Mod5.1_Site of the First Mass

Question 1

The site of the first Mass ever celebrated on Philippine soil was celebrated on___

Answer 1

• Easter Sunday
• 31st of March 1521

Question 2

The first mass includes planting of ____ upon a hill’s summit

Answer 2

wooden cross

Question 3

What is the subject of controversy about the first mass?

Answer 3

the identity of the place of which Pigafetta calls “Mazaua”

Question 4

First identity: Mazaua is the little island sound of Leyte called ___

Answer 4

Limasawa

Question 5

Second Identity: Mazaua is the beach called ___ at the mouth of the Agusan River in northern Mindanao,
near Butuan

Answer 5

Masao

Question 6

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
___ mentioned that the first island they touched at was Humunu”

Answer 6

Father Francisco Colin S.J-Labor evangelica, 1663

Question 7

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
__ mentioned that they gave the name San Lazaro to the entire Archipelago

Answer 7

Father Francisco Colin S.J-Labor evangelica, 1663

Question 8

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
Father Francisco Colin S,J- Labor evangelica, 1663 said that Magellan went first to___, then to ____ and then to ___

Answer 8

Butuan–>Limasawa–>Cebu

Question 9

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century

he does not mention the first Mass
but he mentions 1) the planting of the cross

Answer 9

Father Francisco Combes S.J.- Historia de Mindanao y Jolo, 1667

Question 10

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
Father Francisco Comber S.J. said about the formal claiming of the Archipelago on behalf of the ___

Answer 10

Castilian crown

Question 11

Father Francisco Combes S.J wrote__

Answer 11

Historia de Mindanao y Jolo, 1667

Question 12

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
Father Francisco Comber S.J. said that Magellan visits ___, goes to ___, returns to___,
and thence to ___

Answer 12

Limasawa–>Butuan–> Limasawa–>Cebu

Question 13

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
He wrote Giro del Mondo (A Voyage Around the World)

Answer 13

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

Question 14

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
A. 17th Century
He wrote Estadismo

Answer 14

Fray Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga

Question 15

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
B. 18th Century
He wrote History of the Philippines

Answer 15

Fray Juan de la Concepcion

Question 16

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
C. 19th Century
He wrote historia de Filipinas, 1803

Answer 16

fray Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga

Question 17

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
C. 19th Century
John Foreman mentioned the ___

Answer 17

first Mass in Butuan

Question 18

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
C. 19th Century
He is a dominican friar___

Answer 18

Valentin Morales y Martin

Question 19

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
C. 19th Century
What did Jose Montero y Vidal wrote?

Answer 19

El Archipelago filipino, 1886; Historia general de Filipinas

Question 20

I. THE BUTUAN TRADITION
C. 19th Century
He accepted the Butuan Tradition

Answer 20

Wenceslao Retana, 1893

Question 21

II. The Shift in Opinion
They are two Americans and created a 55-volume collection of documents on the Philippine Islands, published from
1903 to 1909

Answer 21

Emma Blair and James Alexander Robertson

Question 22

II. The Shift in Opinion
He is a Spanish Jesuit scholar

Answer 22

Father Pablo Pastells S.J

Question 23

II. The Shift in Opinion
Father Pablo Pastells S.J wants to write second edition so he studied but found differences.
Due to a rediscovery and a more attentive study of two primary sources on the
subject: __

Answer 23

1) Pigafetta’s account and 2) Albo’s log

Question 24

The cause of the shift in opinion from Butuan to Limasawa was the publication in
1894 of Pigafetta’s account, as contained in the ____

Answer 24

Ambrosian codex

Question 25

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
1. The Evidence of Albo’s Log-Book
___ joined the Magellan expedition as a pilot (“contramaestre”) in Magellan’s
flagship “Trinidad”;

Answer 25

Francisco Albo

Question 26

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
1. The Evidence of Albo’s Log-Book
___one of the eighteen survivors who returned with
Sebastian Elcano on the “Victoria” after having circumnavigated the world

Answer 26

Flagship “Trinidad”

Question 27

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
2. the Evidence from Pigafetta
The most complete account of the Magellan expedition is that by Antonio Pigafetta entitled ___(First Voyage Around the World).

Answer 27

Primo viaggio intomo al mondo

Question 28

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
2. the Evidence from Pigafetta
A-E

Answer 28

(a) Pigafetta’s testimony regarding the route
(b) The evidence of Pigafetta’s maps
(c) The two native kings
(d) The seven days at “Mazaua”
(e) The argument from omission

Question 29

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
3. The Legazpi Expedition
- Mazaua was an island near Leyte and Panaon; Butuan was on the island of ___. The two were entirely different places and in no way identical.

Answer 29

Mindanao.

Question 30

III. The Evidence for Limasawa
4. The geography of “Mazaua”
- The island is still referred to by the fisherfolk as “____”, not Limasawa.

Answer 30

Masaoa