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Father Camorra
Father Salví is an elderly Spanish priest and prominent leader in the colonial power structure. An important figure in Ibarra’s demise, Salví’s suppressed guilt is painfully brought to the surface by Mister Leeds’s talking head, whose allegedly ancient-Egyptian story of priestly conspiracy and betrayal sends Salví into a panic. Salví is also deeply shaken by the message from Ibarra circulated at the wedding, which he recognizes as being written in Ibarra’s own handwriting.
Father Salví Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Father Salví or refer to Father Salví. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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18. Sleights
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“O,” it said, shaking disconsolately, “I loved a young woman, the daughter of a priest, pure as light, as a just-opened lotus flower. The young priest of Abydos coveted her as well and plotted a mutiny using my name and several papyruses I had dedicated to my beloved. The mutiny unfolded just as a furious Cambyses returned from the disasters of his unfortunate campaign. I was branded a rebel and imprisoned. When I was able to escape, during the pursuit I died in Lake Moeris. From eternity I watched as imposture triumphed, I saw as the priest of Abydos pursued the poor virgin day and night, even after she had taken refuge in a temple of Isis on the Island of Philoe. I saw him pursue her and hunt her down even into the caverns, drive her mad from terror and suffering, like a giant bat and a white dove.”
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35. The Party
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While these scenes unrolled in the street, in the dining room the greater gods handed around a piece of parchment on which the fateful words were written in red ink:
Mane Thecel Phares
Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra
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Father Salví Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Father Salví or refer to Father Salví. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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18. Sleights
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“O,” it said, shaking disconsolately, “I loved a young woman, the daughter of a priest, pure as light, as a just-opened lotus flower. The young priest of Abydos coveted her as well and plotted a mutiny using my name and several papyruses I had dedicated to my beloved. The mutiny unfolded just as a furious Cambyses returned from the disasters of his unfortunate campaign. I was branded a rebel and imprisoned. When I was able to escape, during the pursuit I died in Lake Moeris. From eternity I watched as imposture triumphed, I saw as the priest of Abydos pursued the poor virgin day and night, even after she had taken refuge in a temple of Isis on the Island of Philoe. I saw him pursue her and hunt her down even into the caverns, drive her mad from terror and suffering, like a giant bat and a white dove.”
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35. The Party
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While these scenes unrolled in the street, in the dining room the greater gods handed around a piece of parchment on which the fateful words were written in red ink:
Mane Thecel Phares
Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra
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