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    Rizal was found guilty of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy by the Spanish authorities and sentenced to death. On his last day, he received many visitors in his cell and was said to have recanted his statements against the Catholic Church, though scholars debate the authenticity of this document. In his final hours, Rizal wrote letters to his family and friends, including a poem hidden in an alcohol burner. He was executed by firing squad at 7am on December 30th at age 35, facing his executioners and falling back to face the Philippine sun.

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    Rizal was found guilty of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy by the Spanish authorities and sentenced to death. On his last day, he received many visitors in his cell and was said to have recanted his statements against the Catholic Church, though scholars debate the authenticity of this document. In his final hours, Rizal wrote letters to his family and friends, including a poem hidden in an alcohol burner. He was executed by firing squad at 7am on December 30th at age 35, facing his executioners and falling back to face the Philippine sun.

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    Rizal was found guilty of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy by the Spanish authorities and sentenced to death. On his last day, he received many visitors in his cell and was said to have recanted his statements against the Catholic Church, though scholars debate the authenticity of this document. In his final hours, Rizal wrote letters to his family and friends, including a poem hidden in an alcohol burner. He was executed by firing squad at 7am on December 30th at age 35, facing his executioners and falling back to face the Philippine sun.

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    Rizal was found guilty of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy by the Spanish authorities and sentenced to death. On his last day, he received many visitors in his cell and was said to have recanted his statements against the Catholic Church, though scholars debate the authenticity of this document. In his final hours, Rizal wrote letters to his family and friends, including a poem hidden in an alcohol burner. He was executed by firing squad at 7am on December 30th at age 35, facing his executioners and falling back to face the Philippine sun.

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    RIZAL’S LAST HOURS

    On December 26, 1896, the military court tried Jose Rizal and later found him guilty of
    rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. The Spanish authorities believed that Rizal’s writings
    “fatally and necessarily” incited the rebellion which, by 1896, had already become a
    revolution. On December 29 at 6 a.m., Capt. Rafael Dominguez read before Rizal his
    death sentence. His execution was scheduled the following day.
    At around 7 a.m. of December 29, Rizal was transferred to his death cell in Fort
    Santiago. There he received numerous visitors, including his counsel; some Spanish
    officials; and several priests, his former professors, with whom he supposedly discussed
    reason and religion. The Archbishop of Manila, Rev. Bernardino Nozaleda, recalled:
    “During that day, although Rizal did not reject [the Jesuits], he persisted in his errors
    contrary to the Catholic faith.… However, at the last hour, Rizal abjured, in writing, his
    religious errors.” In other words, Rizal, a Mason, was said to have recanted his
    statements against the Church and to have returned to the Catholic faith.
    The controversy over Rizal’s retraction has not been settled. The “original” document of
    Rizal’s “retraction” was found in the archdiocesan archives in 1935, 39 years after
    having disappeared the day Rizal was shot. There was no record of anybody seeing this
    “original” document in 1896, except the publishers of La Voz Española, which published
    its contents on the day of Rizal’s execution: “We have seen and read his (Rizal’s) own
    handwritten retraction which he sent to our dear and venerable Archbishop….” Most
    experts think that the handwriting on the document is authentic. However, scholars are
    baffled as to why Rizal, who courageously faced persecution for most of his life, and
    who was finally sentenced to death for his beliefs, would suddenly balk at the last, futile
    moment. (For more discussion on Rizal’s retraction, see Garcia, 1964; Guerrero, 1998;
    and Vaño, 1985).
    In his last hours Rizal read the Bible and Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ, which
    he later dedicated to Josephine Bracken. He also wrote the poem “Mi Ultimo Adiós,”
    which he concealed in an alcohol burner. When his family came to see him, he asked
    pardon from his mother and talked to his sisters as they entered his cell one by one. He
    also wrote letters. In his last letter, addressed to Paciano Rizal, he asked his brother to
    ask their father for forgiveness for all the pain he had caused him. To his friend
    Ferdinand Blumentritt, he wrote: “When you receive this letter, I shall be dead by
    then…. Tomorrow at seven, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion….
    I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.”
    At 7 a.m. on December 30, 1896 at Luneta, Manila, the 35-year-old patriot was shot in
    the back by a firing squad. He hesitated, turned halfway around to face his
    executioners, and fell on his back to face the Philippine sun.

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