Rizal's Death (last 25 hours) Flashcards by Do Re Mi

[Last 25 hours] On December 29, 1896 at 6AM, Judge Advocate ________ formally read the death sentence of Rizal

Dominguez

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[Last 25 hours] At about 7am, Rizal was transferred to either his ______ or ______

death cell, or prison chapel

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[Last 25 hours] In his death cell/prison chapel, Rizal was visited by two Jesuit priests. Who were they?

Miguel Saderra Mata
Luis Viza

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[Last 25 hours] What did the two Jesuit priests bring to Rizal in his death cell/prison cell?

Ateneo’s Marian Congregation of which Rizal was a member and the wooden status of the Sacred Heart of Jesus he had carved

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[Last 25 hours] The two Jesuit priest that visited Rizal brought a medal and a wooden image he had carved in school, did he accept both?

No, he only accepted the carving and put it on his table

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[Last 25 hours] Why did Rizal reject the medal that the two Jesuit priests brought?

“I’m little of Marian, Father”

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[Last 25 hours] At 8Am, the priest _____ arrived, after his co-priest Viza left.

Antonio Rosell

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[Last 25 hours] What did Rizal and Antonio Rosell do?

Rizal shared his breakfast with Rosell

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[Last 25 hours] After Rosell’s visit, Lt. Andrade came. What did Rizal do?

Thanked Andrade

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[Last 25 hours] Who interviewed Rizal at about 9Am

Santiago Mataix of the Spanish newspaper El Heraldo de Madrid

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[Last 25 hours] Who came and visited Rizal at 10am?

priest Federico Faura

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[Last 25 hours] What did priest Federico Faura say to Rizal?

Advised him to forget about his resentment and marry Josephine canonically

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[Last 25 hours] Who was there to witness Rizal and priest Federico Faura’s heated discussion about religion?

Rosell

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[Last 25 hours] Who were the two other priests (missionaries in Dapitan) that visited Rizal at 11AM?

Jose Vilaclara
Vicente Balaguer

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[Last 25 hours] What did Jose Vilacara and Vicente Balaguer tried to convince Rizal to do?

Write a retraction

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[Last 25 hours] Did Rizal accepted/followed Jose Vilaclara and Vicente Balaguer’s advice? Why or why not?

Though still believing in Holy Scriptures, he supposedly refused to retract his anti-Catholic views, exclaiming, “Look Fathers, if I should assent to all you say and sign all you want me to, just to please you, neither believing nor feeling, I would be a hypocrite and would then be offending God”

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[Last 25 hours] At 12 noon, what happened to Rizal?

Left alone in his cell

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[Last 25 hours] At 12 noon, he was left alone in his cell. What were the things his did?

had his lunch
read the Bible
meditated

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[Last 25 hours] About 12 noon, _____ reported to the Archbishop that only little hope remained that Rizal would retract

Balaguer

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[Last 25 hours] Refusing to receive visitors for the meantime (around 12 noon), what where the two things he wrote?

probably finished his last poem
also wrote to Bluemtritt

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[Last 25 hours] In his letter to Blumentritt, what did he call the Austrian scholar?

“My best, my dearest friend”

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[Last 25 hours] At about 2PM, he had a talk with priests ________ and ________

Estanislao March
Vilaclara

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[Last 25 hours] At about 3:30 pm, ____ returned to Rizal’s cell and allegedly discussed Rizal’s retraction

Balaguer

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[Last 25 hours] After Balaguer’s visit at 3:30 PM, what did Rizal do?

Wrote letters and dedications, and rested for a short time

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[Last 25 hours] At 4pm, who visited Rizal?

Doña Teodora and his sisters

[Last 25 hours] What was the thing that the guards did not allow Doña Teodora to do?

A last embrace with her son

[Last 25 hours] Doña Teodora was not given the chance to give her son a last embrace. In quiet grief, what did Rizal do?

