Manila, 10th January 1897.
"I Faustino Villaruel y Zapanta, 52 years of age, publicly declare
that as I was born so wish I to die--a Spaniard, a christian, a Roman
Apostolic Catholic; and that I detest with my whole soul any rebellion
or treason against our beloved mother Spain.
"I also repent of having belonged to masonry and of having devoted
myself to its propaganda in these islands and having been such a
bigoted mason that I caused my two children to enter also into the
society I now curse. I counsel my children and all my friends to
renounce the said society, and beg pardon of God, as I do now, it
being condemned by the Church.
"I beseech the most Excellent and Illustrious Archbishop to
make public this my spontaneous and free retraction.--Faustino
Villaruel. Witnesses:--the official guard of the Chapel, Antonio
Pardo.--the sergeant of the Guard, Felix Garcia."