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    The document discusses whether Magellan first landed in Butuan or Limasawa when he arrived in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521. It notes Pigafetta's account of landing on an island called "Mazaua" where Magellan met the Rajah of Butuan. However, it also mentions the small island of Limasawa south of Leyte as a possible landing site. The majority tradition from the 17th-19th centuries supports Butuan as the site where Magellan celebrated the first mass and erected a cross. A monument was built in Butuan in 1872 commemorating this event, though the exact date was an attempt to translate the Gregorian calendar. Early Jesuit historians also accepted

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    The document discusses whether Magellan first landed in Butuan or Limasawa when he arrived in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521. It notes Pigafetta's account of landing on an island called "Mazaua" where Magellan met the Rajah of Butuan. However, it also mentions the small island of Limasawa south of Leyte as a possible landing site. The majority tradition from the 17th-19th centuries supports Butuan as the site where Magellan celebrated the first mass and erected a cross. A monument was built in Butuan in 1872 commemorating this event, though the exact date was an attempt to translate the Gregorian calendar. Early Jesuit historians also accepted

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    The document discusses whether Magellan first landed in Butuan or Limasawa when he arrived in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521. It notes Pigafetta's account of landing on an island called "Mazaua" where Magellan met the Rajah of Butuan. However, it also mentions the small island of Limasawa south of Leyte as a possible landing site. The majority tradition from the 17th-19th centuries supports Butuan as the site where Magellan celebrated the first mass and erected a cross. A monument was built in Butuan in 1872 commemorating this event, though the exact date was an attempt to translate the Gregorian calendar. Early Jesuit historians also accepted

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    BUTUAN OR LIMASAWA?

    Pigafetta- Eastern Sunday, March 31, 1521, island called “Mazaua”

    - Rajah of Mazaua, Rajah of Butuan


    - A wooden cross was planted upon its summit

    Limasawa – little island south of Leyte

    Butuan – beach called Masao at the mouth of the Agusan River in northern Mindanao near Butuan

    The Butuan Traditon

    Tradition that was almost unanimous and unbroken for three centuries: 17 th-19th

    A monument was erected in 1872 near Agusan River, now the municipality of Magallanes named after Magellan

    Inscription says To the Immortal Magellan: the People of Butuan with their Parish Priest and the Spaniards resident
    therein, to commemorate his arrival and the celebration of the First Mass on this site on the 8 th of April 1521. Erected in
    1872, under the District Governor Jose Ma. Carvallo

    Parish priest at that time was a Spanish friar of the Order Augustinian Recollects.

    Date was an attempt to translate in terms of Gregorian calendar.

    The 17th Century

    Accepted without questions by two Jesuit historians

    Father Francisco Colin S.J. (1592-1660) – Labor evangelica in Madrid, 1663 three yr after his death

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