Pulilan

Pulilan lies in the river plains of Bulacan, north of Manila. It was once a community attached to Quingua, where Augustinian friars established a chapel under the patronage of Saint Isidore the Farmer in 1749. The settlement became a separate town in 1796, and permission to build a stone church followed in 1798. Its patron reflected the importance of agriculture in the surrounding lowlands, where rivers connect fields and settlements across the plain.