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    The document discusses the controversy over the site of the First Mass in the Philippines. There are competing monuments erected in 1872 at Magallanes (Butuan) and in 1953 on the island of Limasawa. Modern historians analyzing original sources place the site at Limasawa, while the Butuan monument was based on a 250-year old tradition. Eyewitness accounts from Pigafetta, Albo's logbook, and a Genoese pilot place the site away from Butuan and Mindanao at Limasawa or Mazzana. Later cartographers caused confusion by incorrectly placing the site near Butuan.

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    The document discusses the controversy over the site of the First Mass in the Philippines. There are competing monuments erected in 1872 at Magallanes (Butuan) and in 1953 on the island of Limasawa. Modern historians analyzing original sources place the site at Limasawa, while the Butuan monument was based on a 250-year old tradition. Eyewitness accounts from Pigafetta, Albo's logbook, and a Genoese pilot place the site away from Butuan and Mindanao at Limasawa or Mazzana. Later cartographers caused confusion by incorrectly placing the site near Butuan.

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    Peter Schreurs

    Source: Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society,


    Vol. 9, No. 3 (September 1981), pp. 192-216
    Published by: University of San Carlos Publications

    z
    The First Mass
    Site Revisited
    z
    Introduction – Monumental Controversy

    1. In 1872 a monument was erected at Magallanes (the old Butuan),


    commemorating the landing of Magellan and the ' 'First Mass in
    this place on April 8 (sic) 1521

    2. In 1953 another monument was placed on the island of Limasawa,


    obviously contesting the former. The

     Butuan monument was the culmination of a 250 year-old tradition


    based on writings going as far back as 1663 (Colin) and reasserted
    again and again up to the turn of the century. The one at Limasawa
    owed its erection to modern historical methodology using original
    primary sources, some of which had not been generally available
    previously.
    z
    Sketches of Butuan Monument
    z
    Modern Secondary Sources

     "Official Position Paper of the Butuan Historical Commission"


    (1977) and some private opinions voiced regularly or written by
    some involved local individuals here at Butuan.

     The First Mass Site by Father Miguel Bemad, SJ of Xavier


    University, Cagayan de Oro published in the journal
    ''Kinaadman'' (vol. Ill, 1981). Eve
    z
    Eyewitness Reports

     Pigafetta, the official chronicler of Magellan's expedition

     Albo 's logbook

     The ' 'Roteiro'' (official route-guide) prepared by an unknown Genoese


    pilot, who was with Magellan.

     information either directly from the survivors of the expedition and/or


    from documents obtained from them:

     De Brito, who captured the ship "Trinidad," crew and documents, in


    Portuguese Moluccan waters.

     Peter d'Anghieri Martyr and Maximilianus Transylvanus, who


    interviewed the survivors shortly after the latter's return to Europe.
    z
    Secondary Evidence

     From all writers and cartographers who worked with "hearsay-


    evidence" afterwards, or who interpreted primary sources (what
    they possessed of them) in their own way.

     Cartographic confusion made in 1575 in the Netherlands

    1. Torreno/Pigafetta and De la Cruz located "Mazzana" or


    "Macagna" (Variations of Limasawa) somewhere away from
    Butuan, away from the mainland of Mindanao

    2. Ortelius and Mercator plunk their ' 'Messana" down near


    Butuan, on Mindanao soil.
    z

    Fig. 4: Magellan 's Route from the Pacific Ocean to Cebu. (Frpm '
    'Kinaadman,'' vol. III, 198

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