Site of the First Mass: Butuan or Limasawa Flashcards
An uninhabited island where Magellan and his men landed to rest and secure more food and water.
Homonhon
True or false: The presence of arable lands supports that Butuan is the site of the first mass.
True
True or false: The assertion that the first mass was held in Limasawa was backed up by the National Historical Institute/ National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
True
What is Zubu known today?
Cebu
What is the nationality of Magellan?
Portuguese
What month did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?
March
What day of the week did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?
Saturday
What was the first island in the Philippines did Magellan and his men saw?
Samar
True or false: The ten balanghais suspected to have been used by Magellan’s troops to reach the island of the first mass were excavated in Limasawa.
False
The Butuan papers argue that Mazaua must have been the barrio ____ of the present-day Butuan City.
Masao
True or false: The place “Limasawa” was mentioned by both Pigafetta and Francisco Albo.
False
True or false: Gold was considered the currency of the Butuan kingdom before the Spaniards came to the Philippines.
True
What is another term for blood compact or sanduguan?
Casicasi
What name did Magellan give to the Philippines?
Archipelago de San Lazaro
Ladrone or Ladrones (Island of Thieves) is known as what place in the Pacific today?
Mariana Islands (Guam)
Who was the pilot of Magellan’s flagship named Trinidad whose logbook was also used as primary evidence in Magellan’s expedition
Francisco Albo
Raja Siaua (Siagu) was the ruler of what place?
Butuan
True or false: Limawasa island has no worthwhile “hunting grounds,” unlike Masao/Butuan.
True
True or false: For 300 years during the Spanish colonial period, the Catholic Church in the Philippines believed in the Butuan tradition as the location of the first mass in the country.
True
How many native chieftain(s) were in attendance during the First Mass?
2
Maluku or Moluccas (Spice Islands) is found today in what country?
Indonesia
This is a small boat used by pre-colonial Filipinos, which Pigafetta mentioned in his chronicles.
Balanghai
Pigafetta tells us that the First Mass celebrated on Philippine soil was held on Easter _______.
Sunday
True or false: Pigafetta mentioned a river in the place where the first mass happened.
False
True or false: The “balanghais” found in Butuan in the 1980s are examples of historical sources that are unwritten and archaeological.
True
True or false: If I examine the genuineness of the Butuan “balanghais,” I am doing internal criticism.
False
Listing every name, location, date, and event mentioned in the records of Francisco Albo and Antonio Pigafetta is akin to doing: Context Analysis or Content Analysis
Content Analysis
Researching the backgrounds of the authors of the two primary sources (Pigafetta and Albo) that historians refer to in identifying the site of the first mass in the Philippines: Doing content or context analysis
Doing Context Analysis
This is an act declaring the site in Magellan’s, Limasawa Island in Leyte as the location of the first mass in the Philippines.
RA no. 2733
This is formerly called as National Historical Institute.
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
He asserted that Magellan could not possibly land at a dangerous coral reef elongated island, the Limasawa, considering that it was never a port or harbor since time immemorial. Until today, he maintains that the Limasawa shoreline is unsuitable for docking.
Fr. Joesilo Amalla
A place mentioned by Pigafetta as the site of the first mass in the country and is considered the birth of Christianity in the Philippines.
Mazaua
The priest who officiated the first Catholic mass in the country.
Fr. Pedro De Valderrama
Agusan de Norte: Butuan // Southern Leyte: _____________
Limasawa
What is the title of Fr. Joesilo Amelia’s book about the site of the first mass?
An Island They Called Mazaua, The Truth About the Site of the First Holy Mass in the Philippines
He is a Roman Catholic priest of the Butuan diocese who has spend the last 46 years researching about the controversy of the first mass.
Fr. Joesilo Amalla
This is the era where the church and state were so tightly enmeshed in conquest and Christianization, they acted as one.
Patronato Real
What rekindled the First Mass controversy?
The discovery of the remains of the Butuan plank boats in the 1980s by archaeologists of the National Museum
This place is an elongated island with perilous coral reefs. It was never a port nor a harbor since time immemorial.
Limasawa
What date according to Pigafetta was the first mass celebrated on?
March 31, 1521
As far as Pangasinan is concerned, when was the first mass celebrated?
in 1324 by a Franciscan missionary
This is a high and at a distance of three hundred leagues from the islands of Ladroni, an island named Zamal.
Samar
Palm wine
Uraca
Why did Magellan name the Philippines “Archipelago de San Lazaro?”
Because there are many islands and as they were discovered on the Sunday of St. Lazarus.
What was the former name of Zamatra?
Taprobana
Who is the first king of Butuan?
Raia Colambu
What sport did the captain-general arrange a tournament of?
Fencing
True or false: There was a mention of the word “Limasawa” in the accounts of Pigafetta and Albo.
False
