Site of the First Mass: Butuan or Limasawa Flashcards

1
Q

An uninhabited island where Magellan and his men landed to rest and secure more food and water.

A

Homonhon

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2
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True or false: The presence of arable lands supports that Butuan is the site of the first mass.

A

True

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3
Q

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.

A

True

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4
Q

What is Zubu known today?

A

Cebu

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5
Q

What is the nationality of Magellan?

A

Portuguese

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6
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What month did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?

A

March

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7
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What day of the week did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?

A

Saturday

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8
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What was the first island in the Philippines did Magellan and his men saw?

A

Samar

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9
Q

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.

A

False

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10
Q

The Butuan papers argue that Mazaua must have been the barrio ____ of the present-day Butuan City.

A

Masao

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11
Q

True or false: The place “Limasawa” was mentioned by both Pigafetta and Francisco Albo.

A

False

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12
Q

True or false: Gold was considered the currency of the Butuan kingdom before the Spaniards came to the Philippines.

A

True

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13
Q

What is another term for blood compact or sanduguan?

A

Casicasi

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14
Q

What name did Magellan give to the Philippines?

A

Archipelago de San Lazaro

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15
Q

Ladrone or Ladrones (Island of Thieves) is known as what place in the Pacific today?

A

Mariana Islands (Guam)

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16
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Who was the pilot of Magellan’s flagship named Trinidad whose logbook was also used as primary evidence in Magellan’s expedition

A

Francisco Albo

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17
Q

Raja Siaua (Siagu) was the ruler of what place?

A

Butuan

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18
Q

True or false: Limawasa island has no worthwhile “hunting grounds,” unlike Masao/Butuan.

A

True

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19
Q

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.

A

True

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20
Q

How many native chieftain(s) were in attendance during the First Mass?

A

2

21
Q

Maluku or Moluccas (Spice Islands) is found today in what country?

A

Indonesia

22
Q

This is a small boat used by pre-colonial Filipinos, which Pigafetta mentioned in his chronicles.

A

Balanghai

23
Q

Pigafetta tells us that the First Mass celebrated on Philippine soil was held on Easter _______.

A

Sunday

24
Q

True or false: Pigafetta mentioned a river in the place where the first mass happened.

A

False

25
Q

True or false: The “balanghais” found in Butuan in the 1980s are examples of historical sources that are unwritten and archaeological.

A

True

26
Q

True or false: If I examine the genuineness of the Butuan “balanghais,” I am doing internal criticism.

A

False

27
Q

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

A

Content Analysis

28
Q

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

A

Doing Context Analysis

29
Q

This is an act declaring the site in Magellan’s, Limasawa Island in Leyte as the location of the first mass in the Philippines.

A

RA no. 2733

30
Q

This is formerly called as National Historical Institute.

A

National Historical Commission of the Philippines

31
Q

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.

A

Fr. Joesilo Amalla

32
Q

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.

A

Mazaua

33
Q

The priest who officiated the first Catholic mass in the country.

A

Fr. Pedro De Valderrama

34
Q

Agusan de Norte: Butuan // Southern Leyte: _____________

A

Limasawa

35
Q

What is the title of Fr. Joesilo Amelia’s book about the site of the first mass?

A

An Island They Called Mazaua, The Truth About the Site of the First Holy Mass in the Philippines

36
Q

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.

A

Fr. Joesilo Amalla

37
Q

This is the era where the church and state were so tightly enmeshed in conquest and Christianization, they acted as one.

A

Patronato Real

38
Q

What rekindled the First Mass controversy?

A

The discovery of the remains of the Butuan plank boats in the 1980s by archaeologists of the National Museum

39
Q

This place is an elongated island with perilous coral reefs. It was never a port nor a harbor since time immemorial.

A

Limasawa

40
Q

What date according to Pigafetta was the first mass celebrated on?

A

March 31, 1521

41
Q

As far as Pangasinan is concerned, when was the first mass celebrated?

A

in 1324 by a Franciscan missionary

42
Q

This is a high and at a distance of three hundred leagues from the islands of Ladroni, an island named Zamal.

A

Samar

43
Q

Palm wine

A

Uraca

44
Q

Why did Magellan name the Philippines “Archipelago de San Lazaro?”

A

Because there are many islands and as they were discovered on the Sunday of St. Lazarus.

45
Q

What was the former name of Zamatra?

A

Taprobana

46
Q

Who is the first king of Butuan?

A

Raia Colambu

47
Q

What sport did the captain-general arrange a tournament of?

A

Fencing

48
Q

True or false: There was a mention of the word “Limasawa” in the accounts of Pigafetta and Albo.

A

False

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A