COMMENDABLE
Rizal never forgot the value of a high sense of honor.
He impressed his pupils on the importance of good conduct and upright behavior.
He demonstrated obedience, self-control and discipline.
Many persons pressed Rizal to escape from
Dapitan in a baroto or banca, but he promised the authorities that he would not escape.
He also didn’t want to be called a runaway .
RIZAL TRIES TO SERVE SPAIN AS
A PHYSICIAN
On September 7, 1895, Blumentritt suggested that Rizal apply as a volunteer physician to serve in Cuba.
He applied and on July 30, 1896, he received a letter from Governor-Genereal Ramon
Blanco telling him of the approval of his application. Rizal left for Cuba on September 3, 1896
RIZAL’S DEATH IS THE CROWNING GLORY OF
HIS LEADERSHIP
On November 3, 1896, Rizal was imprisoned in Fort Santiago.
A trial was held on December 26, 1896.
The accusation against him was that forming secret societies and helping start the revolution.
He was sentenced to death by the Council of War and was approved by General Camilio G. De
Polavieja.
He ordered that Rizal will be shot at 7:00 o’clock on the morning of Dec. 30, at Bagumbayan Field.
After reading the sentence, Rizal was transferred from his prison cell to the chapel cell.
Rizal the wrote a letter to his parents, brother, and sisters also his friend, Blumentritt.
Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt.
My dear brother:
When you receive this letter, I shall be dead. Tomorrow at seven o’clock I shall be shot, but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a clear conscience.
Farewell, my best, my dearest friend, and never think ill of me.
My dear brother,
It has been four years and a half that we have not seen each other or have we addressed one another in writing or orally. I do not believe this is due to lack of affection either on my part or yours but because knowing each other so well, we had not need of words to understand each