Queen Mhaiel Escal

BSA 1.1 A

READING IN PHIL HIS

03 Readings: The Site of the First Mass.

1st learning resources:
Amazing Butuan Summary

In March 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan "rediscovered" an archipelago,

making history in the process. There will be a debate about whether the First Mass in the
Philippines was celebrated in Mazzua or Masao in Butuan or on Limasawa Island in southern
Leyte. The controversy makes a mockery of Philippine history, which was celebrated by
Limasawa and Masao in their respective locations on the anniversary of the First Mass that was
officially recorded. In an effort to resolve the First Mass question, history specialists have been
contacted to weigh in. It reached a turning point when the National Historical Institute
determined in a judgment rendered a few years ago that the First Mass in the Philippines was
commemorated at Limasawa. Republic Act 2733, AN ACT TO DECLARE THE SITE IN
MAGALLANES, LIMASAWA ISLAND IN THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE, WHERE THE FIRST MASS IN
THE PHILIPPINES WAS HELD AS A NATIONAL SHRINE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS AND LANDMARKS a mistake committed by the government.

2nd learning resources:

Pigafetta, A. (1522).
Five ships set off from Seville on August 10, 1519, on what would eventually become the first earth-
circumnavigation. Much of the trip is known because to the travelogue of Antonio Pigafetta, one of the few
crew members who made it back to Spain and is famously associated with the name of its captain,
Magellan. An Italian scholar and explorer by the name of Antonio Pigafetta. He joined Ferdinand
Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands under the patronage of Emperor Charles V, as well as his
subsequent trip around the globe after Magellan's passing in the Philippine Islands. He assisted Magellan
on the trip and kept an accurate notebook, which helped him later when he was translating the Cebuano
languages. Out of the about 240 men that started out three years earlier, Pigafetta was one of the
18 men who made the entire journey, arriving in Spain in 1522 under the command of Juan
Sebastián Elcano. These men finished the first voyage around the globe. In the first year, other
people rebelled and came back. The majority of information concerning the journey of Magellan
and Elcano comes from the journal of Pigafetta that has survived. In 1931, the Italian Navy
named a destroyer of the Navigatori class after him as at least one of its warships. On March
31, 1521, Limasawa, Philippines, held the country's first known mass. Fr. performed the
ceremony. Chaplain of the Magellan-Elcano expedition Pedro de Valderama Easter Sunday fell
on that day in the Roman Catholic calendar.