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About our town
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The first Spaniards to reach Parpaguha during the later half of the nineteenth century was Don Jose de Tiran, the military commander of Romblon who set out an inspection trip of the surrounding village. On reaching the place he was so tired and thirsty, shouting for water to drink, he ordered a guardia civil to fetch a glass of water from nearby well. The water turned out to be somewhat salty and the Spaniard yelled, “Salado” issuing an official order to that effect. Sometime in 1882, a prominent
resident of Salado named Rufino Leaño who was later to become the organizer and the first priest of the Philippine Independent Church in the locality was unjustly accused of the crime by an influential Spaniard, Don Barcelo. Don Barcelo succeeded in having Leaño imprisoned. With the type of justice in those days of Spanish administration, the helpless Leaño was jailed without trial in the provincial jail of Capiz to which Romblon then belonged as sub-province.
A couple of years later, as Providence would have it, the Spanish Governor General Eulogio Despujol visited Capiz and asking the opportunity to appeal his case, Leaño sought and audience with the official. Governor Despujol found Leaño innocent and set him free. The latter, in gratitude to his saviour gave him back his liberty. On reaching back, his hometown petitioned the Provincial Governor to change the name of Salado to “Despujols” in honour of the Governor General. The petition was granted and for the second time the town had a new name.
The third change of name during the late years of President Carlos P. Romulo’s administration. Upon request of the residents of Despujols for the reason that their town’s name was sadly reminiscent of Spanish tyranny in the Philippines, Despujols was changed to San Andres. The new name is in veneration of the town’s patron Saint Andrew the Patron fisherman, and most of the people of San Andres even today, are fishermen by occupation.
The name changing was officialized in an executive order of former President Carlos P. Garcia, under the Republic Act 3358, AN ACT CHANGING THE NAME OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF DESPUJOLS, PROVINCE OF ROMBLON TO SAN ANDRES. Enacted June 18, 1961.
