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    The document discusses the ongoing controversy around the site of the First Catholic Mass in the Philippines between Limasawa Island and Masao, Butuan. Scholars cite different evidence from historical accounts and maps to argue for either location. Antonio Pigafetta's journal places the event at "Mazaua" but scholars disagree on whether this referred to Limasawa Island or Masao, complicating efforts to definitively establish where Roman Catholicism was first introduced to the Philippines. The debate continues as evidence exists to support both potential sites of the significant historical event.

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    “ONE PAST BUT MANY HISTORIES”

    - DR. LUISA

    CAMAGAY
    UNIT III

    “ONE PAST BUT MANY


    HISTORIES”
    CONTROVERSIES AND CONFLICTING VIEWS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
    LESSON 1:

    THE SITE OF THE

    FIRST MASS
    BY: YZZA DONATO
    BSCE 1A
    READINGS IN THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY
    ANTONIO PIGAFETTA (1491-1531)
     ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, AND
    CARTOGRAPHY

     Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of


    Venice

     travelled with portuguese explorer Ferdinand


    Magellan and his crew on their First Voyage
    around the world.

     One of the eighteen survivors who returned to Spain


    aboard the "Victoria" and therefore considered as an
    eyewitness of the significant events happened on the
    FIRST MASS.
     The first Catholic Mass was celebrated on March 31, 1521 ,an Easter Sunday.
    Pigafetta referred to the evenue as “MAZAUA”
     It was conducted by Spanish friar Pedro de Valderrama of
    Ferdinand Magellan's expedition along the shores of “MAZAUA”

     The Holy first Mass marked the birth of Roman Catholicism in the
    Philippines.

     Located at the Southern Leyte, popularly known as the birthplace of the church
    in the philippines.
    CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN
    LIMASAWA AND MASAO /BUTUAN
    WHERE EXACTLY IS MAZAUA LOCATED?

    R.A. No. 2733 declared Barangay


    Magallanes in Limasawa, Southern Leyte as
    the site of the First Mass
    .
    MASAO, BUTUAN
    1872: 1953:
    A monument to remind The people in Butuan On the basis of this Historian Zaide identified The basis of Zaide's
    the site of the firs \fbci asked the Philippine objection, the monument Masao in Butuan as the claim is the journal of
    bk tt Mass on the Historical Committee to was re-erected, but the locations of the first Antonio Pigafetta,
    Philippines was erected rehabilitate the marble slab stating that it Mass. chronicler of Magellan's
    in Masao, Butuan. monument or install a was the site of the first journey.
    memorial o the site. Mass was removed.

     The name of the place is “Mazaua”. Limasawa has four (4) syllables and begins with another letter.
     The expedition travelled to 20-25 leagues from Homonhon. If they had been to Limasawa island, the distance only is
    14.6 leagues.
     Distance to Cebu from Mazaua according to Pigafetta was 35 leagues (140 miles). Limasawa to Cebu is only 80 miles.
     The king came to their ship in “balangai”. Butuan is now the site of atleast nine excavated balangai relics.
     The western explorers got excited at the abundance of gold in Mazaua, for that main currency at that time.
    LIMASAWA
    • Jaime de Veyra former governor of Leyte- “the first Mass was celebrated in Limasawa, not in Butuan”

    • According to Historian Pablo Pastells’ footnote to Francisco Colins’ Labor Evangelica


    “Magellan did not go to Butuan but from Limasawa to Cebu.”

    • James Robertson concurred with Pastells in a footnote that "Mazua" was actually Limasawa.

    • Francisco Albo, pilot of Magellan's flagship didn’t mention the first Mass, but he writes that they erected a cross on a
    mountain that overlooked the islands in the west, and the southwest.

    •Antonio Pigafetta and Fransisco Albo, as Magellan Witnesses, claimed that the first mass was held on the Island
    of Mazaua (MASAWA)

    • Fr. Bernard studied all the Pigafetta's maps, which place in Mazau off the southern tip of the larger island of Leyte, a
    check with the modern maps will show that this jibes with Limasawa and not in Masao or Butuan.
    EVIDENCE FOR MASAO, BUTUAN
    A. The name of the place
    B. The route from Homonhon
    C. The latitude positions
    D. The geographical features
    E. The bonfire
    F. The balanghai EVIDENCE FOR LIMASAWA
    G. House A. The evidence of Albo’s Log-Book
    H. Abundance of gold B. The Evidence of Pigafetta
    I. A developed settlement a) Pigafetta’s testimony regarding the route;
    b) The evidence of Pigafetta’s map
    c) The two native kings
    d) The seven days at "Mazaua."
    C. An argument from the omission
    D. Summarizing the evidence of Albo and Pigafetta.
    E. Confirmatory evidence from Legazpi expedition
    REFERENCES:
    • R. Abatayo. 2019(Limasawa or Butuan? Debates continue on where first Mass was held) retrieved at
    https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/270037/limasawa-or-butuan-debates-continue-on-where-first-mass-was-held
    • H.F.Cosmod. 2022(The Site of the First Mass: Masao or Limasawa?) retrieved at
    https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/university-of-bohol/asian-history/w4-act1-site-of-the-first-mass/30492147
    • Laguna State Polytechnic University - Siniloan (2019) retrieved at
    https://www.coursehero.com/file/p5q54q8/LIMASAWA-Jaime-de-Veyra-stated-that-the-first-mass-was-celebrated-in-
    Limasawa/
    • A. V. Mayol, J. Gabieta. 2021(Limasawa, Site of First Mass in PH)retrieved at
    https://worldmissionmagazine.com/archives/december-2020/limasawa-site-first-mass-ph

    THANK YOU!

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