Marriage of Rizal
If we talk of the issue of the
retraction letter, we cannot evade another issue about Rizal.
Did Rizal really married Josephine or did he not? I guess that even if Rizal married Josephine or not, he will still be shot to death and will then, after centuries, be commemorated by us. But how important is his
marriage? If Josephine and Rizal did marry, then we can say that the
retraction letter is genuine since the letter was especially made by Rizal for him to be able to marry Josephine. And I guess that it is clear that I believe that Rizal did retract, and I do believe that he married Josephine. I believe that Rizal’s signature was faked, not by the friars but by Josephine herself. I believe that Rizal’s plan is to make the retraction void by asking another person to plagiarize his signature so that it will be recognized as real strong evidence that he is not a man of his words. And in this manner, Rizal and Bracken, because of their thirst of marriage, fooled the priests in one way and another. In this case, Rizal was able to execute the plan that I am talking about, for him to get married and get past the issue of retraction. If the
Filipinos of that time knew about it, I guess his death will be of Bonifacio or of Antonio Luna. But the main contention here is that their marriage was not really proven because Josephine failed to present their certificate of marriage. Although these are just merely based on my own perspective and imagination, I’m looking at the possibilities that it must be something to look into.