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JOSE RIZAL'S

RETRACTION

Module 3.3.
• La Voz Espanola and Diario de Manila's Narration
ARGUMENTS • Vano (1985) presented the four text in his book
FAVORING THE entitled "Light in the Rizal's Death Cell". The
first was published in La Voz Espanola and Diario
RETRACTION 
de Manila on the very day of Rizal's execution,
December 30, 1896. 
• The second is from Father
Balaguer's text dated January
1897. 

• Father Manuel Garcia's Text 


• The third is alleged
"original" text from Father
Manuel Garcia dated May
18, 1935. 
Letters of
Josephine
Bracken 
• According to De Viana
(2013), in 1961, the Jose
Rizal National Centennial
Commission published
Rizal's letter to his friends
and relatives. Included
among these letters was one
made by Josephine Bracken
in 1897 which  was a brief
description of her life. 
• Chronology of Events In or Around
Rizal’s Death Cell
• An Eyewitness Account
by Rev. Fr. Antonio
Rosell
Statement of Baron Fernandez
• Baron Fernandez, a Spanish orphan who wokred for
almost half a century in two secret archives in Madrid
and Segovia. He found a thick sheaf of Rizal’s defense
ARGUMENTS (unofficial defense – ADICIORES A MI DEFENSA0
AGAINST which he had written before his execution in December
RETRACTION 30, 1896. Fernandez said “I have documents stating
before he faced death, Rial told Narcisa to look inside his
shoes because he had a secret letter there (Pasigui &
Cabalu, 2006).
Josephine Bracken Failed to Produce
Manoling Morato's "Expose“
Marriage Contract
• Manoling Morato, a friend of Baron • After Jose Rizal’s death in 1896,
Fernandez, bought from Fernandez the Josephine Bracken sued Rizal Family in
alleged document containing Rizal’s order to produce the so-called “Jose’s Last
denial of the said retraction that took place Will and Testament” even wrote
hours before his execution. Morato Ferdinand Blumentritt asking help to
maintained that Rizal never retracted claim some properties entitled to her
although friars managed to published a being the widow of Rizal.
fake copy of his retraction (Pasigui &
Cabalu, 2006).

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