![• President Carlos P. Garcia did not sign the law [R.A. No. 2733].
• According to primary records, the expedition traveled 20 to 25 leagues from
Homonhon, the first landing point. If they had been to Limasawa Island, the
distance is only 14.6 leagues or one-half of that length.
• The relevance of the name Masao , to Pigafetta’s account , Mazaua.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/casestudy1-190812012235/85/Case-study-1-4-320.jpg)
![Limasawa, Southern Leyte Evidences
• Francisco Albo’s Log Book one of the pilot in the voyage of Magellan , who
is included in 18 survivors, writes on his book that they erected a cross on a
mountain that overlooks the island.
• On June 19, 1960, the Philippine Congress enacted a bill [R.A. No. 2733]
declaring Limasawa as the place where Magellan celebrated the first
recorded mass in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/casestudy1-190812012235/85/Case-study-1-5-320.jpg)
Case study 1
- 1. Case Study 1 : The Site of the First Catholic Mass in the Philippines: Limasawa, Southern Leyte or Masao,Butuan City ?
- 2. • Antonio Pigafetta - was an Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice. • He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan. • He served as Magellan's assistant and kept an accurate journal. • Pigafetta was one of the 18 men out of 240 who returned to Spain in 1522.
- 3. Masao, Butuan City Evidences • In 1872, a monument to commemorate the site of the first mass on the Philippines was erected in Butuan. • In 1953, the people in Butuan ask the Philippine Historical Committee to rehabilitate the monument or place a marker on the site. • Gregorio Zaide a Filipino historian, author and politician from the town of Pagsanjan, Laguna in the Philippines, claims the location of the first mass is in Butuan base on Pigafetta’s acccount. • American historian Emma Helen Blair and John Alexander Robertson claimed in 1909 that the island of Mazaua is the present island of Limawasa but did not give explanation.
- 4. • President Carlos P. Garcia did not sign the law [R.A. No. 2733]. • According to primary records, the expedition traveled 20 to 25 leagues from Homonhon, the first landing point. If they had been to Limasawa Island, the distance is only 14.6 leagues or one-half of that length. • The relevance of the name Masao , to Pigafetta’s account , Mazaua.
- 5. Limasawa, Southern Leyte Evidences • Francisco Albo’s Log Book one of the pilot in the voyage of Magellan , who is included in 18 survivors, writes on his book that they erected a cross on a mountain that overlooks the island. • On June 19, 1960, the Philippine Congress enacted a bill [R.A. No. 2733] declaring Limasawa as the place where Magellan celebrated the first recorded mass in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521.
- 6. • In 1996, The first ever Christian Mass in the country on March 31, 1521 was celebrated in the island of Limasawa, south of Leyte and not in Butuan City, so declared the National Historical Institute. • Jesuit Priest Miguel A. Bernard , studied pigafetta’s maps and notice that in pigafetta’s journal he didn’t mention the crucial aspect of Butuan- the river, which makes a distinct characteristics of Butuan’s geography that seemed to be much important to be missed .
- 7. Therefore, the First Catholic Mass in the Philipines was held on March 31, 1521 , Easter Sunday .It was officiated by a priest named Father Pedro Valderrama in the shore of Mazaua in Pigafetta’s journal , whom people believe is the town specifically in the shore of Limasawa in Southern Leyte. It is popularly known as the birthplace of the Church in the Philippines.