* managed to kiss on her hand

[Last 25 hours] _____ was said to have been moved with compassion at the sight of Rizal kneeling before his mother and asking forgiveness

Dominguez

[Last 25 hours] As his mom and sisters were leaving Rizal handed over to Trinidad a what?

Alcohol cooking stove

[Last 25 hours] Where did the alcohol cooking stove that Rizal gave to Trinidad from?

A gist from the Pardo de Taveras

[Last 25 hours] What did Rizal say to Trinidad as he gave the alcohol cooking stove?

"*There is something in it"*

[Last 25 hours] What was the "something" that Rizal had put in the alcohol cooking stove that he gave to Trinidad?

His elegy now known as *Mi Ultimo Adios*

[Last 25 hours] At 5:30 PM, the Dean of the Manila Cathedral, ______, came to exchange some views with Rizal

Don Silvino Lopez Tuñon

[Last 25 hours] As Balaguer and March left (at around 5:30), who was left in Rizal's cell?

* Vilaclara * Tuñon

[Last 25 hours] As Rosell was leaving at about 6pm, ______ arrived in Fort Santiago. Rizal called for her, and they emotionally talked to each other

Josephine Bracken

[Last 25 hours] At 7pm, ____ returned and convinced Rizal to trust him and other Ateneo professors. After some quiet moments, Rizal purportedly confessed to him

Faura

[Last 25 hours] Rizal then took his last supper at about _____ PM, and attended his personal needs

[Last 25 hours] After his last supper, what did Rizal told Dominguez?

That he had forgiven his enemies and the military judges who sentenced him to death

[Last 25 hours] At about 9pm or 9:30 pm, Manila's Royal Audiencia Fiscal _________ came and had an amiable talk with Rizal

Don Gaspar Cestaño

[Last 25 hours] Two historians that allegedly visited Rizal at 10pm

Gregorio and Sonia Zaide

[Last 25 hours] Rizal had some Catholic priests worked on his ______

retraction

[Last 25 hours] Supposedly, Balaguer brought to Rizal a retraction draft made by _________

Archbishop Bernardino Nozeleda

[Last 25 hours] Why did Rizal not like the retraction draft made by Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda?

It was too long

[Last 25 hours] As the retraction made by the Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda was too long, a shorter retraction which Rizal allegedly liked was made by who?

Jesuit Pio Pi

[Last 25 hours] Rizal wrote his retraction which renounced his ________ and _______ ideas

freemasonry, and anti-Catholic

[Last 25 hours] Zaides' book nonetheless admitted that the supposed retraction is now a **very** controversial document. Why?

For many reasons, Rizal's assumed retraction and his supposed church marriage with Bracken would have been considered highly dubious by many Rizal scholars

[Last 25 hours] Rizal then spent the night resting until the crack of dawn on December 30, perhaps ______ and ____ once in a while

praying, meditating

[Last 25 hours] The Zaides alleged that at Dec 30 at 3am, Rizal did these things (3)

* heard Mass * confessed sins * took communion

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] At about 4am, Rizal picked up the book _________ by Thomas a Kempis, read, and meditated

*Imitation of Christ*

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] At about _____ , Rizal washed up, attended his personal needs, read the Bible, and contemplated

5am

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was his (last) breakfast

He was given 3 boiled eggs

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] According to Rizal's grandniece, Asuncion Lopez-Rizal Bantug mentioned "three soft-boiled eggs" and narrated that Rizal ate ___ of them

two

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Historian Ambeth R. Ocampo, on the other hand, wrote "three hard-boiled eggs" and narrated that Rizal "________"

did not have any breakfast

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Why was Rizal given boiled eggs as a last meal?

"*This is for the rats, let them celebrate likewise!*"

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] After breakfast, Rizal wrote two letters. Who did he address them to?

* one addressed to his family * another to Paciano

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was the content of Rizal's last letter to his family?

Asking for forgiveness for the pain he caused them, hoping that with his death, they will be left in peace

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] In his last letter to his sisters, what did he say?

