According to our research The Limasawa–Butuan controversy was first addressed by the National

Historical Institute (NHI) in 1960, followed by the formation of two more panels in 1995 and 2008. The
government has always claimed Limasawa as the location of the country's first Easter Sunday Mass. In
2018, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) organized another group, headed by
prominent historian Resil B. Mojares, to look into the ongoing arguments in favor of Butuan.
As evidence, the pro-Butuan party introduced non-eyewitness accounts from decades after the Mass.
Meanwhile, the pro-Limasawa community provided eyewitnesses' Mazaua panel coordinates, studies
and projects that have used modern navigational instruments can retrace the Magellan–Elcano
expedition, and copies of Pigafetta's original accounts.

The NHCP rejected the Butuan argument due to insufficient evidence to alter the government's current
stance, and reaffirmed Limasawa as the site of the first Easter Sunday Mass in the Philippines, ahead of
the country's quincentennial celebration of Christianization. The panel also supports historian Rolando
Borrinaga's proposal to recognize Triana rather than Magallanes as the precise position in Limasawa of
the first Mass, and Saub Point in Triana as the site of the Magellan expedition's cross planting.