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CASE STUDY #1
Where Did the First Catholic Mass
Take Place in the Philippines?
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Masao, Butuan City
or Limasawa, Southern
Leyte
Butuan has long been
believed as the site of the
first mass.
• President Carlos P. Garcia did not sign the law [R.A. No. 2733]. An Act to
Declare the Site in Magallanes, Limasawa Island in the Province of Leyte
• 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.
• 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
Limasawa,
island. Southern
• On June 19, 1960, the Philippine Congress
enacted a bill [R.A. No. 2733] declaring
Leyte
Limasawa as the place where Magellan
celebrated the first recorded mass in the
Evidences
Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521.
•Using the primary source
available, Jesuit priest Miguel A.
Bernad in his work Butuan or
Limasawa: The Site of the First
Mass in the Philippines: A
Reexamination of Evidence (1981)
lays down the argument that in the
Pigafetta account, a crucial aspect
of Butuan was not mentioned- the
river. Butuanis the riverine
settlement, situated on the Agusan
River. The beach of the river, which
makes part of a distinct
characteristic of Butuan's
geography that seemed to be too
much important to be missed.
The first Catholic Mass in
the Philippines
•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.
•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.
REFERENCES
• https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/budhi/article/view/582/57
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• Schreurs, P. (1981). THE FIRST MASS SITE REVISITED. Philippine
Quarterly of Culture and Society, 9(3), 192-216. Retrieved November
9, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/29791729