Mangaldan

Mangaldan, formally the Municipality of Mangaldan, is a 1st elegance municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a populace of 106,331 people. Mangaldan owns the distinction as the third metropolis in Pangasinan to be founded by way of the Dominican missionaries. As early as 1591, Mangaldan already existed as a Spanish encomienda.

Its foundation as a town is attributed to Blessed Juan Martinez de Santo Domingo, a former missionary of Pangasinan who died a martry's death in Japan on 19 March 1618. Mangaldan started as a visita of Calasiao and it remained as such until the Dominicans created it as an unbiased vicariate underneath the patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas on 2 June 1600. It is stated that of all of the human beings of Pangasinan, the Mangaldanian have been the most tough to convert. The finest enemy of the missionaries in the metropolis turned into a positive guy named Casipit who attempted to pressure them out of the city and even attempted to kill some of them. Yet, while he changed into transformed by the first apostle, Fr.