BARRIO CONCEPCION.

I just want to share this brief historical note of

Barrio Conception, now one of the barangays that constitute the municipal
town of Paranas. Also very timely for the celebration of the feast of Our
Lady of Immaculate Conception, their barrio patroness.

According to Historical Data Papers researched and compiled by Public

School Teachers from 1952 to 1953, Conception was created a barrio of
Paranas in the year 1903. No one can tell what was the old name of the
barrio before it was named as Concepcion.

Two conflicting ideas which gives the etymology of the name of the barrio.

 According to legend and oral accounts from old folks of the barrio
there was fair maiden who lived in a small hut near the river and her
name was Concepcion. Everybody loved her dearly. One day, a
stranger passed by and the man fell in love with Concepcion and they
married each other after the consent of Conception parent’s. It
seemed that Conception doesn’t like the man, her husband’s change
and later she was abandoned. Thinking that her husband will never
return. Concepcion hanged herself in a tree near the river. The
people saw what happened to Concepcion. The barrio people
decided to name their barrio as Concepcion in memory of that lovely
and unexceptional young woman.
 Another account suggests that the name Concepcion was named
after the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in which their patron
saint. It was the priest Fr. Maximo Congzon who christened the barrio
on the feast of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

As of 1952, there were four sitios belonging to the barrio Concepcion

namely: Calagting, Pusungan, Catadlan and Catugpan. Prominent families
of the barrio were the Lasabias, Labongs, Oblinos, Robanillos, Campo
Mayors and Dabals. Mr. Marcelo Labong became the first Teniente-del-
Barrio of Concepcion. As of 2015, there were 571 people living in Barrio
Concepcion.