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Introduction
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 Introduction
☆History
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BUTUAN
 Primary Source

Albo's log

Presented by: Lunzaga, Yen

 Mariana Island
(March 16,1521) as they are
heading in the northwest,they
saw land named Yunagan.
Yunagan is known today as
"Mariana Island"
•They went instead that the same
day southwards to another small

island named Suluan. Suluan was

among the first Philippine

islands liberated from the

Japanese.
•They sailed westward to an unhabited
island of "Gada". The sea around that island
was free from shallow.
•They sailed westwards towards a
large island names Seilani.
Seilani known today as "Leyte"
 Limasawa Island
Sailing southwards,they turned southwest to a small island "Mazava".
Mazava is known today as "Limasawa Island"
•There are the Spaniards planted a cross upon

a mountain-top,and from there they were

shown three island to the west and

southwest.
•They followed the east of Seilani in a

northwesterly direction,ascending up to 10

degrees of latitude.
• Entered a channel between two
islands,the "Matan" and the
"Zubu"
•Then they turned westward and

anchored at the town of Zubu.

•Between Mazava and Zubu,there were
so many shallows that the boats could not

go westward directly.
 Magellan's expedition sighted a
"high land" named "Zamal" which
was some 300 leagues westward
of Landrones (now the Marianas)
Islands.

March 16,1521
(Saturday)
 "The following day" after sighting
Zamal Islands, they landed on
"another island which was
uninhabited" and which lay "to the
right" of the above-mentioned
island of "Zamal". There they set up
two tents for the sick members of
the crew and had a sow killed for
them. The name of this island was
"Humunu" (Homonhon). This island
was located at 10 degrees North
latitude.

March 17 (Sunday)
On the same day, Magellan named
the entire archipelago the "Island
of Saint Lazarus " the reason being
that it was Sunday in the Lenten
season when the Gospel assigned
for the Mass and the liturgical
Office was the eleventh chapter of
St. John, which tells of the raising
of Lazarus from the dead.

March 17 (Sunday)
 In the afternoon of their second day on
that island, they saw a boat coming
towards them with nine men in it. An
exchange of gifts was effected, Magellan
asked for food supplies, and the men went
away, promising to bring rice and other
supplies in "four days."
March 18 (Monday)
There were two springs of water on
that island of Homonhon. Also they
saw there some indications that
there was gold in these islands.
Consequently Magellan renamed
the island and called it the
"Watering Place of Good Omen"
(Acquada la di bouni segnialli).
 At noon the natives returned. This
time they were in two boats, and
they brought food supplies
(Magellan's expedition stayed
eight days at Homonhon:from
Sunday, March 17, to Monday of the
following week, March 25.)
March 22 (Friday)
 In the afternoon, the expedition weighed anchor
and left the island of Homonhon. In the
ecclesiastical calendar, this day (March 25) was the
feast-day of the Incarnation, also called the feast
of the Announciation and therefore "Our Lady
Day." On this day, as they were about to weigh
anchor, an accident happened to Pigafetta: he fell
into the water but was rescued. He attribute his
narrow to escape from death as grace obtained
through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary
on her feast-day.

March 25 (Monday)
In the morning of the Holy Thursday, they
anchored off an island where the
previous night they had seen a light or a
bonfire. That island lies in latitude of 9
and 2/3 towards the Arctic Pole (North)
and in a longitude of one hundred and
62 degrees from the line of
demarcation. It is 25 leagues from the
Acquada, and is called Mazua.
March 28 (Thursday)
In the morning they anchored near an island where they had
seen a light the night before a small boat (boloto) came
with eight natives, to whom Magellan threw some trinkets as
presents. The natives paddled away, but two hours later two
larger boats (balanghai) came, in come which the native
king sat under an aging of mats. At Magellan's invitation
some of the natives went up the Spanish ships, but the
native king remained seated in his boat. An exchange of
gifts was effected. In the afternoon that day, the Spanish
ships weighed anchor and came closer to shore anchoring
near the native king's village. This Thursday, March 28, was
Thursday in holy week (Holy Thursday).
 "Next day, Holy Friday," Magellan sent his slave interpreter
ashore in a small boat to ask the king if he could provide the
expedition with food supplies, and to say that they had come
as friends and not as enemies. In reply the king himself came
in a boat with six or eight men, and this time went up
Magellan's ship and the two man embraced. Another
exchange of gifts was made. The native king and his
companions returned ashore, bringing with them two
members of Magellan's expedition as guests from the night.
One of the two was Pigafetta.

March 29 (Friday)
 Pigafetta and his companion had spent
the previous evening and drinking with the
native king and his son. Pigafetta
deplored the fact that, although it was a
Good Friday, they had to eat meat. The
following morning (Saturday) Pigafetta
and his companion took leave of their
hosts and returned to the ships.
March 30 (Saturday)
 March 31 (Sunday)

"Early in the morning of Sunday, the last of March and Easter day,"
Magellan sent the priest ashore with some men to prepare for the Mass
later in the morning Magellan landed with some fifty men and Mass was
celebrated, after which a cross was venerated. Magellan and the
Spaniards returned to the ship for the noon-day meal, but in the
afternoon they returned ashore to plant the cross on the summit of the
highest hill. In attendance both at the Mass and at the planting of the
cross were the king of Mazaua and the king of Butuan.
 On that same afternoon (Sunday), while on the
summit of the highest hill, Magellan asked the two
kings which ports he should go to in order to obtain
more abundant supplies of food than were available
in that island. They replied that there were three
ports to choose from: Ceylon, Zubu, and Calagan. Of
the three, Zubu was the port with the most trade.
Magellan then said that the pilots would be available
"any time". He asked Magellan to send him men to
help with the harvest.
 April 1 (Monday)

Magellan sent mean ashore to help with the harvest,

but no work was done that day because the two
kings were sleeping off their drinking but the night
before.
April 2-3 (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Work on the harvest during the "next

to days", i.e Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 2nd and 3rd of
April.
 April 4 (Thursday)

They leave Mazaua,

bound for Cebu
They left Mazaua, bound for Cebu. They
were guided thither by the king of
Mazaua who sailed in his own boat. Their
route took them past 5 Islands : Ceylon,
Bohol, Canadian, Babai and Gatinghan
 At Ganighan, they sailed westward to the 3 islands:
1. Poro
2. Pasihan
3. Poison
Here the Spanish ships stopped to allow the king of Mazaua to
catch up with them, since the Spanish ships were much faster than
the native balanghai- a thing that excited the admiration of the
king of Mazaua from the Camotes Islands they sailed southwards
towards "Zubu"
 April 7 (Sunday)

At noon they entered the harbor of "zubu" (Cebu). It

had taken them 3 days to negotiate the journey from
Mazaua northwards to the Camotes Islands and then
Southwards to Cebu.
Conclusion
Knowing the exact place where the first
Catholic Mass took place is hard
especially nowadays in which the
evidences might have vanished already
as the time went by. However, tackling
about this discussion where the Catholic
mass took place. The two suspected
places were limasawa and butuan.

 Additional Information
The National Historical Commision of the
Philippines (NHCP) Sustained findings that the
limasawa island in Southern leyte was the site of
the 1521 Easter Sunday Mass, the first Catholic
Mass in the country.
References
The History Itself
By Harper Russo

The Past and the Present

By Aaron Loeb
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