RIZAL’s FIRST BURIAL SITE 

*Rizal family after his remains at the Paco Cemetery 

BEFORE AND AFTER 
Location: Paco Manila 
Wayback 1903

DID YOU KNOW?! 
*Rizal was detained in Fort Santiago before he was executed 
*The grabe of Dr. Jose Rizal in the Paco Cemetery surrounded by some of the people’s who helped him in his life: Don Benigno Santos, Rosenda Martinez, Cecilio Velarde, Ciriaco Trinidad (his sister), Doña Teodora Alonso (his mother), Remigio Garcia, Clemente de Jesus, Juan Eulogio, Romualdo de Jesus, Lorenzo Jurado, Anastacio Javier, Fructuoso Santos, Pascual Herrera and Marcelo Nepomuceno 
* Rizal was executed by a firing squad on December 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan, but he was only given a proper burial on Dec. 30, 1912 after the Spaniards were defeated and Americans took over the country 
*At first, his body was secretly buried at the Old Paco Cemetery 
*Rizal’s remains were exhumed, brought to his sister Narcisa’s house (Binondo, Manila) and placed in an ivory urn that stayed there until 1912
*In 1912, the government finally moved to put the urn at the base of the Rizal monument, Luneta (Rizal Park) manila, which would be mounted a year after