Reexamining Pigafetta’s Battle of Mactan
By Trizer D. Mansueto
Had it not been for Antonio Pigafetta, the ethnographer, people would know very little about explorer Ferdinand Magellan and the world’s first successful circumnavigation.
Had it not been for Antonio Pigafetta, the ethnographer, people would know very little about explorer Ferdinand Magellan and the world’s first successful circumnavigation.
It wasn’t funny. Mayor Paz Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City has demanded an apology from the makers of a brand of disposable diaper to pull out their television advertisement that mocked the historic Battle of Mactan.
With just a few days of catechism, which consisted mostly of rhetorical remarks by Ferdinand Magellan, it would have been impossible for King Humabon and the people of Cebu during his time to have fully understood the Christian faith brought to them by the Spaniards in 1521.
There is little doubt that Humabon’s wife, who had days before been christened Juana, had been gifted by Magellan with the image of the Sto. Niño with the admonition to destroy all the idols and the shrines that were lining the seashore. This fact is undisputed in Relazione del Primo Viaggio Intorno al Mondo (Account [...]
From peasants to Presidents, those who have faith come to venerate it. Encased in glass in a side chapel, the four-century-old wooden image of the Sto. Niño de Cebu draws the most number of visitors in the days leading to its feast day, which falls this year on Sunday, Jan. 15. A question that recurs [...]
A historic wooden bust of the suffering Jesus Christ is coming home to Cebu. The Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) decided to return the four century-old image to the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño in downtown Cebu City where it was kept from 1572 to 1965. “This is the third most important icon here in [...]
On Aug. 10, 1519, Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet of five small ships left Seville, Spain and travelled through the Guadalquivir River, reaching its mouth at San Lucar de Barrameda, there to stay for five weeks.
