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The pro-Mazaua groups are 100% sure and rabid about their contentions that Ferdinand Magellan anchored, landed and held the First Mass on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521 in Mazaua, Butuan, Mindanao. So much so that one of their commissioned historians wrote on Magellan's lost landfall and has been writing, publishing, and blogging about it in the Internet superhighways all over the world. He has been calling the attention of the scholars and other experts globally to stand behind his and the pro-Butuanons' backs. Some of them have criticized and insulted the intelligence of the highly educated staff of the National Historical Institute for "not doing their jobs." Like the talking parrots, they have criticized repeatedly a former First Lady of the Philippines for her so-called pro-Limasawa, Southern Leyte stand. However, the pro-Mazaua groups depended too much on the contradicting notes of the longitude, latitude and other descriptions of Mazzaua Island which Pigafetta, Albo and de Mafra wrote about. The pro-Mazaua groups relied too much on the eye witness accounts of the dead sailors, dead priests, dead historians, dead people, etc. that had insufficient knowledge of sea navigation, coordinates, world cartography, geography, history, and no Global Positioning System (GPS) available during their era of exploration and circumnavigation. They relied too much on their unearth "balanghais" and hundreds of other archaeological artifacts found under Masao or Mazaua in Butuan City. Above all, due to their lack of knowledge, understanding and wisdom on the religious or biblical aspects of Magellan's expedition, exploration and circumnavigation, the pro-Mazaua or Butuan groups failed to decode the science on the "lost day" which the survivors of Magellan's expedition experienced at Cape Verde islands, located off the coast of northwest Africa, after they completed their first circumnavigation on Earth by sailing WESTWARD. Pigafetta logged: "On Wednesday, the ninth of July [1522], we arrived at one of these islands named Santiago, where we immediately sent the boat ashore to obtain provisions. And we charged our men in the boat that, when they were ashore, they should ask what day it was. They were answered that to the Portuguese it was Thursday, at which they were much amazed, for to us it was Wednesday, and we knew not how we had fallen into error. For every day I, being always in health, had written down each day without any intermission. But, as we were told since, there had been no mistake, for we had always made our voyage westward and had returned to the same place of departure as the sun, wherefore the long voyage had brought the gain of twenty-four hours, as is clearly seen." Magellan and his Spanish-funded expedition forces sailed westward from Spain to search for the Spice Islands, which the Portuguese had colonized few years before including the islands in Mindanao - at least one year prior to Magellan's departure from Spain. If Magellan's expedition anchored and landed in Mazaua, Butuan, how come Pigafetta discovered too late about the "lost day" only after he and his fellow survivors had completed the westward circumnavigation and landed in Santiago Island, Cape Verde which was a Portuguese colony? Pigafetta should have known and written about the "lost day" if they anchored and landed in Mazaua, Butuan because the Portuguese had colonized a year earlier and had influenced the natives in Mazaua. (The Portuguese authorities in Butuan erected years later a historical marker to honor Magellan not because of his so-called discovery, but because Magellan was a Portuguese by birth.) The educated natives in Mazaua or Butuan knew about the calendar from their Portuguese colonizers as well as from the Islamic adventurers and explorers who spread their faith from the Middle East to the Southeast. The "Kingdom of Butuan" used the Islamic calendar! The so-called historians, professors, educators, scientists, experts, etc. that supported "Magellan's landfall in Mazaua, Butuan" failed to observe, to learn, to decipher and decode from the clear and easily understandable logbook of Pigafetta on the "lost day." It was similar to having a "Mark of the Beast" in which millions of the "Christians" do not know about! Again, Magellan and his fellow sailors who carried the Spanish flag and their Portuguese counterparts traveled from southwestern Europe in opposite directions. If the Spanish explorers landed in Mazaua, Butuan, Mindanao and spent several days communicating, exchanging gifts, eating and drinking with, observing the "First Mass" on Easter with the natives and erecting the cross, and doing other gestures of friendships, why did Pigafetta notice the "lost day" too late or when he and his fellow survivors had completed the first circumnavigation and had stopped at Cape Verde Islands? Again, Pigafetta observed: "And we charged our men in the boat that, when they were ashore, they should ask what day it was...." They certainly asked the same question on what day it was when they landed in "Mazzaua" island! Let us put it in another way: if Magellan anchored and landed in Mazaua, Butuan and observed "Easter Sunday" on March 31, 1521, the Portuguese-influenced natives in Mazaua or Butuan should have corrected Magellan that the Easter Mass was over with and that very same day was a Monday, April 1, 1521. Or was it the right date? Did they encounter a "twilight zone"? When the Portuguese explored and colonized EASTWARD from Portugal to the demarcation line which included the entire Philippine Islands, they carried with them the same calendar which the Spaniards or Magellan's expedition forces used to explore WESTWARD. Years later, when Magellan and his fellow sailors sailed from Seville, Spain to search for the Spice Islands via the uncharted WEST, at least from the east