LALUNIO, XYZER CORPUZ

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Rizals Life and

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THE LAST DAYS OF JOS RIZAL: A Timeline of His Arrival, Last Arrest,
Incarceration, Execution
DATE

6 October, 1896

3 November, 1896

20 November, 1896

26 November, 1896

8 December, 1896

11 December, 1896

EVENT

3:00 AM - On his 4th day of being held in his cabin at the MV Isla de
Panay docked at Barcelona, Spain on his way to Cuba, Rizal was
awakened to be brought to Montjuich Prison in Barcelona, Spain.
2:00 PM - Interview with General Eulogio Despujol
8:00 PM - Aboard the Colon, Rizal left Barcelona for Manila.

Rizal was brought to Fort Santiago, where other patriots, including his
brother Paciano, were being tortured to implicate him. Paciano
refused to sign anything despite being his body broken and his left
hand crushed.
Preliminary investigation began with Rizal appearing before Judge
Advocate Colonel Francisco Olive. The investigation lasted five days.
The records of the case were handed over to Governor General
Ramon Blanco who then appointed Captain Rafael Dominguez as
special Judge Advocate.
From a list submitted to him by the authorities, he chose the brother
of his friend, Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade to become his trial lawyer. He
was only made to choose among army officers and not a civilian
lawyer.
In his prison cell, Rizal was read the charges against him: principal
organizer and the living soul of the Filipino insurrection, the founder of
societies, periodicals and books dedicated to fomenting and
propagating the ideas of rebellion.

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15 December, 1896
25 December, 1896

26 December, 1896

29 December, 1896

29 December, 1896

Ramon Blanco was replaced by Camilo de Polavieja, a more ruthless

character, as Governor General of the Philippines. Dominguez
submitted the papers of the Rizal case to Malacaan Palace.
Rizal issued his manifesto to certain Filipinos calling to end the
absurd rebellion and to fight for liberties with education as a
prerequisite. The authorities supressed the manifesto.
Rizals saddest Christmas, away from family and friends.
Trial of Rizal began at the Cuartel de Espaa. On the same day, the
court-martial secretly and unanimously voted for a guilty verdict with
the penalty of death before a firing squad
Polavieja signs the death verdict.
6:00 AM - Rizal was read his verdict by Captain Rafael Dominguez:
To be shot the next day at 7:00 AM at the Luneta de Bagumbayan
(Rizal Park).
7:00 AM - Rizal was transferred to the chapel cell adorned by
religious images to convince him to go back to the Catholic fold. His
first visitors were Jesuit priests Fathers Miguel Saderra Mata and Luis
Viza.
7:15 AM - After Fr. Saderra left, Rizal asked Fr. Viza for the Sacred
Heart statuette which he carved when he was an Ateneo student.
From his pocket the statuette appears
8:00 AM - Fr. Viza was relieved by Fr. Antonio Rosell who joined Rizal
for breakfast. Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade joins them.
9:00 AM - Fr. Federico Faura, who once said that Rizal would lose his
head for writing the Noli Me Tangere, arrived. Rizal told him, Father
you are indeed a prophet.
10:00 AM - Fathers Jos Vilaclara and Vicente Balaguer visisted
Rizal, followed by a Spanish journalist, Santiago Mataix of El Heraldo
de Madrid, for an interview
12:00-3:30 PM - Rizals time alone in his cell. He had lunch, wrote
letters and probably wrote his last poem of 14 stanzas which he wrote
in his flowing handwriting in a very small piece of paper. He hid it
inside his alcohol stove. The untitled poem was later known as Mi
Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell). In its second stanza, he already
praised the revolutionaries in the battlefield for giving their lives
without doubt, without gloom.
3:30 PM - Fr. Balaguer visits again and, according to him, talks to

30 December

Rizal about retracting his anti-Catholic writings and his being a

mason.
6:00 PM - Rizal was visited by the Dean of the Manila Cathedral, Don
Silvino Lopez Tuon. Fathers Balaguer and March left Father
Vilaclara to be with the two.
8:00 PM - Rizals last supper where he informed Captain Dominguez
that he already forgave those who condemned him.
9:30 PM - Rizal was visited by the fiscal of the Royal Audiencia of
Manila, Don Gaspar Cestao with whom Rizal offered the best chair
of the cell. According to accounts, the fiscal left with a good
impression of Rizals intelligence and noble character.
3:00 AM - According to Father Balaguers account, Rizal asked to
have confession, hear mass and be given Holy Communion.
Allegedly he also signed the document retracting his anti-Catholic
writings and his membership in masonry.
5:30 AM - Rizal took his last meal. According to stories told to
Narcisa by Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade, Rizal threw some eggs in the
corner of a cell for the poor rats, Let them have their fiesta too.
Rizal also wrote to his family and to his brother.
6:00 AM - Rizal wrote his father, Francisco Mercado My beloved
Father, Pardon me for the pain with which I repay you for sorrows and
sacrifices for my education. I did not want nor did I prefer it.
Goodbye, Father, goodbye Jose Rizal. To his mother, he had only
these words, To my very dear Mother, Sra. Da Teodora Alonso 6
oclock in the morning, December 30, 1896. Jose Rizal.
6:30 AM - Death march from Fort Santiago to Bagumbayan begins. 4
soldiers with bayoneted rifles lead the procession followed by Rizal,
Taviel de Andrade, Fathers Vilaclara and March and other soldiers.
They passed by the Intramuros plaza, then turned right to the Postigo
gate then left at Malecon, the bayside road now known as Bonifacio
Drive.
7:00 AM - Rizal, after arriving on the execution site at the Luneta de
Bagumbayan, was checked with his pulse by Dr. Felipe Ruiz Castillo.
It was perfectly normal. Rizal once wrote, I wish to show those who
deny us patriotism that we know how to die for our duty and our
convictions.
7:03 AM - With the captain shouting Fuego! Shouts rang out from
the guns of eight indio soldiers. Rizal, being a convicted criminal was

not facing the firing squad. As he was hit, he resists and turns himself
to face his executors. He falls down, and dies facing the sky.