PART 2 QUIZ - (ESSAY)

Direction: Discuss/Give the historical connotation/associated meaning of each question

Site of the First Mass

A. (10 pts)

On March 18, 1521, nine friendly Filipinos from the neighbouring island of Saluan arrived in a boat gave
their cargo of bananas, fish, coconuts and palm wine to Magellan as the first Filipinos seen by the
Spaniards. 

- On Monday afternoon, 18 March, after eating, they saw a boat coming towards them with nine men in
it, the captain-general ordered that no one should move or say a word without his permission. When
those men reached the shore, their chief went immediately to the captain-general, giving signs of joy
because of their arrival.

B. (10 pts)

First recorded blood compact in the annals of the country on Good Friday on March 29, 1521, between
Magellan at his arrival with his visitor-brother, Rajah Siagu, the King of Butuan. 

- On Good Friday, a kasikasi (blood compact) between Magellan and Rajah Kolambu, the ambassador of
the King of Limasawa, an island off the coast of southern Leyte, sealed an indirect political agreement
between Spain and the Philippines. The blood compact is where the Rajah and Magellan drank each
other’s blood mixed with the native wine called Atuba.

C. (10 pts)

The first mass in the Philippines was held on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521

- On March 31, 1521, an Easter Sunday, Magellan ordered a Mass to be celebrated which was officiated
by Father Pedro Valderrama, the First Holy Mass marked the birth of Roman Catholicism in the
Philippines.

C. (10 pts)

At sundown, Magellan solemnly planted a wooden cross on the summit of a hill overlooking the sea.
- Magellan planted a cross to signify this important event about the propagation of the Roman Catholic
faith in what is now Cebu, in central Philippines.