Jose Rizal died on December 30, 1896.
Moments before his execution on December 30, 1896, by a squad of
Filipino soldiers of the Spanish Army, a backup force of regular Spanish
Army troops stood ready to shoot the executioners should they fail to
obey orders.The Spanish Army Surgeon General requested to take his pulse: it was
normal. Aware of this the Sergeant commanding the backup force hushed
his men to silence when they began raising "vivas" with the highly
partisan crowd of Peninsular and Mestizo Spaniards. His last words were
those of Jesus Christ: "consummatum est",--it is finished.
He was secretly buried in Pacò
Cemetery in Manila with no identification on his grave. His sister
Narcisa toured all possible gravesites and found freshly turned earth at
the cemetery with guards posted at the gate. Assuming this could be the
most likely spot, there never having any ground burials, she made a
gift to the caretaker to mark the site "RPJ", Rizal's initials in
reverse.
His undated poem, Mi último adiós
believed to be written a few days before his execution, was hidden in
an alcohol stove, which was later handed to his family with his few
remaining possessions, including the final letters and his last
bequests.During their visit, Rizal reminded his sisters in English, "There is something inside it",
referring to the alcohol stove given by the Pardo de Taveras which was
to be returned after his execution, thereby emphasizing the importance
of the poem. This instruction was followed by another, "Look in my shoes",
in which another item was secreted. Exhumation of his remains in August
1898, under American rule, revealed he had been unconfined, his burial
not on sanctified ground granted the 'confessed' faithful, and whatever
was in his shoes had disintegrated. And now he is buried in Rizal
Monument in Manila.
In his letter to his family he wrote:
"Treat our aged parents as you would wish to be treated...Love them greatly in memory of me...December 30, 1896." He gave his family instructions for his burial: "Bury me in the ground.
Place a stone and a cross over it. My name, the date of my birth and of
my death. Nothing more. If later you wish to surround my grave with a
fence, you can do it. No anniversaries."[42]
In his final letter, to Blumentritt – Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience. Rizal is believed to be the first Filipino revolutionary whose death is
attributed entirely to his work as a writer; and through dissent and civil disobedience
enabled him to successfully destroy Spain's moral primacy to rule. He
also bequeathed a book personally bound by him in Dapitan to his 'best
and dearest friend.' When Blumentritt received it in his hometown Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) he broke down and wept.
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