New book asserts Mazaua Island in Butuan true site of first Holy Mass in the Philippines

By The Manila Times

Jan 07, 2021 12:05 am

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 island of Limasawa in the southern tip of Leyte in the Visayas.

[caption id='attachment_823957' width='188'] Fr. Joesilo Amalla CONTRIBUTED PHOTO[/caption]

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