diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

scandalizing him and Raimondi perhaps—had no other aim than to put an endto hunger, tend the sick, raise the children in a Christian way, educate theyoung, form native priests, build churches, hospitals, schools—the sametasks he himself was doing in China.Neither did Rizal know this. Like the Italian bishop, he was peering infrom the outside. He only saw the Dominicans in the Philippines were rich,had sufficient funds such as to need a carriage for transporting them toHongkong.'21 But they were administered badly, loaned at 12% interest rate.He and Volonteri could not have known how these amounts would be used,for the Dominicans never made them public. Had they known, perhapsVolonteri's remarks would not have impressed Rizal so much, nor confirmedthe latter's convictions. Rizal, unsure till then, could have had a betterunderstanding of the trial of Frs. Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora. Instead of theNoll me tangere, he could have written perhaps its opposite.44