Answer:
Rizal dedicated the new book to the three priests, Gomez, Burgos and Zamora, who were executed because of their supposed participation in the first revolutionary campaign of modern Philippine nationalism, the mutiny of Cavite. The trial of the three priests was nothing more than a contrived show, like the trial of Rizal later. In accordance with the method, tested and tried, prominent leaders were removed by making them responsible for actions which they not only did not commit but to which they have always objected. Rizal derives the reason to dedicate the work to them from the fact that the Church did not excommunicate the three priests and that there were serious mistakes in the surreptitious trial which irresponsibly led to his death sentence, and as victims of such circumstances, to the opposition which involved his lifetime work.
