| San Pascual Barangay San Pascual Barangay ng San Pascual |
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| — Barangay — | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Region | Central Visayas (Region VII) |
| Province | Bohol |
| City/Town | Ubay |
| Purok/Sitios | 7 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Barangay Council |
| • Punong Brgy. | |
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| Area | |
| • Land | 9.726977 km2 (3.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 3,088 |
| • Density | 317.36/km2 (822/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+8) |
| Postal Code | 6315 |
| Area code(s) | 38 |
| Philippine Standard Geographic Code | 071246040 |
| Website | [1] |
Barangay San Pascual is one of barangay constituting the municipality of Ubay, in the province of Bohol, Philippines.
The barangay's total land area is approximately 972.6977 hectares[2], with a population of 3,088[3]as of 2007. In the last 2010 National election, it has 1,743[4]registered voters.
San Pascual National Agricultural High School, the largest school in the municipality is located south of the barangay.
Barangay San Pascual celebrates its annual fiesta every last Saturday of April.
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Located on the southern part of the municipality, San Pascual is bounded Barangay Lomangog and Imelda to the north. To the south, it is bounded by Barangay Cambaol, part of Alicia town, to the east by Barangay Biabas and to the west by Bulilis and Gabi. San Pascual has approximate distance of 12 km from the town center, Poblacion.
Long time ago, many believed that San Pascual could help solve the animal plaque. So, they sent the saint in the barrio to be offered and prayed by the barrio folks that might help the control of the animals' plaque. Fortunately, the prayers were heard and the rest of the cattle from the ranch were saved. From that time on, the inhabitants in the barrio worship San Pascual.
Years lapse, it was a customary activity of the parochianos to return all the saints from the barrios to the town during fiesta celebration. San Pascual was the biggest among all saints of the church and it was quite heavy to carry. Transportation was rare at the time to transport the saint back and forth from the barrio to the tow. It happened that the errand boy felt lazy of his assigned task, so he picked up the small Saint from the altar of the church and bring it to the barrio, which is now the Saint Vincent Ferrer. The barrio people were astonished the next Sunday at the chapel after they have discovered that the saint on the altar was and small different from their usual devotion.
From that time, the Teniente del Barrio called a barrio assembly among all residents to verify their real Patron Saint. Soon, they have resolved this problem through conducting a raffle between the two saints. Whosoever wins the raffle shall be declared their permanent Patron Saint. By God’s will and to believe it or not, from the history of the past, Saint Vincent Ferrer came out the winner in three consecutive draws.
In 1990, a House Bill was passed to Congress, by then Congressman of the 2nd district of Bohol, David B. Tirol, creating San Pascual into a municipality but did not realized because it was vehemently opposed by incumbent Mayor Atty. Eliseo Casil Boyles for there was no consultation of the present administration. This was an act of gerrymandering to preserve the progress of the municipality in line with dreams and desire that someday Ubay will become the capital of the proposed creation of a province of the Eastern Bohol.[5]
People in the barangay are mostly farmers live by planting rice, corn, coconut, banana, vegetables, coffee, cacao, fruit trees, and root crops. Some have small lots of agricultural land.
There are seven puroks or units in the barangay manned by the elected kagawads including the Punong Barangay or Barangay chairman.
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| Lomangog | Bongbong | |||
| Gabi Bulilis |
Biabas | |||
| San Pascual | ||||
| Calfornia | Alicia, Ilihan | Mabini |
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