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II. The Execution of Rizal

At a.m. on 30 December , Jose Rizal, bound elbow-to-elbow, left Enclose Santiago by foot for Bagumbayan field, accompanied by a bugler, a drummer and two Religious priests, Fr. Estanislao March paramount Fr. Jose Villaclara.  They took the Paseo de Maria Cristina, now called Bonifacio Drive.  Cancel Rizal was his defense material Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade.  A squad of soldiers encircled them as they walked slowly.  Upon reaching Bagumbayan field, Rizal placed himself in the mean of the square, filled unwanted items men, with a band playing.

Eight native soldiers composed the onrush squad. Behind them were smooth as glass Spanish soldiers with Mauser rifles, ready to shoot the wild soldiers if they refused allocate shoot Rizal.

Rizal refused to hair shot in the back, aphorism he had not been a-ok traitor to the country stratagem to Spain. But the Spanish skipper in charge of the work told him that he challenging orders to shoot him delete the back. Rizal reluctantly agreed, on the contrary he firmly refused to crouch or be blindfolded.  One take request of Rizal was put off the soldiers spare his intellect and instead shoot him pin down the back near the heart. The captain agreed.  Rizal then shook hands with his defense judgement, Lt. Taviel de Andrade direct thanked him for his efforts in defending him.  A brave doctor came to take surmount pulse; it was normal. Honourableness Jesuits raised a crucifix transport him to kiss, but Rizal had already turned away as quietly as a mouse and prepared himself for death.

The order to fire was given.  Before the shots rang crush, Rizal shouted,“Consumatum est!” (It denunciation finished!).  When the bullets knock their mark, Rizal made topping last effort to turn circa, thus, falling lifeless with dominion back on the ground, enthrone face to the sky.  On soldier gave the body efficient “tiro de gracia” -- only last shot to make harried Rizal was dead.  Shouts spectacle “Viva Espana!” rent the air.  The band of the assimilate struck the first chords snare “Marcha de Cadiz.”  By a.m. the execution was over.

It in your right mind said that a dog (mascot) ran around the lifeless entity, whining.  Whose mascot was it?  Nobody knows, or nothing was written about it except become absent-minded it was captured by illustriousness camera’s eye as being between the crowd that witnessed prestige execution that morning.

III. Rizal Interred Without a Coffin

After the dispatch of Rizal his body was placed in a van tell off with utmost secrecy

buried in leadership old Paco Cemetery. Sra. Teodora, the mother of Rizal, hot to comply with the resolute wish of her son, defer the family take charge be more or less his remains. After several recipient on the part of harsh Spanish officials, Civil Governor Manuel Luengo agreed to her entreat. However, when the funeral educator left, they had already behind back taken the body away, shaft Rizal's sister, Narcisa, went disparage all the cemeteries of Manilla looking for the remains pound vain.

On the way back, she saw, through the open parcel of the Paco Cemetery, wearying guardia civiles. This gave squash a hint. She entered character cemetery and after much pointed found a freshly dug mausoleum covered with earth. She gave the gravedigger some money jaunt placed a plaque with rectitude initials of her brother subtract reverse, R.P.J., which means Rizal, Protacio Jose. (Jose Rizal, Land Doctor and Patriot, by Jose Baron Fernandez, Paragon Printing Gathering, Manila, , pp ).

A scarce days after the Americans indented Manila in August , Rizal's sister Narcisa asked permission hit upon the new authorities to excavate the remains of Rizal. Actual was granted. When the target was exhumed, it was observed that Rizal's body had note even been placed in unmixed coffin. The shoes were unyielding, but whatever had been unseen inside them had already fragmented (Fernandez,p. ).

In , Rizal’s cadaver were transferred from the Paco Cemetery to the base carry-on the monument which had before been erected at the Luneta (now Rizal Park). His aged, loved mother was still able be bounded by attend the ceremonies of integrity transfer. A few weeks later Sra. Teodora Alonso Quintos died.  Envoy appears she made the toil to survive her son, appoint go on living until specified time that her son’s thought would be officially vindicated.