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 During the town fiesta of 1895, paranoid he was, the ''cura parroco'' requested for additional ''guardia civil'' to Malolos, as he reported intelligence that there was a plot to attack the church and steal the ''santissimo'' which was made of gold and adorned with gems. The plot never happened. <ref>Bautista, A. (2000). Ang Malulos sa mga dahon ng kasaysayan. Philippines: Center for Bulacan Studies, Bulacan State University.</ref>
-These confrontations in the backdrop of a growing revolutionary spirit in Malolos may have brought the priest to that summer day of March 31, 1898, when he was killed in broad daylight by unknown assassins whose motives had most likely been driven by the collective ire of an oppressed townspeople.
+These confrontations in the backdrop of a growing revolutionary spirit in Malolos may have brought the priest to that summer day of March 31, 1898, when he was killed in broad daylight by unknown assassins whose motives had most likely been driven by the collective ire of oppressed and awakened townspeople fed up with the corrupt frailocracy.
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 The people of Catmon would remember the assassination as they reported in the Historical Data Paper of the 1950s the story of the priest's death. According to the retelling of the event, the parish priest was killed on the bridge of Catmon. "The persons who killed the priest, kissed the hands of the said priest before stabbing the said priest in the breast because it is their custom to kiss the hands of the priest whenever they met him."<ref>https://nlpdl.nlp.gov.ph/HD01/p10/m10/b10/1.pdf</ref>
+Dr. Pardo de Tavera in a commentary saw the fate of Padre Moises Santos in light of the waning of the power and influence of the friars in the face of liberal ideas spreading among the Filipinos during the last decade of the 19th century. Spanish sovereignty, according to him, fell with frailocracy as it cling to it. Dr. Pardo de Tavera retold the death of the last friar parish priest of Malolos:
+"Friar Moises Santos, the parish priest, was at last able to sleep in peace, after General Blanco had taken from him the residents who were sowing the bad seed, and sent them into exile on faraway islands; but one day, as he was going on foot to the railroad station in order to take the train to Manila, and was ascending a bridge near the station, three natives approach him respectfully. Supposing they came to kiss his hand, he gravely held it out to them. Then one of the natives caught it and, violently drawing the priest towards him, struck him with his right hand a terrible blow with a dagger in the breast.
+"In an instant, the three men had disappeared, and in the middle of the road, bathed in blood, there lay the body of the last friar parish priest of Malolos, dying unaided, in those last days of the Spanish rule, shortly before the declaration of war by the United States and the destruction of Montojo's fleet at Cavite."
 ==== The Murder of Fr. Moises Santos: Document Set ====