
Dapitan to get married but he rejected due to his Masonic
affiliation. Father Obach demanded a retraction from Rizal
as a condition.
THE CATHOLIC DEVOTIONAL
BOOKS
 De la Imitacion De Cristo y menosprecio del mundo
 “To my dear and unhappy wife”
DE LA IMITACION DE CRISTO Y MENOSPRECIO
DEL MUNDO

 (Imitation of Christ and Contempt of the World).

ANCHOR OF SALVATION
THE TWO PRIESTS AND THE
CRUCIFIX
 The Last Paseo of Rizal preparatory to his eternal rest I described by Palma,

“The pride of malay race”

 At 6:30 a group of people who protest was formed rapidly and left Fort Santiago Rizal was
tied elbow to elbow at his side were two priests, Father Vilaclara and March, and behind him
were is defender Raviel de Andrade, and an escort of artillery.
 The party filed off along the left side of the boulevard know as Paseo de Maria Cristina (Now
Andres Bonifacio avenue)
Two priests bowed their heads in pious prayers for the soul of Rizal
“WE ARE ON THE ROAD TO
CALVARY”
“I can well realize now the passion
of Christ; mine is so
insignificance.”
 The majority the Spaniards had come satiate their curiosity, to witness the death of him whom
they erroneously deemed to be the head of the insurrection. The Filipinos who wished to see
his face, to know the leader who challenged tyranny.
 Rizal was reminiscing events that happened in his life, when he saw Ateneo he said “I spent a
few years there”
 Friars and Spaniards drove about in carriages, eager to have the satisfaction of seeing the
victim of their persecution fall.
“I HAVE NOT BEEN A TRAITOR TO MY
COUNTRY NOR TO THE SPANISH NATION”
THE DOCUMENT OF
RETRACTION
“Manila 29 de Diciembre de 1896.” Since this
illustration came from a photostat copy given by
his grace, there is no doubt that the original
retraction from where it came is also dated “1896”
not “1890.” Any Rizal retraction dated “1890” is,
therefore, “doctored”- a fake.
FORGING OF JOSEPHINE
BRACKEN’S
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
 Rendering that “ autobiography” cheaper than rubbish is a letter of Josephine Bracken to
Josefa Rizal dated June 4, 1897, or three and a half months after she was supposed to have
died by ecclesiastical invention. Reproduced elsewhere in this book, the letter, in the
possession of the authors, stated that Josephine was so healthy she was leaving for America on
business. She had even come back to the Philippines, got married again and even shamelessly
filed a law suit against the Rizal family.
OPERATION VENGEANCE
 It traces the various attempts by the Spanish authorities and the friars to prevent the entry of
liberal ideas into the Philippines. It portrays Rizal as the greatest threat to the Spanish power in
the Philippines because of his writings- specially his Noli and Fili. Again I say that I have no
quarrel with Runes and Buenafe on all that. It does not mean, however, that Rizal did not
retract.
THANK YOU MGA BEH
DI SIYA NAGRETRACT AHHHHHHHHKKKK