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=== The Murder of Fr. Moises Santos, OSA === | === The Murder of Fr. Moises Santos, OSA === | ||
The last and probably the most hated friar parish priest of Malolos, Fr. Moises Santos OSA earned the ire of Malolenos during his time in the parish from 1895 up to his murder in 1898. His tenure at Malolos was marked by conflicts with the native leaders, his actions towards them were punitive, and as he sowed hatred he reaped a violent and untimely death at the hands of assassins whom authorities would point their suspicion towards the revolutionary leader Isidoro Torres. | |||
[[File:Barasoain y Malolos Train Station, Bulacan Province, Philippines.jpg|500px|thumb|The parish priest was killed while on his way to the Barasoain and Malolos train station]] | [[File:Barasoain y Malolos Train Station, Bulacan Province, Philippines.jpg|500px|thumb|The parish priest was killed while on his way to the Barasoain and Malolos train station]] | ||
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==== A tale of murder, or an exaction of justice ==== | ==== A tale of murder, or an exaction of justice ==== | ||
Fr. Moises Santos was | Fr. Moises Santos was assassinated. An account of the event was narrated in the newspaper, Espana (1898): | ||
<small>''On the evening of March 31 last, at a time when Father Moisés, confident and defenseless, headed towards the Barasoain railway station to bid farewell to other priests who were trying to see him off, as he had been appointed to a position in Manila, three heartless individuals encountered him in a wooded area of the road and inflicted eight tremendous stab wounds on him. He succumbed to his injuries an hour later. As for the assassins, they remain a mystery until now. What is not a mystery to anyone is that when immediately sought in Malolos and Barasoain, Torres and the deportees, it happened that none of them were found in the town.''</small> | <small>''On the evening of March 31 last, at a time when Father Moisés, confident and defenseless, headed towards the Barasoain railway station to bid farewell to other priests who were trying to see him off, as he had been appointed to a position in Manila, three heartless individuals encountered him in a wooded area of the road and inflicted eight tremendous stab wounds on him. He succumbed to his injuries an hour later. As for the assassins, they remain a mystery until now. What is not a mystery to anyone is that when immediately sought in Malolos and Barasoain, Torres and the deportees, it happened that none of them were found in the town.''</small> | ||