DID YOU KNOW: Rizal’s remains exhumed from Paco Cemetery on Aug. 17, 1898

On Aug. 17, 1898, Jose Rizal’s remains were exhumed from Paco Cemetery and transferred to his family home in Binondo, Manila. On Dec. 26, 1896, a Spanish court martial found Rizal guilty of sedition and sentenced him to death. After his execution by musketry four days later, the body was first brought to San Juan de Dios Hospital before it was buried in Paco. On Dec. 30, 1912, a ceremony was held for Rizal’s reburial at the base of the monument built in his memory at Luneta Park. —Marielle Medina