THE Catholic Church marks 2021 as a great jubilee year, a fitting celebration of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. All parishes will formally open the year-long celebration on April 4, 2021, Easter Sunday. Pope Francis himself will officiate a mass at 5 p.m. on March 14, 2021 (Philippine time) at the Vatican to honor this occasion.
The Vatican Mass falls on about the same day that Ferdinand Magellan landed on Homonhon Island in what is now part of the province of Eastern Samar on March 16, 1521. History credits Magellan (aka Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese, his nationality; or Fernando de Magallanes in Spanish) the unique feat of having organized the first successful circumnavigation of the earth.
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