PLOT (not synospsis);
During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, secular priest Father Pedro Pelaez retells the story of Apolinario de la Cruz, a native who was rejected for priesthood because his race and founded a sect of his own before being suppressed and executed by the Spaniards, to his student, Jose Burgos, and fellow secular priest Mariano Gomez. The trio fights attempts by the friars from the religious orders led by Padre Mosqueda to take over parishes administered by predominantly Filipino secular priests. Pelaez later dies in the 1863 Manila earthquake, while Burgos finishes his studies for the priesthood.
In 1869, Burgos is a teacher at the University of Santo Tomas and develops a close relationship with his...