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    The document discusses Jose Rizal's alleged retraction of his writings and conversion to Catholicism before his execution. There are two accounts from Jesuit priests claiming Rizal recanted, but two scholars doubt the veracity of the retraction. Rafael Palma argues the retraction was a "pious fraud" to bolster the Church's prestige, while the Jesuits used Rizal's conversion for political motives regardless of his true convictions. Austin Coates believes Rizal doubted any fraud and the archbishop was likely behind coercing the retraction.

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    The document discusses Jose Rizal's alleged retraction of his writings and conversion to Catholicism before his execution. There are two accounts from Jesuit priests claiming Rizal recanted, but two scholars doubt the veracity of the retraction. Rafael Palma argues the retraction was a "pious fraud" to bolster the Church's prestige, while the Jesuits used Rizal's conversion for political motives regardless of his true convictions. Austin Coates believes Rizal doubted any fraud and the archbishop was likely behind coercing the retraction.

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    The Rizal Retraction securing the retraction document from

    the Archbishop of Manila Bernardino


    Historical context
    Nozaleda, and writing another shorter
     Dr. Jose Rizal was arrested, tried, and retraction document as well which was
    sentenced to death by a Spanish court- the one Rizal allegedly copied.
    martial after being implicated as a
    Rafael Palma’s Critical Analysis
    leader of the Philippine Revolution.
     “Rizal’s conversion was a pious fraud to
     At the Luneta on December 30, 1896, make the people believe that the
    accounts exist that Rizal allegedly extraordinary man broke down and
    retracted his Masonic ideals and his succumbed before the Church which he
    writings and reconverted to Catholicism had fought. The Archbishop was
    following several hours of persuasion by interested in his conversion for political
    Jesuit priests. motives, and the Jesuits lent themselves
    as his instrument. The example of Rizal
    The following primary sources are of two kinds:
    would have great resonance in the
    the first two are the official accounts as
    whole country and it was necessary to
    witnessed by the Jesuits who were
    bolster the drooping prestige of religion
    instrumental in the alleged retraction of Rizal.
    with his abjuration. What if Rizal was a
    The other two are critical analyses by two
    man of valor and convictions and his
    Rizalist scholars who doubted the story of
    conversion would be unbelievable? So
    retraction.
    much the better. The interest of religion
    Fr. Vicente Balaguer’s Statement was above him. His aureole of glory had
    to be done away with if necessary.
     Fr. Vicente Balaguer was one of the What did it matter? He was only an
    Jesuit priests who visited Rizal during indio.”
    his last hours in Fort Santiago and
    claimed that he managed to persuade Austin Coates’ Critical Analysis
    Rizal to denounce Masonry and return • “Rizal believed that there was a strong
    to the Catholic fold. In an affidavit likelihood of fraud, and that the prime
    executed in 1917 when he had returned mover in this world would be the friar
    to Spain, Balaguer also claimed that he archbishop.”
    was the one who solemnized the
    marriage of Josephine Bracken and Rizal • “Balaguer had the intelligence to
    hours before the hero’s execution. perceive that everything depended on
    the speed and audacity with which he
    Fr. Pio Pi’s statement declared his success.”
     Fr. Pio Pi was the Jesuit Superior in the • “Balaguer had in fact damaged the
    Philippines during the time when Rizal Church’s case. Worse than this, he had
    was executed. In 1917, he issued the unwittingly revealed his own fraud. In
    affidavit recounting his involvement in his account he made no mention of the
    the alleged retraction of Rizal. Unlike Fr. Ultimo Adios.”
    Balaguer, he was involved only in

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