page_title: Epifanio de los Santos
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Epifanio de los Santos / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: [1] City of Cabanatuan (Filipino: Lungsod ng Kabanatuan) is a highly urbanized city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
context_page_description: Epifanio de los Santos y Cristóbal, sometimes known as Don Pañong or Don Panyong was a noted Filipino historian, journalist, and civil servant. He was appointed Director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.
context_section_description: He died in office on April 18, 1928. The Philippine government paid him a tribute to a stately funeral. Local and foreign scholars lamented to a loss to what has been described by them as "Great among the Great Filipino Scholars."
  Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (commonly known as EDSA), the main road through Metro Manila, was named after him. Several schools, streets, a college, a hospital, a printing press and an auditorium in National Library of the Philippines was also named in his honor.
caption: Epifanio de los Santos y Cristóbal bust, memorial, Caalibangbangan Park, Cabanatuan City.
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