Martyrdom at Bagumbayan

CHAPTER 6-C
The Life and Works of Rizal
 Rizal last moments with his
family and friends

December 29, 1896

6:00 a.m

Captain Rafael Dominguez, who was

designated by Governor General Polavieja to
take charge of all the arrangements for the
execution of the condemned prisoner, read the
death sentence to Rizal to be shot at the back
by a firing squad.
 Rizal last moments with his
family and friends

December 29, 1896

7:00 a.m

An hour after the reading of the death

sentence. Rizal was moved to the prison chapel,
where he spent his last hours. His first visitors
were Father Miguel Saderra Mata and Father
Luis Viza, Jesuit teacher.
 Rizal last moments with his
family and friends

December 29, 1896

7:15 a.m

Rector Saderra left. Rizal in a jovial mood

reminded Fr. Viza of the statuette of the
sacred Heart of Jesus which had been carved
with his pen knife as an Ateneo student. Fr.
Viza anticipating that reminiscence, got the
statuette and gave it ot Rizal.
 Rizal last moments with his
family and friends

Many more visitors arrived to visit Rizal before

his execution. From 12:00 (noon) to 3:30 p.m. Rizal
was left alone in his cell. He took his lunch then,
after he became busy writing. It was probably
during this time when he finished his farewell poem
and hid it inside his alcohol cooking stove, which was
given as a gift by Paz Pardo de Tavera (Juan Luna’s
wife).
 December 29, 1896

3:30 p.m Father Balaguer returned to Fort Santiago and discussed with Rizal
about his retraction of the anti-Cathoic ideas in his writings and
membership in Masonry.

4:00 p.m

Rizal had a short moment of excruciating farewell to his

mother and sister.
As they were leaving, Rizal gave the alcohol cooking stove to
Trinidad with a farewell poem in it.

During his last 24 hours on earth from 6 a.m December 29-December 30, 1896
he was busy meeting visitors, including Jesuit priests, Josephine Bracken and
 Last hours of Rizal

5:30 a.m
Josephine Bracken, accompanied by a
sister of Rizal (Josefa), arrived. With
tears in her eyes , Rizal’s wife painfully
bade him farewell. Rizal embraced her for
the last time, and before she left, rizal
gave her the last a religious book, Imitation
of Christ by father Thomas Kempis, which
he autographed.
 Death March to Bagumbayan

6:30 a.m
A trumpet sounded at Fort Santiago, a
signal to begin the death march to Bagumbayan, the
designated place for the execution.
Finally, the death ruffles of the drumsfilled the
air. Above the drum beats, the sharp command
“Fire” was heard and the guns of the firing squad
barked Rizal with the supreme effort, turned his
bullet riddled body to the right, and fell on the
ground dead. It was exactly 7:03 in the morning
when he died in the bloom of manhood aged 35
years, five months, and 11 days.
Prepared by:
Ammer Al-hosaine Alamada
Christine Mae Castaneda
John Lhord Cabalfin