a Spanish friar and the chaplain of Magellan, who conducted the
first Catholic mass in the Philippiines. Magellan ordered the mass to be celebrated, which took place on 31 March 1521 (Easter Sunday). Ferdinand Magellan was the first European recorded to have landed in the Philippines*. He arrived in March 1521 during his circumnavigation of the globe. He claimed land for the king of Spain but was killed by a local chief. Joesilo C. Amalla a Catholic priest in the Butuan Diocese of Butuan, is the author of the recently published history book, An Island They Called Mazaua. Francisco Albo, botswain and navigator from the island of Rhodes. Originally botswain of the Trinidad in Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, he then became pilot of the Victoria under the command of Sebastian de Elcano. -he is one of the 18 survivors who is returned with Sebastian Elcano on the ship Victoria after their voyage Antonio Pigafetta was an Venetian scholar and explorer. He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of the emperor Charles V and after Magellan's death in the Philippine Islands, the subsequent voyage around the world. 1995,the panel was headed by no less than a justice of the Supreme Court, the honorable Emilio Gancayco. The unanimous decision was that Limasawa was where the first Holy Mass was celebrated. In 2008, a second panel led by Dr. Benito Legarda Jr., affirmed the decision of the Gancayco panel — Limasawa, not Butuan.
Trinidad Magellan commanded the lead ship Trinidad and was accompanied by four other ships: the San Antonio, the Conception, the Victoria and the Santiago.
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