foundation celebration -- Rebaldo
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Preparations for this town’s second foundation day on November 3, 2006 is underway. The local government of Kalibo lead by Mayor Raymar Rebaldo vowed to make the celebration “more historical and remarkable” to Kalibonhons.
Rebaldo said the official declaration of Kalibo’s Foundation Day is a lasting legacy to the Kalibonhons and would promote the historical identity of this town as one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the country.
The declaration of November 3, 1571 as foundation day was part of the research output of Professor John Barrios of the Kalibo Council for Culture and the Arts (KCCA).
"The date November 3, 1571, as it appeared in the notarized Spanish document dated June 2, 1576, was the first written date relating to the Spanish colonial administration in Aclan/Calivo under the encomienda system instituted by the first Governor and Captain - General Miguel Lopez de Legazpi,” he said.
In his output research entitled “Calivo: Founding of a Town,” Barrios also spelled out that “although Juan Fernandez’ Monogratias de los Pueblos de la Isla Panay points to 1581 as foundation year of Kalibo, investigation would reveal that it was only the date of acceptance of the Agustinian fathers of the convent of Aclan and its respective visitas.”
“The research output of Barrios is as close to reality based on the chronology of events considering that the natives were christianized in 1569 and it is logical that three years later, in 1571, Kalibo was founded through an encomienda grant to Antonio Flores,” said Roman De la Cruz, a noted historian and artist.
Rebaldo said the official declaration of Kalibo’s Foundation Day is a lasting legacy to the Kalibonhons and would promote the historical identity of this town as one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the country.
The declaration of November 3, 1571 as foundation day was part of the research output of Professor John Barrios of the Kalibo Council for Culture and the Arts (KCCA).
"The date November 3, 1571, as it appeared in the notarized Spanish document dated June 2, 1576, was the first written date relating to the Spanish colonial administration in Aclan/Calivo under the encomienda system instituted by the first Governor and Captain - General Miguel Lopez de Legazpi,” he said.
In his output research entitled “Calivo: Founding of a Town,” Barrios also spelled out that “although Juan Fernandez’ Monogratias de los Pueblos de la Isla Panay points to 1581 as foundation year of Kalibo, investigation would reveal that it was only the date of acceptance of the Agustinian fathers of the convent of Aclan and its respective visitas.”
“The research output of Barrios is as close to reality based on the chronology of events considering that the natives were christianized in 1569 and it is logical that three years later, in 1571, Kalibo was founded through an encomienda grant to Antonio Flores,” said Roman De la Cruz, a noted historian and artist.
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