Rizalista religious movements
[1] Many of these sects or religious movements believe that Rizal is still alive and that he will deliver his followers from oppression and poverty.Rizalist groups have differing views on the divinity of Jose Rizal.Some of these groups also identify Rizal as the god of the pre-Spanish Malay religion.[3] Leaders of the sect often claim that key people in the Philippine Revolution including Rizal himself were reincarnations of the Virgin Mary.[4] The Rizalist religious movement ranged from colorums which were prevalent during the 1920s up to the 1930s to Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, which was led by Ruben Ecleo.