Note 16 — Chapter XVI · “I CAME FROM MARTYRDOM UNTO THIS PEACE”
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Rizal stood with his eyes open and turned toward the sky. In his face, it is said, was neither ecstasy nor fear, but only the calm of a perfect resignation. Often he had said: “What is death to me? I have sown the seed; others are left to reap.”16 The testing of that word had come. It found him ready and undismayed.