Answer to Question #343443 in History for Ading07

Question

1. Would not the retraction serve as a testimony of weakness and in effect neutralize all the transcendental and significant propaganda and patriotic work that he had done for the Philippines in the short span of his crowned life? Do you think Dr. Rizal weakened at the last moments of his life? How?

2. On the same field where Gomez, Burgos and Zamora had ignominiously perished by the garrote, and knowing that the next morning he would die, as he had anticipated all along, in Bagumbayan field, do you believe that he sign a retraction of his religious errors? Why?

3. With all his determination, after winning such explosive novels as Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, after exposing the immortal practices and questionable lives of free-thinker, what possible reasons Dr. Rizal turned about in the last twenty four hours of his life and become a Catholic?