BUTUAN CITY, Philippines — As ... In 1872, a monument commemorating the first mass in the Philippines was erected near the mouth of Agusan River in Barangay Baug or what today is known as ...

This is in reference to the article “Limasawa, not Butuan, affirmed as site of first Mass in PH” (8/21/20). At the outset, let me point out that the members of the Mojares panel, who rendered their ...

Important to note is that in 1581, Domingo de Salazar, the first Bishop of the Philippines, declared Butuan as the site of the Easter Mass on March 31, 1521 based on the Julian calendar or April 8 ...

A priest claims he has new evidence to correct an inaccuracy in the history of the origins of Christianity in the Philippines. Father Joesilo Amalla, curator of Butuan Diocesan Liturgical Museum, ...

CEBU CITY — Eight months before the 500th anniversary of the “first” Mass in the country, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has determined that Portuguese ...

In Butuan, there was also a group called “Folks of Magallanes” that celebrated the Easter Mass for 300 years until 2000 at the Carballo Monument. The date of the Mass was on April 8, 1521 ...

ON Dec. 12, 2018, the Resil Mojares panel of the National Quincentennial Committee that will look at the new data being presented to recognize old Butuan (Magallanes town) as the site of the Easter ...

A new history book published by a Catholic priest asserts that the lost island of Mazaua Island in Butuan in Mindanao was where the first Holy Mass in the Philippines was celebrated and not in the ...

The spoiler for today’s commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the first Easter Mass in Limasawa are the advocates who stubbornly insist that it was actually held in Butuan. It seems we are far ...

The Philippine government earlier issued a declaration that the first Mass was held on Limasawa Island, but some historians like de Jesus still dispute this. Other possible sites include the village ...