diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

observations on this point in Ante Radaic, Op. cit., 176-190; Antonio Abad,0. F. M., "El tema de Rizal, A Rizal Anthology (Manila, 1964) 253-286.59. Thus, for example, if San Diego is identified with Calamba, certainlyprobable but not free of ambiguity, Fray Coria would not correspond with thetheme of the novel, since the Franciscans never administered the town of theauthor of Noli me tangere. Much less is our doubt clarified by Fray Damaso'sstatement that he had "lived 23 years on banana and boiled rice," that is, ofstaying in the Philippines (Noli, 6), since Coria was 33 years in the colony.Nor does the place of his death, Tayabas, harmonize with his biography, forhe died in Spain.60. Coria, Memoria apologetica sobre la utilidady servicios prestadas aEspana por los religiosos misioneros de Filipinas redactada por un religiosofranciscano (Madrid, 1879) 54.61. Op. cit., 51.62. Op. cit., 39.63. Op. cit., 18. Italics mine.64. Op. cit., 18-19.65. Op. cit., 83.66. Noli me tangere, 337-338.67. EJR 11-2, 2, 602.68. Leandro Tonno Sanz, 1872 (Manila, 1983) 121.69. Leandro Tonno Sanz, "Bishop Volonteri," in this volume.70. Felix Huerta, 0. F. M., NecrologUi, II, 51: AFIO G/3.71. Thus, for example, a certain Fray Vicente Martinez, self-confessedand found guilty of homicide, was expelled from the Franciscan Order andcondemned to imprisonment with hard labor in May 1876; AFIO 286/86.72. I am unaware of any Franciscan who served in the archdiocese ofManila in the second half of the nineteenth century, and, consequently, of onewho could have forbidden any stage presentation. On the other hand, EugenioNetter, Capitular Vicar of the Archdiocese, did forbid the stage presentationof the comedy Les cloches de Corneville. Yet Rizal attributes these two actsto a Franciscan, Fray Salvi. Netter himself issued a Pastoral Letter of His294