diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

Rosarito is brought to thephychiatric hospital ofS. Braulio in Llobregat (Barcelona)D. Inocencio is transferred toRomeMaria Clara enters themonastery of Santa Clara inManila, where she will endher days madFray Salvi is transferred by hissuperiors to ManilaThe parallels in the two novels, not only in the plot, but also in theunfolding of the plot, as well as the characterization, are so numerous it ishard to deny dependence of Rizal's novel on that of Perez Galdoz. Still, itwould be interesting if someone more competent could undertake a deeperanalysis of the matter and its many other details to find out the commonelements in both, including this aspect.17. Jose Maria Basa (?). Escandaloso, horrendo y punible delitoperpetrado en el Monasterio de Santa Clara por un fraile franciscano,vicario de la misma. [No printer, no date.]Schumacher shows this leaflet, printed probably for propagandapurposes by Jose Maria Basa in Hongkong, or at least with his cooperation,was nothing else but another one of those denigrating pieces clandestinelydistributed in the Philippines by the propagandists in order to blacken thename of the regular clergy.'" This appears from its colophon: "Away withfriar mobs. Come, secular priests!" Rizal received a copy in the same year1884, but it is not clear whether before or after he had started writing the Noli.The leaflet pretends to tell the dramatic experience of Sister PepitaEstrada who, adamant against the pressures of the abbess of Santa Clara, hermonastery, to submit to the sexual whims of their chaplain, sought help fromoutside, shouting from the tile roof of the building. The incidents took place,according to the writer, "one day in 1883" ("the month of August," noted areader of the copy kept in the Archivo Franciscano Iberio-Oriental inMadrid). Informed, Rafael Jovellar went to the monastery and ordered itsdoor opened. After considerable difficulties, he found out it was more seriousthan anticipated, since infants had already been murdered inside.Nevertheless, the guilty had never been punished and so they demanded,among other things, the exile of the. Archbishop of Manila, the expulsion ofthe friars, and the esclaustration of the nuns of Santa Clara.We have here a case of one of the innumerable calumnies printed both inthe Philippines and in Spain by anticlerical elements without the least moralscruples and for merely propagandistic aims. All kinds of literary divices110