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Capitan Tiago (Capitan Santiago de los Santos)

Host of the party in Chapter 1

Calle Anloague

Street where Capitan Tiago's party is held; also where Ibarra and Maria Clara speak privately at the azotea

Padre Damaso

Arrogant, abusive, and hypocritical Franciscan friar

Padre Sibyla

Highly intelligent, rational, calm, and manipulative Dominican friar; parish priest of Binondo

Teniente Miguel Guevarra

Elderly Guardia Civil lieutenant and close friend of Don Rafael Ibarra

Señor Laruja

Red-haired Spaniard who attempts to humiliate Ibarra

Doña Victorina de Espadaña

Europeanized mestiza socialite; wife of Don Tiburcio and aunt of Paulita Gómez

Don Tiburcio de Espadaña

Fraudulent Spanish doctor with a stutter who later attends to Maria Clara

Crisostomo Ibarra y Magsalin

Main protagonist and son of Don Rafael Ibarra who returned after studying in Europe

tinola

Dish served during Capitan Tiago's dinner in Chapter 3

Plaza Binondo

Place where Ibarra is approached by Teniente Guevarra

El Correo Ultramar

Newspaper subscribed to by Don Rafael Ibarra

Teniente Guevarra

Reveals the fate of Don Rafael Ibarra in prison to Crisostomo

Fonda de Lala

Hotel where Ibarra stayed upon his return

Maria Clara

Arrives in Chapter 5 and is admired by all the guests

Chapter 6

Chapter dedicated to Capitan Tiago

Binondo, Pampanga, and Laguna

Places where Capitan Tiago owned lands

Doña Pia

Capitan Tiago's wife who was sexually coerced by Padre Damaso in Obando

Virgin of Salambao and Sta. Clara

Saints in Obando who inspired Maria Clara's name

7 years

Length of time Ibarra spent studying abroad

locket with leaves and dried flowers

Keepsake Maria Clara gave Ibarra before he left for Europe

letter and pressed flowers

Keepsake Ibarra gave Maria Clara before leaving for Europe

Puente de Barcas

Floating bridge connecting Intramuros and Binondo, destroyed through neglect

Arroceros Cigar Factory (Fabrica de Arroceros)

Landmark that reminded Ibarra of childhood and Madrid's Lavapiés

Botanical Garden (Jardín Botanico)

Colonial garden that inspired Ibarra's "demon of comparison"

Bagumbayan Field

Execution site reminding Ibarra of the deaths of the innocent priest and his father

Three conversations in Chapter 9

Padre Damaso and Capitan Tiago; Padre Sibyla and an unnamed priest; Governor-General and his men

Governor-General

Believes the Philippines' condition is poor but feels powerless to change it

Padre Sibyla

Warns of the dangerous implications of foreign education

Capitan Tiago extinguishes the candles

Stops the candles lit for Ibarra's journey after Padre Damaso opposes the marriage

San Diego

Ibarra's hometown by Laguna Lake, known for sugar, rice, coffee, and fruit

Padre Bernardo Salvi

Franciscan successor to Padre Damaso as parish priest of San Diego

Alferez (The Ensign)

Unnamed second lieutenant of the Guardia Civil; rival of Padre Salvi; symbolizes secular military authority

Doña Consolacion

Alferez's wife who abuses Sisa and imitates Spanish culture

Todos Los Santos (All Saints' Day)

Occasion during Chapter 12 at the San Diego Cemetery

Padre Garrote

Alternative name for Padre Damaso

Padre Damaso

Ordered Don Rafael Ibarra's body exhumed and transferred to the Chinese cemetery

Gravedigger

Dumped Don Rafael Ibarra's body into the river because of heavy rain

Golgotha

"Place of skulls"; heap of skulls and bones in the cemetery

pandakaki

Plant found in the San Diego Cemetery

Pilosopo Tasio (Don Anastasio)

Visits the cemetery searching for his wife's remains

Gravedigger

Reveals to Ibarra the desecration of Don Rafael's body

Padre Salvi

Mistaken by Ibarra for Padre Damaso and attacked at the cemetery gate

Pilosopo Tasio

Believes purgatory does not exist because neither Jesus nor the Bible mentions it

