Why did I come to the island in the first place? I asked myself. Limasawa, the smallest municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, is popularly known as the site of the 1521 Easter Sunday ...

The celebration is part of the yearlong commemoration of the 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines and the opening of the “Jubilee Door” in Shrine of the Holy Cross and the First Mass on ...

CHRISTIANITY TAKING ROOT An artist’s rendition of the first Mass in the Philippines, from the book “The Encounter” by Fr. Jose Vicente Braganza, depicts the planting of the cross on Limasawa ...

While Limasawa is the site of the first Mass, other religious denominations also thrive on the island. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s 2015 data showed that members of other religious ...

The other is the Island Lagoon on Limasawa’s northernmost ... Leyte-based historian Rolando Borrinaga has examined the site and reckoned that the planting of the cross on March 31, 1521, was done in ...

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 ...