Asked them to forgive each other, treat their parents as they would like to be treated by their children, and love them very much in his memory

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was the content of Rizal's last letter to Paciano?

Told him how he was thinking of how Paciano worked hard to give him a career, acknowledged how Paciano must've suffered on his account, and said sorry

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] According to some accounts, who was not allowed to see Rizal before his execution?

Josephine Bracken

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] According to Zaides, who came with Bracken to visit Rizal at 5:30 am?

Josefa

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] After one last embrace, what book did Rizal gave to Josephine?

*Imitation of Christ*

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was the dedication that Rizal wrote to Josephine upon giving her a book?

"*To my dear and unhappy wife, Josephine/ December 30, 1896/ Jose Rizal*"

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Before his death march to Bagumbayan, he managed to pen his last letters to his beloved parents. What did he write to his father?

"*Pardon me for the pain which I repay you... Goodbye, Father, goodbye...*"

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Before his death march to Bagumbayan, he managed to pen his last letters to his beloved parents. To his mother, he was unable to finish the letter. What did he manage to write?

*To my very dear Mother, Sra. Dña Teodora Alonso 6 o'clock in the morning, December 30, 1896 Jose Rizal*

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] At 6:30 AM, what did Rizal wore in his slow walk to Bagumbayan

Black suit, black bowler hat, and he was tied elbow to elbow

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] On his slow walk to death to Bagumbayan, who were the three people that walked alongside him?

* Lt. Andrade * two Jesuit priests, March and Vilaclara

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] In front of Rizal and his 3 companions in his slow walk to Bagumabayan, who were in front of them? Behind them?

* Front: advance guard of armed soldiers * behind: another group of military men

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What sound signaled the start of the death march?

Trumpet

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What sound served as the musical score of Rizal's slow walk?

muffled sound of drum

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Early in that morning, plenty of people had eagerly lined the streets. Some were sympathetic to him, others wanted nothing less than to see him die. Who were those individuals?

Spaniards

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] On his slow walk, Rizal was observed to kept keenly looking around and it was believed that _____ or ____ would make a last-minute effort to spring him from the trap

His family, or the katipuneros

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Once in a while in his slow walk, Rizal conversed with the priest. What did he say?

Talked about his happy years in Ateneo as they passed by Intramuros. He commented on the clear morning and mentioned walking on days like this with his sweetheart (Leonor Rivera)

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] After they arrived at the historic venue of the execution, ______ were deliberately chosen to compose the firing squad. Behind them stood their Spanish counterparts, ready to execute them also should they decline to do their job

Filipino soldiers

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What caused the glitch/delay in the proceeding or Rizal's execution?

Rizal refused to kneel and declined the traditional blindfold

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Maintaining that he was not a traitor to his country to Spain, what did Rizal requested to the firing squad?

To face the firing squad for his execution

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] After some swee-talk, Rizal finally agreed to turn his back to the firing squad on what condition?

He would be shot not in the head, but in the small of the back instead

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] With the agreement of turning his back to the firing squad in exchange of being shot in the small of his back, what did Rizal do?

Shook the hand of his defense lawyer, Lt. Andrade

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] A military physician then asked for permission to ______ of the man who only had a few minutes to live

feel the pulse

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What did the military physician found out upon checking Rizal's pulse?

It was normal

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Before leaving his appointed place to be executed, the priests offered him a ____ to kiss but he turned his head away and silently prepared for his death"

crucifix

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] When the command had been given, the executioners' long guns barked at once. Rizal yelled Christ's two last words "_______" as he simultaneously exerted a final effort to twist his bullet-pierced body halfway around

*Consummatum est!*

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was the English translation of Rizal's last word?

*It is finished!*

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] What was the final effort made by Rizal as he was shot?

He twisted his bullet-pierced body (now known as Rizal Twist)

[Last 25 hours, Dec 30] Facing the sky, Jose Rizal fell on the ground dead at exactly _____ (time) in the morning of ____ (date)

* 7:03 * December 30, 1896