PADRE FAURA
 Federico Llastzer Manuel Faura y
Prat
 7 years after joining Jesuit
missionary, he came to Manila
and was assigned to teach Math
and physics in Ateneo University
 He was not a COLONIST
 His health was frail
 Forced to take vacations to
regain strength
 Became a director of an
observatory
 Learned a lot about weathers and
meteorology, astronomy
 Gain recognition for his
hardworks “Adopted Son of
Manila”
 Forced to go back in Spain due to
health conditions
 Came back to Manila to work
again
 Rizal countered that he had not
written for intellectuals, and he
had attacked the friars in the
Philippines who were using the
Church to cloak their abuses. And
in their discussion about many
beliefs of the Church, he could
not accept the Jesuit's
arguments, particularly about
purgatory. And Fr. Faura sadly
told him that since they no longer
believed the same things, there
was no longer any reason for
them to be in further contact.
 "I feel more enthused. I believe
what God is doing is good for me,
allowing me to return to the
Philippines to undo such
accusations. For either they will
do me justice and declare my
innocence and then I will rebuild
my life, or they condemn me to
death. Thus, I will expiate my
alleged crime in the eyes of
society. Later, it will pardon me
and doubtless they will do me
justice and I will be a martyr
besides. Anyway, I shall not die
in a foreign land, I shall die in my
country. I believe what is
happening to me is the best thing
that can occur to me. May God's
will be done."
 Witnesses the Execution of Rizal
 Visited Rizal in his cell at Fort
Santiago while awaiting execution
at Bagumbayan
 It was a painful visit, the Jesuit
with broken words, because tears
kept flowing down his cheeks.
"Do you remember what you told
me, Father, when we last saw
each other? You proved yourself
a prophet." Fr. Faura had to
leave, because he was choking
with emotion.
 January 23, 1897- death
 Faithfully served the country even
if it’s not his own