San Juan, formally the Municipality of San Juan (Ilocano: Ili ti San Juan; Filipino: Bayan ng San Juan), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of La Union, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a inhabitants of 40,507 individuals.
In 1582, San Juan was proclaimed a mission station below the authority of the Augustinian Order, as recorded by the Nueva Segovia Bi-centennial memento booklet dated April 25, 1587. By 1586 the city had turn into the heart of the parish and was renamed San Juan by the Augustinian Fathers after the Catholic Patron Saint of San Juan Bautista. The city boasted an Augustinian convent and a inhabitants of 6,000. Its first priest was Friar Agustin NiƱo.
The heart of the parish was subsequently transferred to Bauang, with San Juan typically being an out-station (visita) of Bauang and typically of Bacnotan. In 1707 the Church of St. John the Baptist was constructed at San Juan. In 1772, the mission station was positioned below the authority of the Dominican Order. In 1807, San Juan was established as a parish in its personal proper.
On March 2, 1850, San Juan grew to become half of the province of La Union, when the province was created by Governor-General Antonio Maria Blanco.
In 1898 throughout the latter days of the Philippine Revolution, the entire of San Juan was razed to the floor by an ideal hearth. With the demise of the church, convent, and rectory, the church registers had been destroyed, though subsequent registers from 1898 to 1917 do survive and have been microfilmed. Municipal beginning registers had been begun in 1922.
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