I grew up believing that the word prayle was synonymous to evil. This can be traced from my history lessons that depicted the prayle being always on the bad side of things: abuses, rapes, frowning faces, etc. About a year or two ago, I found one of Ambeth Ocampo's article: The Spanish Friar Beyond the Propaganda (click there please ;).
This gives light on how the Propaganda was the main source of anything friar (popularly at least) we have. Although I have my students hear Padre Botod and Lopez-Jaena's piece about Botod, I give them this right after so as to shed light into the stereotypical image we have of prayles.
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