Such connotation evolved because of the fact that in going to this place, one has to take the road, which branches out from the National Highway, the road that passes through all the towns in Partido Area, at the Municipality of Tigaon. Founded in 1684, Sagñay was the first Mission Port in Mt. Isarog to receive a new faith and a new Code of Morality, from the Spanish Missionaries. In that same yea
r, a church made of bamboo and nipa was constructed until the year 1690, when under the direction of the Parish Priest, Fr. Pedro Perona, a wooden church was built under the Patronage of the St. Andrew the Apostle, thus making November 30 as its town fiesta. The foundation of this town as Mission Port was 17 years before the Missions in Mongering, Goa (Salog) and Tigaon (Sta Clara) in the year 170-1 by Fr. In the year 1685 to 1687, Fr. Serafin Terren, built a new rectory, which was destroyed by a typhoon. Frutos Garcia, built church of stone and wood where the foundation of which still stand today to testify to the dedicated efforts of the First Spanish Missionaries. The secular clergy played the most part in the making of the present church endure through the centuries, thus making the church a perfect monument of a rich cultural past. Mariano Calvo finished its walls and floor of nipa. Lope Delgado who covered it with galvanized iron in 1888. On the other hand, the unification of scattered small barangay settlements under the rule of a central administrative missionary’s view of the limited number of Spanish civilians who came to the Philippines. Such measure, after all, was designed to facilitate colonization of the early inhabitants; the missionaries still did such to improve the economic condition of the ancient settlers. The pristine settlement of Sagñay as described by Fr. Felix Huertas was lavishly sprawling of green vegetation and planted with diversified crop varieties including rice corn, abaca and fruit trees. As is true with other Bicol towns, the history of civilization in Sagñay is commonly thought as having begun with small groups of families or clan bonded together for mutual help and survival. The early inhabitants engaged in commercial trade with people sailing in small bancas across the seawaters from the province of Albay. Even at its primitive stage, some form of economic system in Sagñay was already evidently at work. Likewise, Pastoral councils were organized not only to keep the parishioners informed of the different activities of the church but to make them aware of their duties and responsibilities as Christians and members of the Parish as well. Their involvement in the activities and projects of the church but to make them aware of their duties and responsibilities as Christians and members of the Parish as well. Their involvement in the activities and projects of the church today testifies that the Parish of St. Andrew has gone and matured from humble beginnings as a Missionary Port in 1684 to a renewed Pastoral church in Caceres 400 years as Parish Church Diocese. The Parish of St. Andrew has gone over long period of history in its 315th year of existence. The Parish remained a bastion of faith with the light of Christ forever shining through the ages and patronage of St. Andrew the Apostle an assurance of unity and piece in the beloved people of Sagñay.
