http://joserizal.info/Biography/man_and_martyr/chapter16.

htm

“The strongest argument was the character of Rizal. It was but a few months before that he had rejected
Father Sanchez’ offer of a professorship, a hundred thousand pesos, and an estate if he would retract;
and he had declared that he could not be bought for half the Philippines.”

http://joserizal.info/Reflections/retraction.htm

(1) The Retraction Document is said to be a forgery. As we have noted, the Document plays a significant
part on both sides of the debate. There are four prongs to the case against the document itself.

(2) The second main line of argument against the Retraction is the claim that other acts and facts do not
fit well with the story of the Retraction. Those most often referred to by writers beginning with
Hermengildo Cruz in 1912 are as follows:

http://www.inquirer.net/saturday/nov99wk2/spc_3.htm

The film holds that Rizal did not retract, because it would run counter to everything he believed and
wrote about the church’s complicity in the subjugation of Filipinos

http://www.backpackingphilippines.com/2007/12/on-jose-rizals-retraction-great-debate.html
There no records of marriage between Rizal and Josephine Bracken as a reward if Rizal did retract. The
love birds earlier sought this while Rizal was exiled in Dapitan (FYI, there’s also a version of an earlier
Dapitan retraction that Rizal signed but withdrawn at the right time. some sort of retraction retracted)

The “original” retraction document was never submitted to an independent testing body for
authentication.

The blown-up picture of Rizal’s execution, now displayed at the Manila City Hall, shows Rizal without a
rosary in his hand like what Fr. Balaguer and biographers Guerrero and Cavanna have written.

All these arguments and counter-arguments continue to fuel one of the greatest debates on history and
possibly the greatest hoax in history.

http://www.dapitan.com/rizalsadapitaninsert.htm

The streamer Cebu which brought Rizal to Dapitan carried a letter from Father Pablo Pastells, Superior of
the Jesuits parish priest of Dapitan. In this letter, Father Superior Pastells informed Father Obach that
Rizal could live at the parish convent on the following conditions:

1.”That Rizal publicly retract his errors concerning religion, and make statements that

were clearly pro-Spanish and against revolution”.

2.”That he perform the church rites and make a general confession of his past life”.

3.That henceforth he conduct himself in an exemplary manner as a Spanish subject and

a man of religion.”

Rizal did not agree with these conditions. Conse- quently, he lived in the house of the commandant,
Captain Carnicero. THE ALLEGED RETRACTION LETTER OF RIZAL CONTENT (PERHAPS IT WAS REALLY
FORGED BY THE FRIARS) because Rizal once exposed that it was one of the ways a friar can destroy the
reputation of his enemy.

THERE IS REALLY A POSSIBILITY SINCE RIZAL NARRATED IT ON HIS NOVEL. (CLICK THE PICTURE TO MAKE
IT BIGGER) IT IS IN CHAPTER 60 OF NOLI ME TANGERE.