Pilosopo Tasio

Highly educated philosopher regarded as a madman because of his progressive ideas

priest

Career Tasio's mother wanted him to pursue

Don Filipo

Liberal vice mayor (teniente mayor) who invites Tasio to dinner

sacristans

Role of Crispin and Basilio in the church

Crispin

Seven-year-old sacristan accused of stealing two gold coins and beaten to death

7

Age of Crispin

Basilio

Ten-year-old older brother of Crispin who later becomes a medical student in El Filibusterismo

10

Age of Basilio

Sisa

Mother of Crispin and Basilio

duck thigh, pork tapa, tomatoes, and tuyo

Food Sisa prepared for her sons

3

Pieces of tuyo left by Sisa's husband

Basilio

Escapes after being wounded by a Guardia Civil gunshot

Sisa

Brings vegetables to the church seeking Crispin, who is declared missing

Schoolmaster

Teacher associated with Don Rafael who complains about church interference in education

Don Filipo

Proposed a conservative fiesta plan as a trick, but Padre Salvi's proposal prevailed

Sisa

Arrested to force her sons to surrender; eventually loses her sanity

Tiya Isabel

Maria Clara's guardian and Capitan Tiago's cousin

Padre Salvi

Priest who secretly lusts after Maria Clara

Sisa's husband

Stranger who asks Ibarra for help outside Maria Clara's house

The Sweetheart

Fleurdeliz Abela's symbolism for Maria Clara

The Flamboyant

Fleurdeliz Abela's symbolism for Doña Victorina

The Insane

Fleurdeliz Abela's symbolism for Sisa

Sinang, Iday, Victoria, and Neneng

Maria Clara's closest circle of friends

Andeng

Maria Clara's foster sister and caretaker

crocodile

Animal caught during the fishing outing

Ibarra

Kills the crocodile during the fishing trip

Elias

Fugitive who saves Ibarra after the crocodile incident and advocates violent revolution

Concordia

Elias' twin sister who was found dead near Laguna de Bay

Elias

Accused of attacking Padre Damaso and throwing the Alferez into the lake

hieroglyphs

Writing system Tasio uses so others cannot understand his ideas

yellow man (taong madilaw)

Laborer hired by Padre Salvi to kill Ibarra but killed by his own trap

Saint Francis School

School name proposed by Capitan Tiago

School of Primary Instruction

Official name of Ibarra's school

locket (reliquary, relicario)

Object Maria Clara gives to the leper

3 letters

Documents featured in Chapter 28

Capitan Martin and Luis Chiquito

Subjects of one of the three letters in Chapter 28

San Diego de Alcala, St. Francis, and the Virgin of Peace

Figures carried in the fiesta procession

Papa

What the baby calls Padre Salvi

250 pesos

Cost of the Mass celebrated by Padre Damaso

Padre Manuel Martin

Priest mocked by Padre Damaso during his sermon

Latin, Spanish, and Tagalog

Languages mixed by Padre Damaso during his sermon

Elias

Warns Ibarra after Mass that his life is in danger

panghugos

Massive pulley system for the inauguration of Ibarra's school

Don Saturnino

Ibarra's grandfather

Eibarramendia

Original family surname shortened by Don Saturnino

Nol Juan

Foreman overseeing construction of Ibarra's school

Capitana Maria

Progressive woman who openly defends Ibarra

Governor-General

Sides with Ibarra over the conflict with the friars

Virgin Mary

Figure Ibarra sees in the procession in Chapter 38

Doña Consolacion

Whips Sisa because of her insecurities and social frustrations

Lucas

Scarred man demanding compensation for his brother's death

Linares

Padre Damaso's distant Spanish relative intended to marry Maria Clara

godson of brother-in-law

Relationship of Linares to Padre Damaso

"Honour thy father and thy mother"

Fifth Commandment that causes Maria Clara to weep during confession

Tanauan, Batangas

Place where Elias meets the leader of the bandits

Capitan Pablo

Bandit leader in Tanauan, Batangas