Twenty-four years before that, on Feb. 17, 1872, Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora — otherwise known as Gomburza, the portmanteau of their surnames — were executed by the ...

I n the film “GomBurZa,” the recollect superior remarked they were used to frame the three priests. Like an oracle, he predicts that history will not be kind to the friar orders in this matter ...