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    The document discusses two perspectives on the site of the first Catholic mass in the Philippines - Butuan or Limasawa Island. The Butuan perspective claims the first mass was held there based on the testimony of Father Francisco Colin. However, there is no solid evidence to support this claim. The Limasawa Island perspective is backed by multiple pieces of strong evidence from primary sources like Pigafetta's memoirs from Magellan's expedition and Legazpi's expedition records, which describe the mass taking place on Limasawa Island on Easter Sunday 1521. Log books and Albo's accounts also provide geographical details that match Limasawa Island but not Butuan.

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    The document discusses two perspectives on the site of the first Catholic mass in the Philippines - Butuan or Limasawa Island. The Butuan perspective claims the first mass was held there based on the testimony of Father Francisco Colin. However, there is no solid evidence to support this claim. The Limasawa Island perspective is backed by multiple pieces of strong evidence from primary sources like Pigafetta's memoirs from Magellan's expedition and Legazpi's expedition records, which describe the mass taking place on Limasawa Island on Easter Sunday 1521. Log books and Albo's accounts also provide geographical details that match Limasawa Island but not Butuan.

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    The document discusses two perspectives on the site of the first Catholic mass in the Philippines - Butuan or Limasawa Island. The Butuan perspective claims the first mass was held there based on the testimony of Father Francisco Colin. However, there is no solid evidence to support this claim. The Limasawa Island perspective is backed by multiple pieces of strong evidence from primary sources like Pigafetta's memoirs from Magellan's expedition and Legazpi's expedition records, which describe the mass taking place on Limasawa Island on Easter Sunday 1521. Log books and Albo's accounts also provide geographical details that match Limasawa Island but not Butuan.

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    1.

    Summarize two (2) learning resources from 03 Readings: The Site


    of the First Mass.

    Where was the First Mass Held on the land of Philippines


     There is a controversy regarding the site of the first Mass ever
    celebrated in the land of the Philippines, Antonio Pigefetta, an
    Italian chronicler of Magellan’s expedition, says that it was
    held at Easter Sunday, the 31st of March 1521, on an island called
    “Mazaua”. There are two conflicting school of thoughts about the
    site of the first mass in the Philippines. The first claim is
    that the site of the first mass took place at Butuan, Agusan del
    Norte and the second school of thought was widely accepted
    version, it was said to be held on Limasawa, Southern Leyte on an
    Eastern Sunday.
    2. State the viewpoint/argument of each resource.
    Butuan
     With no supporting evidences, According to Father Fransisco Colin
    SJ. Historian Magellan first came to Butuan, then to Limasawa,
    and then to cebu. However, Jesuit writer Father Francisco Conves
    S.J. has another complaint. For him, Magellan visited Limasawa
    twice, Magellan’s route driven accrding to his testimony,
    traveled from Limasawa to Butuan, returned to Limasawa and
    returned to Cebu on April 7, 1521.
    Limasawa
     Limasawa tradition came after Butuan, the First Mass was held on
    the Island of Limasawa in Visayas on March 31. 1521. Unlike the
    Butuan tradition, the Limasawa tradition is backed by a lot of
    solid evidence, including Arbo records, evidence from Pigafetta
    and the Evidence from Legazpi expedition.

    3. Present what evidences that each resource used to support this


    viewpoint/argument.
     The Evidence that proves, Limasawa, in Southern Leyte is the Site
    of the first Mass on our country, is written on the cited memoirs
    of Antonio Pigaffeta who is within Ferdinand Magellan’s
    expedition. Evidences pointing that the first mass is held on
    Butuan is not just lacking, but it is also inconsistent.
    The Butuan tradition is then invalidated and they came up
    with a better tradition, The Limasawa tradition. This tradition
    unlike the other is supported with a number of solid proofs which
    includes the log book, evidences of pigafetta and the evidence
    from legazpi’s expedition. In albo’s account he did not mention
    where the first mass was held, instead he mentioned that Magellan
    planted the cross “upon a mountain top from which could be seen
    in three islands to the west and southwest.” This fits the
    description of geographical area of limasawa which is not
    applicable to Butuan because there was no island found in those
    directions. These are strong proofs for these people have been a
    part of the expedition.

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