She runs home to be arrested and Crispin nowhere to be found. Sisa, not knowing this, goes to church to get him only to find out that he is gone. Basilio escapes from the church and runs away. Basilio was locked up in the church by the Sacristan-Mayor for his “crimes”. On the other hand, a whole other story was taking place the story of Sisa, Basilio and Crispin.

But only to add insult to the injury, Ibarra finds out the corpse was thrown in to the lake because there was a storm on the supposed day of transfer. Who could this friar be? Yes, you‟ve got it right, Padre Damaso. He talks to a gravedigger to find out that a fat friar asked that the body be transferred to a Chinese cemetery. And to Ibarra‟s shock, the place where his father‟s body should be seems to have been recently dug up. In the following days, Ibarra talks to his sweetheart Maria Clara–daughter of Capitan Tiago, and tries to visit his father‟s grave. Ibarra, instead of retorting, excuses himself and says that he has business matters to attend to. Padre Damaso, being an adversary of Don Ibarra, starts to both indirectly and directly insult Crisostomo. He is the son of the late Don Rafael Ibarra, whose death is later revealed to be because of him protecting a young Filipino boy from a Spanish tax collector. He is Crisostomo Ibarra, a rich young man who has just returned from Europe after 7 years of studying there. A few moments later, the story‟s protagonist makes his first appearance. Here we find Padre Damaso speaking ill-y of Filipinos.

Jose Rizal, starts off at the house of the wealthy man Capitan Tiago.

El filibusterismo summary tagalog