The Butuan and Limasawa debate about the first mass setting in Philippine soil has been

going on for many years. There are four accounts from Colin, Combés, de Zuñiga and Juan
de la Concepdon conveying and standing by the fact that it was held in Butuan. However,
Pigafetta's account states that contradicts the four accounts represented in The Archipelogo
of San Lazaro by de la Concepdon, Historia de Mindanao y Jolo by Combés, Historia de
Filibinas by de Zuñiga and Labor Evangilica by Colin compared to his account of The First
Voyage Around the World and Albo's Log that The two American got their 'shift in opinion'
namely Emma Blair and James Alexander Robertson.

The presented accounts both state the impressive knowledge and analytic skills that
an historian can possess. However, in my humble opinion, I am siding with the four accounts
of Francisco Colin S.J., Francisco Combés S.J., Juan de la Concepdon, and Jouaquin Martinez
de Zuñiga. One of those accounts may have some errors in pointing out or stating the right
location and places here in the Philippines, but the dates presented correlate with them all.
They all similarly convey that on The Easter Sunday of year 1521 Magellan was in Butuan
and proposed about the tradition of Butuan. Apart from that, there was a sculpted marble
slab on a brick pillar engraved inscription which is translated into "To Immortal Magellan:
the People of Butuan with their Parish and Priest and the Spaniards resident therein, to
commemorate his arrival" which is an example of a deserving national shrine. The mass that
occurred on Limasawa doesn't mean it was the first ever mass to occur in Ph. Hence, it also
means that if there was a Limasawa Law Act No. 2773, it doesn't mean that it has the throne
of the National Shrine relating to the topic. First and foremost, the law was just enacted and
it wasn't approved nor vetoed, but since it’s what it’s stated in the law, it was then, of
course, recognized. Furthermore, if Limasawa truly owned that title, there would be no
conflicting factors, right? This evidence presented by the pro-Butuan is just the perfect
combination to bring up an interesting debatable topic.

The significance of the topic whether The Site of the First in the Philippines is occurred in
Limasawa or Butuan on me is that it pointed out the first born of Christianity here in
Philippines. as the only country of Asian that have majority of its people have roman
catholic as its region it’s very crucial of its origin. the location can be identify as one of the
Philippines national shrine which give it as a great honour since The Spaniards were the first
to introduce Christianity to the Philippines in 1565 with the arrival of Miguel Lopez de
Legazpi. This has influenced Filipinos since then and continues to do so, resulting in the
Philippines being the most Christian nation and the only one in Asia with a majority faith in
Christianity.