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He grew up wanting to be a physician, and with some difficulty in enrolling for medical studies, became an assistant at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Intramuros. He did not last long since he was beginning to find journalism more interesting. But his manuscript, reprinted, was quite widely read in the archipelago. It was a searing description of a friar who was quite fat botod , totally lascivious, sexually obsessed, and abusive.

He kept a group of girls he called kanding-kanding who would do whatever he pleases, and mostly in bed. During his afternoon siestas, the friar would have one girl looking for lice, another stroking his huge tummy, yet another whispering gossip in his ear. Despite all this, they would be whipped or assaulted if they ran afoul of his temper.

Later two older women, his official mistresses, would cater to his needs. Fray Botod ran roughshod over the town he governed. Jose Rizal opined that much as Fray Botod and other friars with similar characters were to blame, so too were the people and their ignorance, which engendered superstition and an irrational deference to friars. Graciano Lopez Jaena saw another dimension in this warped relationship between friars and citizens.

Driven by poverty, townspeople followed the dictates of the powerful and wealthy. They would obey even the most miserable and demeaning demands in order to survive, or gain some power under the friar's mantle. He went to Spain to become an exile. He would later return very briefly under another name the friars were after him.