Site of the First Mass Part-1

Question 1

When was Site of the first mass in the
Philippines?

Answer 1

The first Catholic Mass in the
Philippines was held on March 31,
1521 (Easter Sunday)

Question 2

Where was the Site of the first mass in the
Philippines?

Answer 2

Southern Leyte (Limasawa)- known
as the birthplace of Christianity in
the Philippines

Question 3

Who was the father that lead the Site of the first mass in the
Philippines?

Answer 3

Father Pedro de Valderrama

Question 4

An Italian scholar and explorer who served
as Magellan’s assistant. A very important person who kept an
accurate journal about Magellan and Elcanos
voyage.

Answer 4

ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

Question 5

What are the two books of Antonio Pigafetta

Answer 5

Relazione del primo viaggio intorno
al
mondo and Regole sull’arte del navigare

Question 6

When was the monument built in
Butuan which they believed that it
was the site where the mass
happened.

Answer 6

1872

Question 7

When people in Butuan asked
the Philippine Historical Committee
to rehabilitate the monument or
place a marker on it.

Answer 7

1953

Question 8

Who claimed that the first mass
happened in Masao and used
Pigafetta’s diary as his basis.

Answer 8

Zaide

Question 9

Who stated that the first
mass was celebrated in Limasawa not
in Butuan.

Answer 9

JAIME DE VEYRA

Question 10

___also states
that Magellan did not go to Butuan
but from Limasawa to Cebu.

Answer 10

PABLO PASTELLS

Question 11

Pilot of
Magellan’s flagship

Answer 11

FRANCISCO ALBO

Question 12

Who agreed with
Pastells in a footnote that
“Mazaua” was actually Limasawa?

Answer 12

JAMES ROBERTSON

Question 13

It was mentioned that the king came to their ship in a balanghai.
Butuan is now the site of at least nine excavated balanghai relics.

Answer 13

Diary of Antonio Pigafetta and the Chronicles of Magellan’s
Voyage.

Question 14

A map in 1734, In that map, it
stated that Magellan and his men went to Butuan before going back to Limasawa and went to Cebu.

Answer 14

The Murillo Velarde Map

Question 15

For three centuries the people of Butuan commemorates the
expedition’s arrival and the celebration of mass on April 8, 1521.

Answer 15

THE MARKER

Question 16

In the account of Pigafetta, there was a mention about Baloto (boat)
with 8 men on board and there was also mention about the
Balanghai being full of men with the king sitting under an awning
of mats.

Answer 16

The presence of the Balanghai in the arrival of Magellan.

Question 17

It is estimated to be around 800 years old. (Dimacali, GMA News, 2013).

Answer 17

The excavation of Balanghai in Brgy. Libertad.

Question 18

They even called it, the mother boat’ which measured to be more or less 25 meters long..

Answer 18

Reports even said that boat # 9, as assigned by the Archeologists
who undertook the excavation of Balanghai in Butuan, has been
considered for now to be the largest boat.

Question 19

The word _________as mentioned in the chronicle of Pigafetta
had been affirmed that there existed a long boat,
through the discovery of buried balanghais in Brgy. Libertad, near
Masao, Butuan City which has not been found in Limasawa.

Answer 19

BALANGHAI

Question 20

“in this island, there is a great quantity of dogs, cats, pigs, fowls, and
goats, rice, ginger, cocos, figs, oranges, lemons, millet, wax, and gold
mines.”

Answer 20

Mazzaua (Masao) Island. Antonio Pigafetta wrote,

Question 21

In the study of _______ (2002) the Manobo, the inhabitants of Agusan valley
(including Butuan – Masao) were engaged in logging. They were loggers. This
will point us back that there once a good forest in Butuan and Masao which
became a materials for their houses and boats (Baloto – Baroto).

Answer 21

ECOBEN

Question 22

Butuan have at least three rivers what are they?

Answer 22

Masao River, Agusan Pequeno River and
the great Agusan river.

Question 23

Who was the king of Zuluan and Calagan.

Answer 23

RAJAH CALAMBU

Question 24

Who was the editor of the book, The Earliest Voyages round the
World (1519-1617), published by Cambridge, University Press in
1916 has this notes; Zuluan and Calagan represent Butuan and
Caraga in north-east of Mindanao (p. 204).

Answer 24

Philip Alexander

Question 25

Surigao derives from Caraga which earlier referred to
as calagan meaning

Answer 25

“land of the brave” or “fierce people”.