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    Tep Analysis in Rizal

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    This document summarizes the debate around an alleged retraction document signed by Jose Rizal shortly before his execution. Some key points of contention are the date on the original document, conflicting versions of the text, and questions around its authenticity given Rizal's anti-Catholic views. While it remains unclear if Rizal truly retracted, the document argues his hero status does not depend on his religious views at the end, but what he accomplished for the Philippines.

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    This document summarizes the debate around an alleged retraction document signed by Jose Rizal shortly before his execution. Some key points of contention are the date on the original document, conflicting versions of the text, and questions around its authenticity given Rizal's anti-Catholic views. While it remains unclear if Rizal truly retracted, the document argues his hero status does not depend on his religious views at the end, but what he accomplished for the Philippines.

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    This document summarizes the debate around an alleged retraction document signed by Jose Rizal shortly before his execution. Some key points of contention are the date on the original document, conflicting versions of the text, and questions around its authenticity given Rizal's anti-Catholic views. While it remains unclear if Rizal truly retracted, the document argues his hero status does not depend on his religious views at the end, but what he accomplished for the Philippines.

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    Tep Analysis in Rizal

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    This document summarizes the debate around an alleged retraction document signed by Jose Rizal shortly before his execution. Some key points of contention are the date on the original document, conflicting versions of the text, and questions around its authenticity given Rizal's anti-Catholic views. While it remains unclear if Rizal truly retracted, the document argues his hero status does not depend on his religious views at the end, but what he accomplished for the Philippines.

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    Rizal’s Most Contested and Ever Incontestable Manuscript

    (GE 112)

    By: Stephanie M. Villegas

    October 2019
    Analysis

    This article, it talks about Rizal's Most Contested and Ever Incontestable manuscript:
    retraction of Rizal, the document of Jose Rizal of his retraction is being hotly debated as to its
    authenticity. It was supposed to have been signed by Jose Rizal moments before his death. There
    were many witnesses, most of them Jesuits. A series of seemingly genuine secret documents,
    with forged signatures, were attached to a British corpse dressed in military uniforms. It was left
    to float somewhere in a beach in Spain, where plenty of German agents were sure to get hold of
    it. The body with the fake documents was found eventually and its documents seen by German
    agents.
    The documents identified Sardinia and Corsica as the targets of the Allied invasion. The
    document only surfaced for public. It was found by Fr. Manuel A. Gracia at the Catholic
    hierarchy’s archive in Manila. But the original document was never shown to the public, only
    reproductions of it. However, Fr. Pio Pi, a Spanish Jesuit, reported that as early as 1907, the
    retraction of Rizal was copied verbatim and published in Spain, and reprinted in Manila. Fr.
    Gracia, who found the original document, also copied it verbatim. In both reproductions, there
    were conflicting versions of the text. Add to this the date of the signing was very clear in the
    original Spanish document which Rizal supposedly signed. The date was december 29, 1890. It
    became useless, because for those who thought that Rizal's greatness lies on his anti-catholic
    ideas and writings, the retraction document became a total denial of such greater and that could
    not be.
    Therefore, we must put the question of retraction to rest, though Rizal is a hero, whether
    he retracted or not, we must investigate if he really did a turn-around. If he did not, and the
    documents were forgeries, then somebody has to pay for trying to deceive a nation, whether
    Rizal died a Catholic or an apostate adds or detracts nothing from his greatness as a Filipino. It is
    because of what he did and what he was that we revere Rizal. Catholic or Mason, Rizal is still
    Rizal, the hero who courted death, to prove to those who deny our patriotism that we know how
    to die for our duty and our beliefs.

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