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Starring Dante Rivero , Cedrick Juan , and Enchong Dee , it features and follows the lives of the Gomburza , three native Filipino Roman Catholic priests executed during the latter years of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines. During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines , secular priest Pedro Pelaez retells the story of Apolinario de la Cruz , a native who got executed by the Spaniards for founding a sect due to him being rejected for priesthood because of his race, to his student, Jose Burgos, and fellow secular priest Mariano Gomez.

The trio fights the attempts by the friars from the religious orders led by Fr. Mosqueda to take over parishes administered by predominantly Filipino secular priests. Pelaez later dies in the Manila earthquake , while Burgos finishes his studies for the priesthood. In , Burgos is a teacher at the University of Santo Tomas and develops a close relationship with his students, Felipe Buencamino and Paciano Mercado.

They rejoice at the arrival of the liberal Governor-General, Carlos Maria de la Torre , and Felipe and Paciano form a student association. However, they are disillusioned when Felipe is arrested and Dela Torre tells Burgos to tone down his liberal advocacies in exchange for Buencamino's freedom. In , De la Torre is replaced by the repressive Rafael Izquierdo , who asks the friars about Burgos' activities.

He also lifts tax exemptions for native soldiers at Fort San Felipe , prompting a failed mutiny the following year by Sergeant Fernando La Madrid, who had been paid to launch the rebellion by a group of radicalized Filipino elites through their intermediary, Francisco Zaldua. Gomez, Burgos and another priest, Jacinto Zamora , are arrested for their alleged involvement in the mutiny and are subjected to a hurried court-martial during which they are subjected to numerous judicial injustices.

In contrast, the real instigators of the mutiny excluding Zaldua are sentenced to exile. During the trial, Zamora suffers a nervous breakdown after a written invitation he made to a card game is misconstrued to be a letter about an arms delivery, while Gomez and Burgos denounce the trial as a sham as Zaldua, bearing signs of torture, falsely implicates Burgos in the mutiny.

The three priests, along with Zaldua, are convicted and sentenced to death by garrote. After witnessing the course of the trial, Fr.