Butuan marks 487th anniversary of ‘First Mass’
BUTUAN CITY – With more scientific evidence to prove that the first-ever Catholic Mass in Philippine soil did happen here 487 years ago, historians, the private sector and the city government commemorate it today at the Buod promontory.
A giant cross was built here to mark the first Mass officiated by Fr. Pedro Valderrama, chaplain of the Spanish expedition team headed by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, on
This August, the National Historical Institute will reopen the case lodged by the
From the 17th to the 19th century, foreign historians, particularly from
A local historian, Hontiveros authored two books – “Butuan in Thousand Years,” published in 2004, and “A Fire on the
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