WAYS TO PROVING THAT RIZAL DID NOT RETRACT

What is RETRACTION?

-a statement saying that something you said or wrote at an earlier time is not true or correct.

TWO WITNESSES:

-Baron Fernandez (EYEWITNESS)

- A Spanish orphan who worked for almost half century in two historical secret archives in Madrid and Segovia, had an
eyewitness account of the retraction which he discovered in those repertories of Spain's dirty secrets. He found 34
documents including handwritten letters, telegrams, and military documents including a thick sheaf of Rizal's defense. He
had written himself days before he was murdered at Bagumbayan.

Fernandez said:

" I have documents stating that before he faced death, Rizal told his sister Narcisa to look inside his shoes because
he had left a letter. According to Fernandez, that letter could only be a denial of his retraction because Rizal knew the
friars were misleading the Filipinos and he wanted to set the record straight".

-Manuel Morato

Manuel Morato's "Expose"

- A friend of Baron Fernandez, subsequently bought from Fernande the Intellectual Property right to the vauable
manuscripts.

Morato said in his "expose" that the friars forged the retraction letter and published in the Clerico- Fascist
newspapers at that time. Morato confirmed "No, Rizal never retracted although that fake retraction was published by
friars then and is still sadly peddled in most school, but that is not true."

Both Morato and Fernandez have documents to prove that when Rizal was in Dapitan, he was allowed to go to
Cebu with Josephine Bracken and Archbishop of Cebu, at that time, tried to dangle marriage and coaxed him to retract

Mr. Palm's coetaneous acts which undermine the belief that Rizal retracted:

1. The Documents of retraction were kept secret, only copies of it were furnished to the newspapers, but, with the
exception of one person, nobody saw the original.

2. When the family of Rizal asked for the original of the said document or a copy of the alleged retraction letter, the
petition was denied.

3. Rizal's burial was kept secret.

No masses were said for his soul or funeral held by Catholics

Notwithstanding the claim that Rizal was reconciled with the church, he was not buried in a Catholic cemetery in Paco but
in a ground

The entry in the book of burials of the interment of Rizal's body is not made on the page with those burials.

CONCLUSION:

If Rizal retracted, he would not have been executed. But he was executed; therefore, Rizal did not retract. He
would have been an example for the cause of the friars; he would have been given a decent Christian burial, not buried
like a dead dog outside Paco Cemetery.
References:

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