 So, people started calling the place “Bakladan”, corruption of the word made it into the word “BACLARAN”, hence its name came to be.Baclaran was established in 1971 in the then-Municipality, now City, of Parañaque.In 1973, the late former Cardinal Karol Joseph Wotyla then Pope John Pope II (now St. John Paul II) visited the Baclaran Redemptorist Church or Baclaran Church in Baclaran, Parañaque, as a part of his 1st visit to the Philippines since he was a cardinal then before he became a Pope 5 years later in 1978.