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But I heard a voice that somewhere I had heard before, though where I did not know, and this voice blessed those that railed and jeered and shamefully entreated. And suddenly the voice called 'Dimas, Dimas! and the thief upon whose hardened face I rested made answer.
The "elections" were held on December 9, 1898, and Dimas Guzman was chosen head of the province. He was the man subsequently sentenced to life-imprisonment by Blount, for complicity in the murder of Lieutenant Piera.
This form of torture is commonly referred to in the Philippines as the "water cure." Major Delfin commanded the expedition which took Nueva Vizcaya. Dimas Guzman. Blount, p. 112. Blount, p. 114. Blount, p. 113 Blount, p. 114. A distance of 120 miles. "The former Spanish Governor of the Province was of course a prisoner in Villa's custody.
Long years of sinful life had seared their marks into his face; yet now, at the sound of that familiar voice, somewhat of the old-time boyish look came back, and in the yearning of the anguished eyes I seemed to see the shepherd's son again. "'The Master! cried Dimas, and he stretched forth his neck that he might see him that spake.
Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. It is a chapel, now, however the Chapel of St. Helena. It is fifty-one feet long by forty-three wide. In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief.
"Two children came to the hillside. The one, older than his comrade, was Dimas, the son of Benoni. He was rugged and sinewy, and over his brown shoulders was flung a goat-skin; a leathern cap did not confine his long, dark curly hair.
The gulf of Hammamet terminates southwards in the promontory of Monastir, between which and Ras Dimas is a shallow bay looking to the north-east. Here was the Lesser Leptis, so called to distinguish it from the larger city of the same name between the Lesser and the Greater Syrtis; it was, however, a considerable town, as appears from its remains.
Blount says that General Otis's reports were full of inexcusable blunders about the Tagálogs taking possession of provinces and making the people do things, and cites the relations between Villa and Dimas Guzman to illustrate the error of these allegations.
"Belarmino," "Beda." Cardinal Bellarmin and Venerable Bede are too well known to require any observations. "Serpi, Fray Dimas," cut into two lines, with the names transposed, mean 'Fr. In Montalvan the marginal note gives, "Lib. de Purgatorio, cap. 26," as the reference. "Jacob Solino," the next authority for the legend, is perhaps the most perplexing in the list.
Thus he would say, "I know no one by that name," since care was always taken to employ the symbolic names in introductions and conversations. Rizal's own symbolic name was "Dimas Alang" Tagalog for "Noli Me Tangere" and his nom de plume in some of his controversial publications.
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