…You Think Epifanio de los Santos is a Highway October 24, 2006
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Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) is Metro Manila’s main highway, stretching from the Mall of Asia in Pasay City to Monumento Rotonda in Caloocan City. Edsa is also popular for being the stage for two nonviolent revolutions and ousting two Philippine presidents.
Of course everyone knows that Epifanio de los Santos is probably an important historical figure, why else would Metro Manila’s main highway be named after him? Few, however, knows why he became part of Philippines’ history.
Epifanio de los Santos is a Filipino historian. He was born on April 7, 1871, in Malabon, Rizal, the only son of Escolastico de los Santos and Antonia Cristobal. He was the first Filipino member of the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid.
During the Philippine revolution, he and Jose Clemente Zulueta published the news paper libertad in Malabon. He then later became an associate editor of La Independencia, the first revolutionary periodical.
On May 16, 1925, he was appointed as a director of Philippine Library and Museum by Governor Leonard Wood. He also published several books (Tagalog Literature, Confidencial letter of Dr. Jose Rizal, The Tagalog Theater, Musical folklores of the Philippines, Criminality in the Philippines (1903-1908), Fraudes Electrorales Y Sus Remedios) and wrote the biographies of Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Andress bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, and Ignacio Villamor.
