Rizal Retraction & Josephine Bracken and Rizal’s Marriage

Rizal was excommunicated by the Catholic Church when he joined the Masonry. Influenced by Miguel Morayta, a accounting professor at the Universidad de Madrid, Rizal joined Masonry, on a lower floor the Gran Oriente de Espanol, adopting the Masonic name, Dimasalang. He was automatic each(prenominal)y excommunicated, expelled from the Catholic Church, a fate restrain for all Catholics becoming Masons since 1738 and reaffirmed by the CBCP in 1990. Some argued that Dr. Rizal wrote those anti-catholic passages on his letters, numberss and novels during the quantifys when he was still excommunicated from his Catholic faith.So, he was in truth an enemy of the Catholic Church of that time. only prior to his execution by flaming squad, he wrote a retraction letter which in turn rejects all the things he wrote about the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic legend has it that as if fearing for his salvation, Rizal regained his faith on his last night thus track to his retraction saying I declare myself a Catholic I craving to live and die as a Catholic I retract with all my heart all that I begin said, written and done against the Church and our schoolmaster Jesus Christ. Josephine BRACKEN Being a mason, Rizal and Josephine could not get married. Josephine and Rizal reunited for the last time at the latters cadre in Fort Santiago on December 30, 1896. The couple were married in Catholic rites by Fr. Victor Balaguer both hours before Rizals execution at Bagumbayan. After his execution Josephine, accompanied by Paciano and Trinidad Rizal entered rebel territory in Cavite. They were legitimate by Andres Bonifacio who received from the Rizals a imitate of the heros last poem which would be known as the Mi Ultimo Adios.