and southern coasts of the American continent, the Spanish-funded explorers carried with them the same calendar used by the Portuguese who sailed EASTWARD from Portugal, which was and is attached to the much bigger Spanish territory in Western Europe. Since the International Date Line did not exist until 1884, when Magellan landed and had the "First Mass" on Easter Sunday held together with the natives of Mazzaua or presently called Limasawa Island, Pigafetta - Magellan's official chronicler - had to be the first person to observe or notice if there was a wrong date. Maybe they were too excited of the warm hospitality of the natives of Limasawa or Mazzaua Island that Pigafetta forgot to ask the question on what calendar the rajah or "barangay" captain used in the island. It was neither the wrong calendar day-date not until the survivors of Magellan's expedition on board the Victoria sailed across the biblical date line, which started from the Garden of Eden and its imaginary longitudinal line down south through the Indian Ocean and all the way down to Antarctica! Before the turn of the 17th century, the explorers, navigators, colonizers and the other so-called experts, but spiritually blinded, believed that the Sun revolves around the Earth just as 1 in 5 Americans still believe today! For your understanding of the big differences between the Biblical or Hebrew Calendar and Julian or Gregorian Calendar, you should read the article, IDL = a Mark of the Beast . In addition, if you truly want to know the origin on the "First Mass on Easter", you need to read the Catholic encyclopedia. You need to learn why the Church started observing Sunday instead of the original seventh-day Sabbath, which the Holy Bible described as the 7th Day of the week. One church minister will reward you $1 million (U.S.) if you can find a verse in the Old or New Testament Bible which said Elohim or God commanded Mankind to observe the first day - Sunday - as the holy day of the week instead of the seventh day - Saturday!Since the Portuguese colonizers in Mindanao did not colonize Limasawa or the old name Mazzaua which is an island town in Southern Leyte, when Magellan, Pigafetta, Albo, del Cano, Valderama, and the other Spanish-flag bearing sailors landed in Mazzaua Island, Pigafetta did not write about the discrepancy regarding the "lost day." They were in Mazzaua island but the very important calendar question was not mentioned in any of the sailors-writers who explored with Magellan. The calendar used by the educated inhabitants, either in Homonhon (or from its nearby island who came to see Magellan), Limasawa, Cebu, Mactan, Palawan or other islands in which they landed on including the Spice Islands, had to be free from the influence of the Portuguese colonizers who sailed EASTWARD from Portugal to Mindanao via Indonesia, and the Islamic explorers or believers who explored and spread their faith in Mindanao including the "Kingdom of Butuan" centuries earlier. Therefore, the Spanish-financed Magellan and his fellow sailors in the flagship Trinidad and those in 2 other sailing ships, the Concepcion and Victoria, anchored, landed and observed the "First Mass" on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521 in an island called as Mazzaua which is now part of Southern Leyte and/or Region 8! Let us stop the arguments or debates on Magellan's exact location of the Philippines' "First Mass" on Easter. Easter is a pagan festival or event which originated from Babylon or Iraq few thousand years before the actual birth of Jesus Christ! The world's popular churches and congregations teach and practice the pagan Easter sunrise service as if it were a biblical fact. At the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the priests, pastors or ministers of the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, and Protestant churches always hold their combined Easter Sunrise services. The so-called important historical debates cannot provide the drastic needs for our fellow 100 million plus Filipinos. Let us stop the arguments! Bear in mind that Magellan studied Columbus' achievements before he and his fellow explorers risked their own lives to search for the Spice Islands via the uncharted west. He and his troops accidentally ended down in the Philippines where Lapu-lapu killed the unfortunate Magellan, and some other fellow sailors of Magellan on the shore of Mactan Island, located over one kilometer east of Cebu. Let us learn from Columbus' re-discovery of America: "The first place Christopher Columbus landed when he came to the New World in 1492 was an island of the Bahamas. Columbus claimed the island for Spain and named it San Salvador. Historians are not sure which island Columbus landed, but they think it may have been present-day San Salvador (formerly Watling Island) or Samana Cay." Although Columbus had explored the Caribbeans 4 times in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502, there are proponents for 7 other possible landing sites as to where exactly Columbus and his troops first anchored and landed during their 1492 voyage to the Caribbean Islands! For the sake of unity to our country's diverse Christian denominations, for the sake of the independent Christian groups and other religious organizations and institutions, for the sake of the tourism and hospitality industries, and for the sake and success of the coming 500th "First Mass" Anniversary Celebration on March 31, 2021, we Filipinos need to get rid of the terminology "First Mass" on Easter, which again is pagan in origin. Instead the right and proper description of the historical and religious events, which occurred during the expedition, exploration and circumnavigation, should have been "Magellan's introduction of Christianity" in Homonhon, Limasawa, Cebu and few of the 7107 other islands in the Philippines!
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