DO YOU KNOW THAT…
- The early barangay settlement in Bugasong was located between the Paliwan River and Lumanggab Brook which is now Jinalinan.
- 1779, while Bugasong had its own parish priest it was under the jurisdiction of a “Pueblo Civil” called Santiago or Pangalcagan.
- Pangalcagan never became a parish because of the misery of the Pangalcagueños who did not have enough food to eat. That because of the fact that Pangalcagan as a “Pueblo Civil” could not exist independently as a town.
- The Roman Catholic Church first built on the beach of the now Barangay Jinalinan, with San Juan De Sahagun as the patron.
- The mountain dwellers of Bugasong hated very much the Augustinian friars who tolerated the collection of tributes and that they went to the extent of killing Fathers Felix Rioja Zuñiga and Francisco Censano, that these incidents happened in Carit-an and Valderrama which at that time belonged to Bugasong.
- Bugasong, like some of the coastal towns of Antique and Iloilo, which was also the victim of the Moro piracy, and that to protect the town, Fr. P. Agustin Lorenzo, the Augustinian parish priest trained all the able-bodied-men to arm themselves and fight against the Moro pirates who intermittently plundered the town.
- In 1774, Bugasong was made a province with cagayancillo under its jurisdiction.
- Bugasong was formerly the capital or “cabecera” of Antique in 1778.
- The Municipality of Bugasong lies of 125 degrees 45 MM. 12 Sec. East Longitude of the Meridian. The first Roman Catholic Church was constructed in 1726 by Friar Felix Rioja who was the first parish priest of Bugasong.
- The official name of the town of Bugasong was first recognized in the year 1726.