MARTYRDOM AT
BAGUMBAYAN
After being court- martialed,
Rizal returned to his cell in Fort
Santiago to prepare his
rendezvous with destiny.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- Capt. Rafael Rodriguez was assigned by
Gov. Gen. Camilo Polavieja to read Rizal’s
death sentence.
- Rizal moved to the prison chapel, where he
spent his last moments.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- Rizal reminded Fr. Luis Viza the statuette of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus whom he carved as
a student in Ateneo.
- Fr. Federico Faura arrived.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- Fr. Jose Villaclara and Fr. Vicente Balaguer
visited Rizal then discussed with him his
retraction letter.
- Rizal stayed in his cell. He was busy writing
poems in an alcohol cooking stove.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- Teodora Alonzo visited him. They had a
very emotional encounter. Rizal gave the
alcohol cooking stove to Trinidad which
contains his farewell poem.
- Don Silvino Tunon, the Dean of the Manila
Cathedral visited Rizal.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- Rizal had his last supper. He told Captain
Dominguez that he forgave his enemies
including the military judges.
- Rizal was visited by Don Gaspar Cestano,
fiscal of the Royal Audience de Manila
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 29, 1896
- The draft of the retraction letter sent by the
anti-Filipino Archbishop Bernardo
Nozaledawas given by Fr. Balaguer to Rizal
for his signatures. He rejected it.
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 30, 1896
- Rizal heard Mass, he confessed his sins and
took Holy Communion
- He took his last breakfast
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“
Rizal said, “Now I am about to die,
and it is to you I dedicate my last
lines, to tell you how sad I am to
leave you alone in life, burdened with
the weight of the family and our old
parents.”
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 30, 1896
- Josephine Bracken arrived together with
Rizal’s sisters, Josefa with tears in her eyes,
bade him farewell.
- Soldiers were getting ready for the death
march of Bagumbayan, Rizal wrote his last
letter to his beloved parents.
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“
My beloved Father, pardon me for
the pain with which I repay you, for
sorrows and sacrifices for my
education. I did not want it nor did I
prefer it. Goodbye Father, goodbye.”
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“
To my very dear Mother, Sra Dona
Teodora Alonso, 6 o’clock in the
morning.”
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LAST HOUR OF DR. JOSE P RIZAL
December 30, 1896
- A trumpet sounded at Fort Santiago to signal
the death march to Bagumbayan.
- Rizal walked calmly with his defense
counsel and two jesuit priest at his sides.
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- As Rizal going through the narrow Postigo
Gate, Rizal look at the sky and said to the
one of the priest; “ How beautiful it is today,
Father. What morning could be more serene!
How clear is corregidor and mountains of
Cavite! On mornings like this, I used to take
a walk with my sweetheart.
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- A Spanish military physician, Dr. Felipe
Ruiz Castillo, asked his permission to feel
his pulse.
- Exactly 7:30 in the morning the death ruffles
of the drums filled the air. Above the drum
beats, the sharp command “Fire” was heard,
and the guns of the firing squad barked.
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Rizal, with supreme effort, turned his bullet
riddled body to the right, and fell on the ground
dead - with face upward facing the morning sun.
- 14 years before his execution Rizal predicted
that he would die on December 30. He was
then a medical student in Madrid, Spain.
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